Introduction: While some might want me to begin today's installment by avowing that the November goal is not to attack everybody—as though I were trying to start a Reformed version of Festivus ...
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My 360° Whiteness Review
Make Definitions Great Again
Introduction In order for us to navigate the next nine miles of bad road gracefully, one of the things we are going to have to do is learn how to work with stipulated definitions. There is a big difference between a word or phrase used in a specific way by someone who is careful to …
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Exhortation for Knox Presbytery 2022
The background for this exhortation is a proposed memorial we will be considering later on, but the general relevance of this exhortation is very much fitted to the times in which we find ourselves. These are the times in which our secularist overlords are striving to impose a humanist cultural homogenization on the entire planet, …
On Shaking Off the Christian Nationalism JimJams
Introduction: Let us review the options, shall we? Christian nationalism is the current hot topic, and when confronted with the current hot topic, every sensible person always wants to dip ...
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Drag Queens Twerking in the School Library
Introduction: One of the most marked features of our current cultural crack-up has been the disintegration of public trust when it comes to many of our central institutions. The collapse of trust ...
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Christian Nationalism and the Nation State, Part 1
Introduction: The fact of my ongoing dispute with kinists, and it is in fact an ongoing dispute, does not mean that they cannot mount any legitimate points or raise legitimate questions. They can, ...
Brain Glitch and Correction
Important correction: In a couple of responses to the Meet the Press segment, I responded to a comment by Brandy Sullivan on how our candidates were roundly defeated in the last couple of city council elections. In effect, I responded by saying that we didn’t have any candidates running, and so there. But I was …
A Nest of Asian Murder Hornets Mistaken for a Piñata
Whenever something like this Meet the Press thing happens, all kinds of thoughts crowd into my head unbidden. And while one must always keep in mind that trenchant observation of Wodehouse, which is that some minds are like the soup in a bad restaurant, better left unstirred, it remains the case that other things simply …
NBC News Lends a Hand
Judging from my Twitter feed, many of you saw the segment on Moscow and Christ Church that Meet the Press did. As I have said elsewhere, I am grateful that it was not a hit piece—they let both sides talk, in other words. It was even-handed in that way. At the same time, it was …
A Brief Scattershot Primer on Christian Nationalism
We should begin with the recognition that naming is warfare. In any cultural collision, each group wants to name the other one, and each group wants to prevent the other group from taking that name and turning it around to be used in a less pejorative sense, or even in a positive sense. Methodist and …
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