Husband, father, slave of Christ. Reader and writer. Occasional gentleman. Palatable. TW: Posts may contain views compatible with orthodox Christianity.
The Apostles’ Creed, not an apostate screed!
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“A Christian should love his children over other children, his parents over other parents, his kin over other kin, his nation over other nations.”
—Stephen Wolfe (
@PerfInjust
)
I'm honestly confused about this purity culture pushback. What am I supposed to teach my teenage son? Go find impure women and do impure things with them?
One of my favorite memories is of a Sabbath dinner in Moscow, Idaho, when my wife told Doug Wilson *to his face* that she teaches Christian yoga classes at our church back home. He went scorched earth on her, questioned both her faith and her modesty, condemned our church as
@BrandonSiwula
@Stephen_Angliss
Counterpoint: It was tried, worked marvelously, and we should go back to it. We’re living in its rubble, and it’s still amazing.
@PerfInjust
IMO, this is like saying that a Christian man should love his own wife over other women, or a Christian woman her own husband over other men. Whether that holds up across other categories can be debated, but at least on the spouse/child/family level, it seems unobjectionable.
In terms of nations: I love America more than Denmark, and I think this is natural and good. Similarly, I think it is natural and good for a Dane to love Denmark more than she loves America. (And if it’s not natural and good, I’m not sure it’s especially offensive or concerning.)
“Abortion is the Antichrist’s demonic parody of the Eucharist. That’s why it uses the same holy words, ‘This is my body,’ with the blasphemously opposite meaning.”
—Peter Kreeft
@stephenaltrogge
The children's program at our previous church taught the kids that Jesus turned water into "super-fancy party drink." That's one of the reasons we left.
@drantbradley
Is it fair to call it “trashing,” though? He simply says they’re being identified on one side of the fault line and that most of them don’t do so because they embrace CRT but out of “a desire to fight what they see as a problem of racial injustice.” Seems pretty tame to me.
I'm thrilled to see that
@canonpress
is publishing a new edition of "The Things of Earth" by
@joe_rigney
. Few books have impacted my life and faith as much as this one has. It changed the way I think, see, live, believe, and enjoy. Read it!
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Publisher's description:
The
@NeilShenvi
If you give it a couple generations to desensitize people to legal toddler-killing, I bet you'd see a certain type of Christian making *exactly* that argument.
Ministry friends:
Hope College (a private, Christian liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan) is hiring a new Dean of Chapel. This is a unique place – historically Dutch Reformed roots, now broadly (and genuinely, I think) ecumenical, with a vibrant campus ministries program:
I dunno,
@kkdumez
, this sounds pretty good to me:
“… you must repent and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. We don’t care about your race, ethnic background, or your past sins because neither does Jesus. We only care that you wholeheartedly repent and follow Him…
Guys, this book isn’t just bad, it’s bad at being bad. What is this, like 16 pt font? At 132 pp, it’s essentially a glorified pamphlet. Opened up to a random page and found a typo. What a brilliant scam.
“What is it actually all for? If you don’t answer that question, ‘It’s for the sake of Christ and his kingdom’ — if you answer it in any other way, you are in the process of being conquered and colonized by another god.”
—
@The_Kings_Hall
I’m reading
@AndyNaselli
’s “How to Read a Book” from
@canonpress
(okay, fine, I’m listening to it — but Naselli says that’s reading), and his advice about reading at three different levels (survey, macro, and micro) is sort of blowing my mind.
Read a book without deeply reading
For those of you who use or advocate for real wine in the Eucharist, how do you respond to the argument that real wine would be a stumbling block to alcoholics?
“Everywhere we look, from small companies to large corporations, from science to sports, from education to entertainment, we are witnessing the breakneck speed of culturally accepted racism currently spelled C-R-T.”
—
@VirgilWlkrOMAHA
,
@podcast_just
@roddreher
Just spent a week in Texas visiting the in-laws, including a sunrise Easter service at a National Historic Site; it felt strangely subversive to celebrate on federal land.
The gentleman who read scripture from the KJV didn't have the faintest idea how to pronounce sepulchre
Can I ask for your prayers? My wife, Becca, has epilepsy and chronic pain that we suspect is related to her seizures. She’s really struggling today, and we’d appreciate prayers for her healing and hope.
I just finished
#ByWhatStandard
from
@FoundersMin
— a truly remarkable film! It strengthened my resolve for the gospel of Christ, and I pray it serves as an emetic for those who have, even if with good intentions, unwittingly swallowed critical theory.
@tomascol
@Chocolate_Knox
Come, men of Christ, be strong!
Stand firm, and hold your ground.
Take courage: Though the battle’s long,
The Victor has been crowned.
Advance the cause of Christ!
Once more unto the breach!
Make sharp your swords and join the fight,
For triumph is in reach.
AD 2173. The first Protestant cathedral in Holland, Michigan, is completed.
It’s been 150 years since the local Dutch Reformed churches unapologetically returned to their culture-making heritage that first built the region in the late 1800s, recommitting to the Rev. Albertus C.
The Christian manosphere, if that’s what you want to call it, has been incredibly helpful to me. I’ve become healthier (stronger and fitter), more productive, a better leader of my family, a better husband and father, and a godlier man — thanks in large part to the encouragement
I still think the RDJ/Jude Law movies are the best film adaptations of Sherlock Holmes available. They get a lot right that others get wrong: Holmes was a man of action *and* intelligence; Watson was not a fat, slow sidekick. I think they get the spirit of the stories exactly
I really can’t express how pleased and honored I am to be a graduate student at
@NewSaintAndrews
College. This place isn’t just the future of Christian education — it will be the future, Lord willing, of Christendom and the West.
I came home on my lunch break to learn that my evening plans have just been shanghaied by
@canonpress
. If you need me, you’ll have to wait until I’m done learning how to rebuild the West.
@AaronOKelley
I’m reminded of Doug Wilson’s quote: “Desperate times call for faithful men and not for careful men. The careful men come later and write the biographies of the faithful men, lauding them for their courage.” We have lots of careful men who laud Schaeffer, but not many Schaeffers.
Asking for advice on daily prayer.
I’ve spent most of my faith in the liturgical wastelands of nondenominational Evangelicalism, but I’m more and more drawn to some of the forms and practices of the historical church. For several years, I’ve been experimenting with the practice
Here’s an idea I might develop into an essay: call it The Ransom Option. Saint Anne’s-on-the-Hill as a model for contemporary resistance. If we’re facing Belbury and the N.I.C.E. (and we are — call it the Regime or the Machine or whatever), then it seems St Anne’s would be worth
@j_rhett
Teaching young men skills is often the best way to inculcate masculine virtues, even if the skills aren’t immediately relevant. The point isn’t the skill, it’s the virtue. Although I do wish I knew at least 80 percent of these things.
@spanglermt
Lewis on magic:
“The fact that the scientist has succeeded where the magician failed has put such a wide contrast between them in popular thought that the real story of the birth of Science is misunderstood. You will even find people who write about the sixteenth century as if
Lunching on my back deck with some Sleepy Hollow in my Peterson while reading
@tlloydcline
and
@cphumphrey
on building a network of fortresses in the Negative World in
@AmReformer
.