“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.” -Margaret Thatcher. Strauss explains how liberalism underestimates people and God, and why people want more from our life together than that for which liberalism allows.
Russ Kuykendall writes about “showing up” in the public square, and the tradition of Christian political thought that is available as a rich resource to those who do show up.
Liberalism is a powerful cultural force that protects individuals and human rights, but hangs marriages and families out with the rest of the laundry. It banishes historical religious convictions, only to promote its own faith-in-reason structures instead. How does one go about living under the influence of such idolatry?
How do we live godly lives in a society in which everyone is free to reject Christ in every sphere? Although we should involve ourselves in, for example, politics, may we use the institution to promote our faith? Doug Bandow emphasizes faithfulness over success.
An artist invites viewers to a gallery exhibition, where he cooks and feeds them satay skewers and spring rolls. Another artist invites participants to stake wishes and prayers to a wooden beam in his living room. In both cases, relationships are being produced…
This generation must be about understanding and addressing foundational things, lest they be lost to future generations. Today, Comment reviews Rod Dreher’s programme (Crunchy Cons, 2006) for framing both private and public life.
Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek and George Lucas’s Star Wars trilogy-plus are both examples of the power of a genre to draw an audience. Is sci-fi nothing more than tickling the fancy?
What does “baptism” mean amidst the false realities of universal “whiteness”, into which all others must enter? Take the red pill, and reframe the issue of identity. Professor J. Kameron Carter teaches courses in theology and black church studies at Duke University Divinity School.
An example of unpersuasive Christianity comes from Albert Raboteau, who reports on a white missionary’s difficulty in witnessing to recently freed slaves: “…the freedmen’s distaste for moralistic preaching was directly rooted in their experience of the dichotomy between Christianity and the practice of Christian slaveholders.”
As unidealistic and undemocratic as it sounds, the reality is that social change is as much an elite as it is a grassroots endeavour, and without the acquisition of democratic values and tastes on the part of various elites, the achievement of desired objectives will prove difficult.
Against AI’s forces of privation.
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