Have any of you experienced church burnout? How did you deal with that?
Have any of you experienced church burnout? How did you deal with that?
Dorothy L. Sayers was a Christian apologist, a great translator and guide to Dante, and a pioneering mystery novelist. Nadya Williams has written a fascinating essay about Sayers and her vocational struggles, including reflections on scholarship in academia as opposed to the scholarship of "public intellectuals."
As I was trying to think through the doctrine of the Two Kingdoms and the competing schools of conservatism, Anthony Sacramone alerted me to an interview he did with Rev. Dr. Gregory Seltz, the head of the Lutheran Center for Religious Liberty. He warns against the expansion of government into nearly every area of life and its use of coercive power to force Christians to comply with its moral dictates even when they violate Christian teaching.
Jacob Howland has written a searing critique of our times entitled "America is now a zombie state." What that means, the implications of our current nihilism, and the only way to bring back life and vitality.
Successes in combating porn, voters in red states still want abortion, and U. S. bonds get downgraded.
A former high-level intelligence official told a congressional committee that he has classified evidence that the government has retrieved material and "biologic" remains from UFOs. Whether he was perjuring himself (which can easily be checked) or telling the truth, the implications are extraordinary.
Ron DeSantis has been attacking Donald Trump from the right, saying that Trump is too liberal on abortion, COVID, the LGBTQ+ cause, and the woke agenda. Other candidates are more pro-war and pro-corporations than Trump is. Could it be that Trump is actually the moderate in this race?
David Brooks takes to task his fellow Ivy League-educated professionals who have formed a new ruling class in America. But he seems to share the assumption that what we have in our current ruling class is, in fact, a "meritocracy." I question that.
David Brooks has created a stir with a NYT column entitled "What If We're the Bad Guys Here?" Acknowledging as his social class must that Trump is horrible, he raises the possibility that his fellow Ivy League-educated elite professionals may be to blame for Trump's popularity.
We've blogged about "National Conservativism" and its manifesto. Now the other kind of conservatism, the strain still committed to personal liberty and free market economics, has a manifesto and a catchy name: Freedom Conservatism.
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