{"id":54922,"date":"2014-09-23T00:11:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=54922"},"modified":"2014-12-28T21:06:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T04:06:32","slug":"the-imaginative-conservative-is-such-a-refreshing-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/09\/the-imaginative-conservative-is-such-a-refreshing-contrast.html","title":{"rendered":"The Imaginative Conservative is such a refreshing contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026to the Thing that Used to be Conservatism.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a piece by the inimitable Brad Birzer on the Conservative Humanist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a piece on Tolkien\u2019s Imagination of the Good<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a piece on the feminism of B16<\/a>: <\/p>\n

One of the greatest lies propagated by Western liberal media is that Pope Benedict XVI was a crusty old miser and \u201cpatriarchal\u201d figure who upheld ideas and practices demeaning to women. This lie is, of course, most harmful to women, who\u2014in Benedict XVI\u2014had an advocate unlike any Pope in recent history. Nothing could be further from the truth than to accuse Benedict XVI of being an \u201cenemy\u201d of women. In fact, he was the Catholic Church\u2019s greatest feminist. No greater testimony to Benedict XVI\u2019s feminism exists than his inspiring Holy Women, a collection of his speeches on the mystical mistresses of the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here\u2019s a beautiful eulogy by David Schindler to the late great Stratford Caldecott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026to the Thing that Used to be Conservatism. Here\u2019s a piece by the inimitable Brad Birzer on the Conservative Humanist. Here\u2019s a piece on Tolkien\u2019s Imagination of the Good. Here\u2019s a piece on the feminism of B16: One of the greatest lies propagated by Western liberal media is that Pope Benedict XVI was a crusty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-54922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-good-things"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Imaginative Conservative is such a refreshing contrast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"...to the Thing that Used to be Conservatism. Here's a piece by the inimitable Brad Birzer on the Conservative Humanist. 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