Category: Culture War
More on Sex After Christianity
About a month ago I lit a bunch of stuff on fire and then grabbed some popcorn and set up a lawn chair to watch what would happen. The next day, even as the embers were still glowing a little, I...
On David Gushee’s Dishonesty
Earlier this week David Gushee continued his sad decline with a cowardly piece for Religion News Service. It’s all par for the course for progressive evangelicals like Gushee, of course, which is why I’m generally not too bothered by what they say....
Recovering our Confidence: Four Theses on Social Conservatism (#4)
Note from Jake: This is the final post in Matt’s social conservatism series published in 2012 which we are re-publishing this week. Post 1, Post 2, Post 3 One of my underlying themes through this week has been the current...
Recover Intellectual Creativity: Four Theses on Social Conservatism (#3)
Note from Jake: This is part three of Matt’s series on social conservatism from the fall of 2012 which we are re-publishing this week. Part 1, Part 2 Let’s start today with a detour through David Brooks’ column from this...
End the Hostilities Against Elites: Four Theses on Social Conservatism (#2)
Note from Jake: We are re-publishing Matt’s old series from the fall of 2012 on social conservatism: Part 1 Thesis: For social conservatism to thrive, it needs to end its hostility toward elite institutions that are currently opposed to it....
Idylls of the Right
This guest post is by Matthew Mellema. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The rise of Donald Trump has me...
Responding to Alan Jacobs on the Benedict Option
Alan Jacobs has some very good questions for critics of the Benedict Option, and at the risk of possibly digging myself into a deeper hole with yet another BenOp post I would like to offer some answers. My only grounds...
The Culture War Is Interested in You
Last summer, David Brooks wrote that the social conflicts “oriented around the Sexual revolution” were over. Legal same-sex marriage and the declining influence of traditional Christianity had combined, he wrote, to put the goals of the culture wars of the last few decades out...
Evangelicalism After Trump: The religious left isn’t a solution.
Ruth Graham’s latest in Slate is, to the surprise of no one who reads her regularly, a well-done, interesting take on the future of American Christianity. You should read the whole thing, but the excerpts below gets at the key...
Boycotts and the End of Neighborliness
It’s happening again: Someone did something bad and now other people are threatening not to do business with them. But in this case the target for the boycott is not Starbucks or Chick-fil-a or JC Penney or Forever 21; it’s...