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Lila Rose and Nancy Pelosi go to the same church
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/losing-faith-in-atheism Excerpts from an upcoming book. It’s a good piece. The path he shares with us is not unfamiliar. I’veheard many renditions of this. He’s a good writer so its moreskillfully articulated. I thought the “romantic idealism” section was particularly … Continue reading
The New Metagelical elites and Christian Education
The Christian education thread is fascinating and I think haseverything to do with the transformations in the CRC through Synods2022 to 2025. 1. The CRC has followed the broader trend (see Ryan Burge on Catholicclergy who would and wouldn’t officiate … Continue reading
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Today’s real conservatives
Ryrie opens up his book with Bonhoeffer who suggests that part of what led to the invisibility of religion and the obsession with the political was the inability of the church to prevent the Holocaust. We are proceeding towards a … Continue reading
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Midwestuary 2025 Reviews
https://roddreher.substack.com/p/fish-who-know-what-water-is https://roddreher.substack.com/p/first-thoughts-after-midwestuary https://jimfield.substack.com/p/the-estuary-effect https://jimfield.substack.com/p/notes-from-midwestuary https://morefullyalive.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-across-deep-divides https://terimurphybothworlds.substack.com/p/midwestuary-2025-part-4-three-magic https://www.furtherup.net/p/the-conference-of-misfit-souls https://www.rigelthurston.com/p/gargoyles-at-the-belongapocalypse https://substack.com/home/post/p-171515304
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PVK’s plan for Rebuilding the CRCNA
Sea change, vibe shift… Whatever you want to call it. It’s done. It’s time to start building the next CRCNA. If we don’t then it’s done. I still think the CRCNA has a lot to offer the North American church. It’s … Continue reading
The Banner seeing itself
https://www.thebanner.org/columns/2020/05/the-banner-s-mission-and-role-part-1 https://www.thebanner.org/columns/2018/02/mirror-and-forum https://www.thebanner.org/columns/2020/06/the-banner-s-mission-part-3-vision-values Part 2 is missing. https://web.archive.org/web/20200726135227/https://www.thebanner.org/columns/2020/06/the-banner-s-mission-part-2-editorial-guidelines
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To Banner or NOT to Banner, that is the question
The Banner shifted with Kuyvenhoven and this was the shift now referred to as the “post-war consensus”. The name is imperfect but the dynamics are quite evident. Everyone felt the cultural shift, the last major vibe shift before this one … Continue reading