Month: December 2016
Plough Magazine: The Hole in Wendell Berry’s Gospel
This critique is common enough but a bit wrong-headed in my opinion:
Demonic Rapaciousness
Moore on how capitalism and cultural decadence reinforce each other:
Losing a Majority Mindset
I’m not entirely happy with this approach from Russell Moore, but I think the quote sums up much of the good and bad in what I take to be his major project: The loss of a majority mind-set is hastened...
Tradition Doesn’t Solve the Problem of Christian Unity
Philip Schaff on how appeals to tradition, contra the supposedly divisive and schismatic principle of sola scriptura, doesn’t actually do what its proponents think it does:
Hauerwas on the Politics of Sex
Hauerwas from “Sex in Public” (in which he gives the theological ethics version of Berry’s “Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community”):
Religion Makes the Music Sweeter
Thomas Watson on Christians and cheerfulness:
I Want to be a Burden
This excerpt from Gilbert Meilaender is gold: