Bold Christian Writing Our Calendar Is Killing Us Guest Post, January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 Share this:The Crisis of the Common Era by John Heers, First Things Foundation What is time? It’s weird, right? If you think of time you inevitably start to think of aging and movement, a passing, a thing that is going “forward” and something that catches up. Most of us think of… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing The Tyranny of Enlightened Freedom Guest Post, December 29, 2023December 29, 2023 Share this:Dostoevsky vs the World by John Heers, First Things Foundation Freedom is a hard thing. It can be confusing. It is essential to the understanding of both law and love. It presents itself as both a means to an end and as an end itself. It seems to be everything… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Divining the Dream Machine: Part 3 Guest Post, December 19, 2023December 19, 2023 Share this:Science-Fiction, Hollywood, and the Technology of Antichrist by Thomas Millary Weston’s Evolving Worldview The worldview of sci-fi has spilled out from fiction into pop-intellectualism from the beginning. Father of the genre HG Wells was also a social critic, whose books such as The Open Conspiracy and The New World Order… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Divining the Dream Machine: Part 2 Guest Post, December 18, 2023December 19, 2023 Share this:Science-Fiction, Hollywood, and the Technology of Antichrist by Thomas Millary “The Art of Dreaming” After decades of obsession with movies and pop-culture, Jasun Horsley realized that Hollywood is hell. His book “16 Maps of Hell: The Unraveling of Hollywood Superculture” documents numerous case studies of disturbing figures and events within… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing What Is Capitalism? Guest Post, December 11, 2023December 28, 2023 Share this:The Binding New World Ligament by John Heers, First Things Foundation Most people in the world accept the idea that capitalism is an economic system. For most people capitalism is a thing you use, a system in which you participate so as to gain benefits associated with money. Most people… Continue Reading
Christian Living Confessions of a Steward — Honest Horse Keeping Guest Post, December 8, 2023 Share this:by Joel Salatin, Plain Values I don’t own a horse. I don’t keep a horse. That’s precisely why I’m qualified to address the issue—I don’t have preconceived notions about keeping horses. I have thought and yakked about it quite a bit, though, because one of the most common questions people… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Mythologizing Modernity Guest Post, December 5, 2023 Share this:The cosmic tale goes ever on by The Saxon Cross History is dead. Or, so I was told. For a long time, I believed it. Not because I wanted to, but I could see the world around me. It was plain as day that I did not live in the… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Re-Considering Doug Wilson’s “Covenant with Hagar” Part 2 Guest Post, December 4, 2023December 4, 2023 Share this:by Gabe Harder Defining the Covenant To this point, it should be clear that the “covenant with Hagar” is key to Wilson’s brand of soft supersessionism. What’s equally clear, however, is that this particular covenantal arrangement evades precise definition, and what elements have been made plain at times appear entirely… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Re-Considering Doug Wilson’s “Covenant with Hagar” Part 1 Guest Post, December 1, 2023December 1, 2023 Share this:by Gabe Harder Introduction Doug Wilson’s “American Milk and Honey” is now available. There’s a great deal in the book worth commenting on, and I anticipate engaging with that material more broadly in the near future. In the lead-up to its release, however, Moscow has not been silent concerning Israel,… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Ireland’s Quest for Identity Guest Post, November 30, 2023November 30, 2023 Share this:Alienism, Violence, and Power. by The Prudentialist Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald said that the stabbing that occurred in Dublin is “just a shocking, unexpected, random incident” as protests and fires were started in reaction to an Algerian Migrant knife attack outside of Gaelscoil Colaiste Mhuire, a school for… Continue Reading
Bold Christian Writing Divining the Dream Machine: Part 1 Guest Post, November 27, 2023December 19, 2023 Share this:Science-Fiction, Hollywood, and the Technology of Antichrist by Thomas Millary Sci-Fi and False Signs In his seminal work, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, Fr. Seraphim Rose condemned “the spirit of science fiction.”1 His critique of that literary genre is found within the chapter “Signs from Heaven: An Orthodox… Continue Reading
Christian Living The Healing Land — Apples Guest Post, November 27, 2023November 28, 2023 Share this:by Shawn and Beth Dougherty, Plain Values A PLENTIFUL HARVEST The new apple trees in the orchard are bearing well this year, with russet and yellow-green fruit studding the young branches. In the convent orchard, some of the older trees are taking a sabbatical year. They will only produce a… Continue Reading