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Politics & Government

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The Stump Speech Becomes Secularism’s Sermon

Flattery, politics, & the search for power
  • rah
  • October 13, 2022
And yet, there is cause to think that this unbelief has become the very ground of a new positive consensus. It entails the unavoidably moral and religious inclinations that have always belonged to man, but attaches to them the kind of political and sociological expressions that Bottum describes in his book.
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Syrian Religion in Ancient China

Syncretism & religious aspiration
  • rah
  • October 12, 2022
The human mind is such that it needs and seeks forms for its heartfelt expressions; even so, the human heart is such that it will too easily justify false forms for their purported service to truth.
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Power, Privilege, & Potluck Dinners

A simple meal as the unlikely demonstration of the gospel's power
  • rah
  • November 5, 2021
In capitals all around the world, men devise many means to encourage or impose even the most tenable of unities. Against these efforts are raised the schemes of still other clever men, attempting another new unity to replace the last. The church is to stand outside the circle of these efforts, preaching a gospel that displays a different kind of power.
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Screaming at the Stars

John Newton on political anxiety
  • rah
  • May 22, 2020
"As it is, his zeal is not only unprofitable to others, but hurtful to himself. It embitters his spirit, it diverts his thoughts from other things of greater importance, and prevents him from feeling the values of those blessings, civil and religious, which he actually possesses..."
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