Genesis: Head & Heel
SOUL: And all my care itself employs; That to preserve which me destroys. BODY: What but a soul could have the wit To build me up for sin so fit?… Read more Genesis: Head & Heel →
Footnote to Pignoli and Porn Stars
We have seen in the conservative tradition a tension between abstraction and context, or definition and circumstance, which perhaps has its foundation in the lateralization of the brain. Abstraction has… Read more Footnote to Pignoli and Porn Stars →
Of Pignoli and Porn Stars: Conservatism and the Body
When I learned that Turning Point USA had ejected an electronic sex worker from one of its events, I expected to hear that she had then and there so energetically… Read more Of Pignoli and Porn Stars: Conservatism and the Body →
Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part IX
In 1964, Marshall McLuhan taunted Marxists for paying insufficient attention to words: “Wedded as they are to nineteenth-century industrial technology as the basis of class liberation, nothing could be more… Read more Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part IX →
Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part VIII
In Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe, Voddie Baucham condemns evangelical sympathy for Critical Race Theory while professing a fundamentalist understanding of “the sufficiency of Scripture”… Read more Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part VIII →
Woke Smoke
Weed brings people together, you know? “When you meet a new friend in the weed scene, you can bet that the two of you will share many of the same… Read more Woke Smoke →
Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part VII
Fundamentalism refuses ambivalence and complexity, denying that its doctrine may be modified by the evidence of science, or of the senses, and classifying individuals as wholly good or evil, elect… Read more Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part VII →
Some Men They Follow After
The discovery that celebrated apologist Ravi Zacharias was a predatory fraud has occasioned much hand-wringing among the American Church. The lesson most commonly drawn seems to be that individual Christians… Read more Some Men They Follow After →