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Category: Evangelicalism

With doctrine and church attendance.

Sunday reflections

  1. Ruining The Liar’s day
  2. Nominalism strikes home
  3. Cherry-picking the cork board
  4. Working definition of “fundamentalist”
  5. Paradise and Utopia
  6. Usefully irritated
  7. The Marble Machine Orchestra
  8. Swearing off Trump rants

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readerjohn Evangelicalism, History, Journalism, Miscellany, Nominalism and Realism, Orthodoxy July 23, 2017 7 Minutes

Grab Bag 7/17/17

  1. W.H. Auden
  2. Trump update
  3. Even a blind pig …
  4. Another “this stuff” you “can’t make up”
  5. Their only humiliation
  6. Pseudo-scholarship showdown
  7. Nice turns of phrase

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readerjohn Civil Religion, Demographics, Evangelicalism, Gaying away the Pray, grievance mongering, Patriotic Correctness, Poetry, Political Matters, Science, Sexualia, Sundry flakes July 17, 2017 6 Minutes

Trump & Russia

  1. Trump and Russia
  2. Eugene Peterson
  3. Esther in a Miley Cyrus World
  4. Self-designated lebensunwertes leben
  5. The pervasiveness of internet smut

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readerjohn Evangelicalism, Protestantism, Russia, Sexualia, Technology July 14, 2017 9 Minutes

Mélange 7/6/17

  1. Wretched excess in America
  2. Due process banished from campus
  3. The Return of Angelism
  4. Race and IQ

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readerjohn Evangelicalism, Faith & Ideology, Food, Gnosticism, Justice, Legalia, Natural Law, Patriotic Correctness, Political Matters, progressivism, Sexualia, Sport, Sundry flakes July 6, 2017July 5, 2017 6 Minutes

Waxing theological

  1. Pervasive Interpretive Pluralism
  2. Getting crowded at the “heart of the Gospel”

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readerjohn Christianity generally, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Faith & Ideology, Free-range Christians, Holy Tradition, Orthodoxy, Rhetorical fallacies, Roman Catholicism, Thrown down gauntlet July 5, 2017July 5, 2017 7 Minutes

Fr. Stephen feast

I’ve probably said this before, or something very like it: I read every one of the blogs of Fr. Stephen Freeman, but they are so nuanced that I almost always wait until a quiet time when I can reflect on them a bit. That’s why I tend to share them all at once; I’ve read them all at once, too.

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readerjohn Evangelicalism, Orthodoxy, Patriotic Correctness, Worship July 2, 2017July 1, 2017 8 Minutes

All Trump

If you’re tired of criticism of Trump, this is not your afternoon at the Tipsy Teetotaler. That’s a trigger warning, not a taunt. I can fully understand just wanting normalcy.

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readerjohn Evangelicalism, irony, Jeremiad, Naked Emperors, the worst are full of passionate intensity, Transvaluation of Values July 1, 2017July 1, 2017 5 Minutes

Mélange 7/1/17

  1. Cardinal Pell
  2. Giving the Devil his due
  3. As the French used to say, not a serious man
  4. “The very best leeches”
  5. SPLC take-down
  6. Fair-weather fan

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readerjohn Evangelicalism, Film, Health Care, History, Legalia, Religious freedom, Roman Catholicism, Sport, stay tuned July 1, 2017June 30, 2017 5 Minutes

Potpourri 6/27/17

  1. No worse than everyone else
  2. Worldview testing redux
  3. Tracking the ominous oddities
  4. Hear no evil dissent

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readerjohn Evangelicalism, Political Matters, Religious freedom, Sexualia, Speech & Press, Sundry flakes 2 Comments June 27, 2017June 26, 2017 3 Minutes

Christian Worldview® processing

  1. Christian Worldview® Education
  2. Putting Choice First
  3. Benedict or Constantine?

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readerjohn Benedict Option, Creationism, Education, Evangelicalism, Faith & Ideology, Naked Emperors, Political Matters, Pretexting, Religious freedom, Thrown down gauntlet, Virtue signaling June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 7 Minutes

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