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Category Archives: Culture War
Now That’s A Communion Rail
In light of the recent dust-up that Darrell Todd (“Scoop”) Maurina’s hit piece has created (again, again, again, and again.But wait, there’s more), an Outhouse correspondent has reached back into the archives and requested something get re-posted. As if Old … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Culture War, Scoop Maurina, Two-kingdoms
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Speaking of Gay Marriage (and The Abiding Validity of Abstention)
David Blankenhorn has recently amended his posture on the whole issue. Some conservative Calvinists find much with which to resonate in Blankenhorn’s outlook, but also worry that a public intellectual ought not to resign himself like this. Point well taken. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Culture War, David Blankenhorn
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WCF Says No on Gay Marriage
To pull a trick from Zrim’s bag, I think it’s time for a re-post, revised and expanded for our current times (because if the Outhouse is about anything, it’s about Relevance!) The question came up what (R/W/Z)2K’ers think of the … Continue reading
One Lord, One Baptism, One Sentiment
This is so DGH, it’s not worth trying to Guess Who: An implicit assumption of faith-based politics is that people who hold the same religious convictions will, or at least should, look at the political order in similar ways. Some invoke … Continue reading
What Has Been Will Be Again, There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
Sensing the rumblings of social discontent in the 1870s, as gauged by popular economist Henry George and others, the architects of the social gospel emphasized justice and physical redemption in this present world over spiritual salvation in the life to … Continue reading
Comparing Moralist Apples and Heterodox Fruit
There is usually plenty of push back against the suggestion that it is problematic to characterize Christian sectarians like Mormons “cultists.” But I wonder if it could be helped by characterizing Good Shepherd Church and its Bayly leadership as really … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Culture War, Mormonism, Westboro Baptist
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I’m Just Asking
One of the more vivid memories I have upon exiting broad secularism and entering the funda-evangelical world in the early 1990s was attending a small Bible study in the little IFCA church. Like many former evangelicals will attest, not much … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Culture, Culture War, evangelicals, Pro-life movement, Ray Comfort, Video
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Guess the Good Guy
We are constantly told, it is true, that there ought to be an equal opportunity for all the children in the United States; therefore, it is said, Federal aid ought to be given to backward states. But what shall we … Continue reading
The American Conservative on the Conservative Evangeliliberals
The American Conservative claims that “conservative evangelicals are more Republican than Republicans.” The piece is good not only for plugging a forthcoming title by Darryl Hart (From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelical Protestants and the Betrayal of American Conservatism) … Continue reading
Posted in American Conservative, Culture War, DG Hart, Plugs
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Guess Who
From a discussion of secular schooling: [Objection:] But participation in state schools is unwise for Christians. It aids and abets a movement toward greater state power, and hence toward a greater domination of unbelief in our society. I respect this … Continue reading
Of Civic Friendship, Civility and Self-Restraint
For those who look with relative bewilderment at a larger Protestant America that touts itself as conservative but behaves progressively in matters not only of faith but also life, Patrick Deneen has a nice little bit over at the Front Porch Republic. Quoth … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Culture War, Front Porch Republic, Reformed piety
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Redeeming Money
Wondermark is a webcomic I follow, and today’s episode (the latest in a short series) is worthy of tacking onto the moon-ventilated door of the Outhouse (Click it to view full size): For more on morally redeeming the things of … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Culture, Culture War, Friday fun, Horton, Humor, Mike Horton, Outhouse Quick Hits, Transformationism, Two-kingdoms, W2K
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Word of the Day: Politicism
This from one of the geek blogs I read, in response to our recent Big Weather Events: English needs, I think, a word for “beliefs which are motivated by the terror of being powerless against large threats”. The (apparently atheist) author … Continue reading
Doing Justice to Equity
Our old friend Kazooless has been serializing his talk from Hoagies & Stogies: Open Mic Night about the historicity of Theonomist thought throughout the Reformation. The fourth and latest installment has quotes from Calvin, which made me think in a … Continue reading
We Still Need More Hunters
Ok, so I used the image to reel you in, hoping you share in my innocent crush since 1989. Sue me. But back to business. Some rightly point to the phenomenon of “culture war” as a symptom of crisis in … Continue reading
Posted in Culture War, James Davison Hunter, Quotes
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