My parents just returned from a genealogical tour of England, and toward the end of their journey, they attended a Lord’s Day service at the small church built in the 1300s that my ancestors were part of for generations. Centuries’ worth of them were baptized in the baptismal
My mom just casually pulled out an 1853 Book of Common Prayer & Polyglot Bible that has been in our family since it was purchased. She recently found it in the belongings my late Grammy left behind.
Day made. Merry Christmas!
Lest the fog of culture war or the veil of social media have you doubting it, I can confirm that
-Chocolate Knox is as good of a conversationalist in person as he is on a podcast
-Toby Sumpter really does exude sturdy, manly maturity
-William Wolfe is as jovial & delightfully
The journalist who interviewed
@DustyDeevers
claimed that access to no-fault divorce “leads to a dramatic decrease in suicide, domestic violence, and even murders, with women being primarily the victim.”
None of this is true. 🧵
Back when I was drinking a bit of the woke Kool-Aid, I would judge fellow Christians for living in the cushy suburbs with their unbearable “whiteness” and not being “missional” enough to reach the inner city.
I moved into a rental house in the zip code that happened to have the
@redeemed_zoomer
Less utopian:
The government is Catholic
The musicians are non-denom
The mathematicians are Seventh-Day Adventist
The scientists are Mennonite
The chefs are Anglican
The writers are Baptist
The emergency workers are Pentecostal
The soldiers are Methodist
After years of working for “Christian” employers who made a fine art form out of bowing to leftist sensibilities, it is so great to work for
@RepubSentinel
.
Thanks to
@RedBalloonWork
for making the connection.
Another tidbit from the analysis I'm doing on Protestant influence:
The most Protestant African countries tend to be the most literate. Generally speaking, the ones above or around the trendline on the left of the scatterplot are predominantly Catholic, and most of the ones
An interesting tidbit from an analysis I'm doing on Protestant influence:
Protestants make up a tiny proportion of most Asian countries, but those that register at least 5% Protestant (1 in 20 people) have an average GDP/capita of $61,937, compared to the $25,345 average of the
the finest coterie of Christendom-building tradesmen, sourdough bakers, warriors, bookworms, farmers, scholars, Ugandans, and idol-smashers in the Anglosphere
Too many Christians put pressure on their own feelings to be the assurance that God is good and that they are saved. They struggle to maintain a daily Bible reading habit because they shrink back in shame when their feelings aren’t utterly exploding with joy as they read the
This horrendous story is the kind of thing that makes me Kuyper hyper.
I'd rather go a billion dollars into personal medical debt than have a judge making decisions about my baby's life.
BREAKING: The UK judiciary orders the death of the little patient
#IndiGregory
tomorrow at 2 pm 🇬🇧, despite the fact that the roman Bambino Gesù Hospital has offered to treat her in Italy and the Italian Government has granted Italian citizenship to the little girl to allow the
What makes for a well-engineered product? Which values, beliefs, skills, presuppositions, and behaviors characterize the people who make them?
-meticulousness
-diligence
-an concern for excellence
-a desire to solve and prevent problems
-patient testing and refining
-knowledge
An interesting tidbit from an analysis I'm doing on Protestant influence:
Protestants make up a tiny proportion of most Asian countries, but those that register at least 5% Protestant (1 in 20 people) have an average GDP/capita of $61,937, compared to the $25,345 average of the
A friend of mine attended a crisis counseling conference this past week at a hotel conference hall. The woke conference organizers announced at the beginning that they had made the nearest restrooms “gender-neutral.” During a break, when my friend had to use the restroom, he saw
@Brian_Sauve
That one, plus:
-The Son of God Goes Forth to War
-Who Shall the Lord’s Elect Condemn
-O God of Earth and Altar
-Let God Arise
-Rise Again, Ye Lion-hearted
-I Know that My Redeemer Lives
We call them our “spear-rattlers.”
Hate crime statutes are the anti-blasphemy laws of secular pluralism.
It is already illegal to beat and murder people and burn down buildings [as it should be]; hate crime statutes seek to punish whatever wrongthink the prosecutor presumes is in the defendant’s head. This should
Just saw one of my hardcore Marxist former professors selling used Pottery Barn curtains on Facebook Marketplace for $90 from her home in the wealthiest town in Tennessee, so that tracks.
Which of these real-life examples of not knowing what time it is do you cringe at the most?
1. A conservative Christian university who decides it needs to have a “Kingdom Diversity Office”
2. A church small group that decides to watch a documentary on the injustice of “mass
My wife and I had a bunch of homeschoolers over to celebrate C.S. Lewis’s birthday. They ate, drank, read some Lewis passages, and my wife gave a little biographical lecture on his life.
Further up and further in.
I did a content analysis of the websites of all the SBC-affiliated colleges and discovered that over half of these institutions are paying homage to the DEI dogma of the day. My latest for
@RepubSentinel
:
One of the many blessings of being at a church full of based, masculine men and gloriously feminine women is the amount of insanely delicious meals, baked goods, and garden-cut flowers that show up at your house when your wife has a baby.
@Byzness
Maybe it's just because of the times we're living in, but images like this, along with knights, archers, and explorers, get me more amped now than they did when I was a five-year-old boy.
I made it from kindergarten all the way through my master’s degree without ever being asked to read:
-any free-market economist
-anything critical of feminism
-much of anything about logic
-any church father, Reformer, or theologian between the end of the New Testament and 1900
[in smarmy therapist voice]
"Tell me more about your fears, AP."
"Is this conservative weapon in the room with us right now?"
"What other conservative weapons are you afraid of?"
A curious coincidence: years ago I was working in a college admissions office when I received an application from a man with a strange name. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but the name stuck with me.
Today, years later and hundreds of miles away, I learned that this same
Separated, divorced, and unmarried women are victims of domestic violence at higher rates than married women. This is not to say that violence doesn’t happen in marriages, but it does dash the superstition that no-fault divorce is “keeping women safe.”
Nearly every apostate I know has been to therapy, and most of the time, the therapist played an active role in their "deconstruction."
Therapists really do say things like,
"They [Christians] told you you were inherently bad? How did that make you feel?"
"It sounds like this
My one-year-old now says “Shoot!” in my wife’s Southern drawl, and it’s the kind of thing that makes me want to have 10 more babies and give them all my money.
A few days ago, my wife and I gave our one-year-old the Paddington Bear I had as a boy, but when we said his name, she thought we were giving her instructions to “pat the bear,” and now she won’t stop running around patting Paddington.
Post a picture of an American national monument or national park that you took yourself.
“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.” -Dad
@nbarnes84
@Brian_Sauve
@RepubSentinel
I appreciate everything you’ve said about it here and on your podcasts, Brian. Psychotherapy is an idol and a witchcraft that needs chopping down, and we really need to rediscover biblical categories of counseling from elders, fathers, and wise friends.
The much-satirized “church ladies” of the mid-century were based and on the right side of history. They were right to throw fits about unsupervised teenage buffoonery and Elvis thrusting his pelvis at adolescent girls.
Church ladies > unchurched ladies.
Modern psychotherapists have led many people astray into thinking they need to girlboss-confront their parents about all the ways they “traumatized” or disappointed them growing up. This violates the 5th commandment, and rarely, if ever, improves family relationships.
I watched the West Wing series for the first time recently. Decades late, I know. Here are my findings:
-President Bartlet is such a hicklib.
-The Democrats are wildly conservative by today’s standards, yet still well on their way down the DEI insanity spiral.
-The amount of
@Eric_Conn
What a glorious thing God made. I walk into my church full of pregnant women, babies everywhere, husbands with their arms thrown around their wives, and laugh heartily at the pagan suggestion that Christians are anti-sex.
There's an entire genre of God-hating academics who desperately grope around in the dark trying to figure out what made the West so great, only to find wrong answers or the material effects of the right one.
Meanwhile, Christians:
Back when I was a therapist, I’d ask my clients whether they believed people are born good or born sinful, when the topic was relevant. Without exception, the non-believers said that people are born good. With some cringeworthy exceptions, those claiming Christ said that we’re
“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is
When Experts Go Wrong🧵
In 1928, a professor wrote a parenting guide. It became a best-seller...
THEN 3 of his own kids committed suicide
Meet John Watson: the father of Behaviorism
A story of scientific arrogance, the meaning of love, and one expert with blood on his hands👇🏻
@GuyJones1111
Some gents from church and I are in the planning/feasibility stage of starting an all-male gym. We’ll probably have to function as a private club to avoid anti-discrimination laws.
Your responsibility as an American is to laugh along at the jokes, pat the jokers on the head, and then go on fulfilling your responsibilities as a superpower citizen.
I was today years old when I learned that the church I grew up in went through some painful aesthetic degradations from its founding in 1859 to the present day.
Great place, though.
My wife and I made the mistake of giggling too hard when I told our one-year-old daughter that this is “Pooh’s butt,” and now she flips this book open every night, turns to this page, and points to this picture with a mischievous grin, knowing it’s going to get us chucking again.
It is my wife’s birthday, and I recently learned that for her 10th birthday, she wanted to grill kebabs (in January), have an American flag birthday cake, and watch George Bush’s inauguration on TV.
I fell in love all over again upon learning this about her.