I decided to not put @EricRWeinstein in the title but I did use a clip of his conversation with @JDVance1. Also a number of references to his outstanding convo with @DouthatNYT. His decadence book has really colonized me. 1/7
I also read almost the entire introduction to @RootAndrew 's amazon.com/Pastor-Secular… which has within it an outstanding narrative of the American church over the last few hundred years. 2/7
If you understand @RootAndrew 's narrative I think you can rightly understand @jordanbpeterson 's big wave and the emergence of the @EricRWeinstein 's IDW in the Western, secular church context. 4/7
JBP's post-modern situated neo-classical-liberalism informed by his Jungian Existentialist take offered a sufficiently plausible religious suggestion to push a wave of people back to church, especially highly sacramentalist churches. 5/7
Finally started diving into Hans Boersma's excellent amazon.com/Heavenly-Parti… which is not disappointing. In a rather @PageauJonathan way we're cycling back to a neo-sacramentalism informed by church fathers. (HT @EricJDirksen ) 6/7
Before watching @jordanbpeterson I was watching some of the brightest and best in the @CRCNA follow this path lead by @james_ka_smith but now the pieces (at least in my mind) are starting to fall together... 7/7
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I don't think most listeners have much appreciation for just how radical @holland_tom answer to @gavinashenden 's question is for drowsy secular liberals in the West.
Secularism, a Christian invention, is based on a sort of "opt-out" posture regarding "faith" positions. Human rights is the law of the West, the law of the United Nations, but @holland_tom asserts it's just as much an article of faith as Christ's resurrection.
I'm going to have to continue to ponder his advice to the church, because on the menu of options in the Protestant marketplace angels, miracles, deliverance are VERY much represented. It's certainly true of the church in the developing world.
In today's video I offer one of the reasons I see for the success of @jordanbpeterson 's Biblical series.
The scientistic lab leak (removing the first personal from observation in an attempt to establish a monarchical vision) over-elevated a correspondence definition of "truth".
The "true" in vernacular, vaguely scientistic speech is what can be seen to correspond to physical observation.
People seem to imagine that what the homeless need is more stuff. Most of the homeless I deal with on a daily basis have more stuff than they know what to do with. A good amount of the garbage the church pays to have hauled away is stuff abandoned by the homeless
The amount of sympathy for the homeless is a mile wide and an inch deep. By the time someone starts sleeping at my church they are the most hardcore homeless around. Mental illness. Drug habits. Complete rupture of their familial networks.
By the time they become my friend there is very little chance to reverse this death spiral. I've seen a couple people do it, but most follow a predictable pattern. Next will be an institution, usually a bad nursing home. A while there and then death. Some skip the nursing home.
I've been doing "thief in the night" livestreams lately. I call them that because I come unannounced into the Discord server and see what mix of randos I can find and what kind of conversation we can generate.
One guy who I spoke with a couple of years ago who used to be an angry atheist shared how he was joining the Coptic church in the UK and wanted to talk about all the interest in Orthodoxy. Hence the meme I made.
He also had some strong opinions about music. He felt that he had used music pornographically in the past and appreciated the restraint shown in the Eastern churches he was in the process of joining.
Today's video is a massive mess teased by a click-baity title. I also happen to think that the title is true.
The length is obscene which has the beneficial effect of mostly limiting the content of the video to my core audience that usually for vocational reasons can digest VERY LONG video content.
I make these videos not so much for the promotion of ideas but to spur insight, engagement and discussion.
@SteeleMannFS@holland_tom this is like a guy coming back from a California reservoir with a glass of fresh water declaring "we absolutely must NOT get our water from the clouds..." OK...
@SteeleMannFS@holland_tom He imagines his support for gay marriage was cooked up in some Christianity free clean room. I suppose his immune system is so strong because it never met a germ.
@SteeleMannFS@holland_tom In some ways their ignorance of how history works parallels creation ex nihilo. Only someone who doesn't know Voltaire would imagine he said "and let there be godlessness..." and it was evening and morning, the first day.