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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

As far as all this uproar concerns the church, the real culprit in our midst is the white evangelical squish. He is full to the brim with moderation and his own good intentions. He overflows with them, and he is standing in the slop. And he absolutely refuses to understand what is going on. You can pick up the FREE ebook 'Leadership and the Sin of Empathy' by Joe Rigney Here: https://in.canonpress.com/leadership-and-the-sin-of-empathy-kindle Get FREE physical books here: https://noquarternovember.com Get the complete Ashtown Burials series at https://ashtownburials.com Grab Douglas Wilson's Free ebook 'Notes for Elders on the Way' Here: https://dougwils.com/product/notes-for-elders-on-the-way Read Pastor Douglas Wilson's full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/wednesday-rant-2.html For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

On Becoming a Responsible Man

Over many years of counseling and teaching, I have discovered that one of the most difficult lessons for men to learn is the distinction between guilt and responsibility. I believe that this is a difficult lesson for any man to learn in this fallen world, but our egalitarian generation has made it many times more difficult. This has been done through its resentful revolt against masculinity itself, coupled with its signature reflex move of routinely “blaming the man.” You can pick up the FREE ebook 'No Time to Be Dumb” by Rachel Jankovic Here: https://in.canonpress.com/no-time-yt Get FREE physical books here: https://noquarternovember.com Get the complete Ashtown Burials series at https://ashtownburials.com Grab Douglas Wilson's Free ebook 'Letters of Marital Counseling' Here: https://dougwils.com/product/letters-... Grab Douglas Wilson's Free ebook 'Letters to a Rootless White Kid' Here: https://dougwils.com/product/letters-... Read Pastor Douglas Wilson's full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-cultur... For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Jehovah and the Midterms

This is the last regularly scheduled post before I move into NQN beast mode and, as it turns out, it is also the last post before the midterms—those foreboding midterms. I have something of a rag bag of thoughts for you all on that topic, and so I have put them down for you in no particular order. Each one will be contained by a paragraph, and each paragraph will be asked to be its own distinct rag. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqBwHBzBkI IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Glory and the Gibbit

So when the Christ finally appeared, it seemed pretty clear to everyone what He was going to do. The most natural thing in the world to assume was that He would be manifested in power and glory, He would bare His right arm, and deliver the people of Israel. This assumption was even shared by the Lord’s disciples. He would destroy the Romans, and establish Israel as a free and prosperous kingdom, and He would do it all by kicking butt and taking names…Now they were right about the greater work of power—which is what the resurrection was—but they failed to budget for the humiliation that would need to happen first, setting the stage for the resurrection. In order to make a resurrection possible, it was necessary for Him to die. Read Pastor Douglas Wilson's full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s21-atheism-and-apologetics/glory-and-the-gibbit.html Get the complete Ashtownburials Quartet at ashtownburials.com Blog and Mablog is presented by Canon Press For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU5TRNgxk5I IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Go Home, Europe, You’re Drunk

Godless secularism has no center, no arche. The Void provides no foundation for stable governance, and moreover cannot do so. Instead of getting magistrates with integrity, you get existential philosophy professors talking learnedly of despair, smoking cigarettes, and boinking undergraduates….In contrast to all such vapid nonsense, every nation needs to turn to Christ. In the case of France, they need to return to Christ. Read Pastor Douglas Wilson’s full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/go-home-europe-youre-drunk.html Get your copy of the Ashtown Burials Quartet at ashtownburials.com Blog and Mablog is presented by Canon Press For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUmrzdqpXZM IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

What WON'T Unite the Nations | Doug Wilson

There are two sorts of unity that are set before us in this memorial, one of them rebellious and idolatrous, and the other submissive and obedient. By confusing the languages, God scattered an early attempt at rebellious unity at Babel, the forerunner of all globalist attempts to govern the world apart from Christ. The thing that made this rebellious unity sinful was not the unity per se, but rather the fact that the unity was being built on a rebellious foundation. The problem was not the unity, but rather the fact that the unity was idolatrous and hostile to Heaven. Of course, such unity is not really a true unity at all Read Pastor Douglas Wilson's full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/our-memorial-on-nations-comments-and-observations.html For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HCGi09z4A8 IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

What Should Christians Think Of The Execution of Hassan?

Put this another way. Suppose Hassan were going to be hanged in a stadium. Nothing wrong with that. Do you let vendors sell popcorn and hot dogs? Of course not. Do you sell tickets? Of course not. You obviously must have tickets, but they would have to be apportioned by lottery. Executions must not be allowed to degenerate into a commercial enterprise. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkie7B2_vs IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

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Dinesh and the American Fixer-Upper

Just a few short days ago, Dinesh D’Souza decided to start talking trash about Calvinism online, and—let us be frank—that created something of a set-to. The imbroglio consisted of two parts. One part had to do with the standard doctrinal questions which naturally arise whenever these questions come up. “Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?”. How can God be sovereign and at the same time man be free and responsible? I will just note in passing that this standard objection to Calvinism shows up in the New Testament as a standard objection to Pauline theology. Somebody should explain that. Just saying. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_zDz7JjTI IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Thoughts on the Eric Erickson Imbroglio

Last week Eric Erickson published an article that claimed to have connected a lot of dots on what has come to be called the Woke Right. That article is here. He traced a lot of our woes back to Charles Haywood, a big donor on the hard right, and formulator of the “no enemies to the right” approach, and which Erickson claimed has led to lots of bad stuff. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

The Brilliance of Ancient Man

One of the intellectual problems that conservative Christians have is that they have allowed evolutionary assumptions to seep into their understanding of human history downstream from the question of our origins. They deny the theory of evolution proper, as well they ought, considering it to be, in the words of Malcolm Muggeridge, “one of the great jokes of history.” This is fine and good, as we all need a good laugh from time to time. But the discussions and debates about evolution all tend to center on the early chapters of Genesis, intelligent design, and arguments about how the Grand Canyon formed. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

The Wiki-Me. And the Weal Me.

Last week we taped an episode of Man Rampant for our upcoming season, and the interview was with Larry Sanger, the man who initially built out Wikipedia. He has done quite a number of other things since those early years, some of which activities have recently gotten him banned as an editor at Wikipedia. One of his recent projects is called WikiCritic, and by the time our Man Rampant episode airs, his site should be up and running. I will let you know. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Big Fat Sinners, All of Them

In Doug's continued dialogue with Ehud, Wilson talks about 'Big Fat Sinners, All of Them'... In my last letter, I addressed (and answered) the belief that some Christians have had that consigns Jews to the status of “Christ-killers.” That is a very specific issue, and one relatively easy to address from Scripture with texts that are very much on the nose. What I want to address now is downstream from that. What is the biblical response to those Jews who have hardened in their unbelief because of the treatment they have received from professing Christians? And more to the point, why should you refuse to participate in that hardening? For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

The American Creedle

I have to begin by saying that I like Neil Gorsuch. I like the fact that he is on the Court. Despite a few unfortunate votes, his presence there is pretty reliable and steady. He voted to strike down Roe, and so he has won my friendship forever. That said—and let us frank and honest here—that statement above is about as defensible as the infamous response of Ketanji Brown Jackson, which she made that time when the good senators decided for some reason to test her biology chops. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--DQYJLfRJc IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Psychotic Empathy

As I write these words, the trial of Lindsay Clancy in Massachusetts is wrapping up. She killed her three kids a few years ago, and the trial is over whether she did so in the grip of postpartum psychosis, and so not guilty by reason of insanity, or whether she was responsible for three counts of criminal murder. If the former, she will go into a mental institution, and if the latter, she will go to prison. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bKWQSGWyD0 IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Both Brilliant and Blind

I first read Eric Hoffer’s book The True Believer in 1984, over forty years ago now. I had also read Orwell’s 1984 in that same year because I thought it was an appropriate time to get around to it, and you could kind of see where things were going by that point. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Reflections on the Tattooed Lady

Nancy Mace has had an interesting and somewhat conflicted career. For just one example, she was the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, and during her congressional stint she was an active voice in opposing the use of women’s bathrooms there by trans men. In other words, she successfully invaded a male-only space, and then fought hard to preserve a female-only space. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Who Needs Whom?

Doug continues his series of his letters to Tyler... When you showed no signs of changing your mind for week two, the tone changed completely. After a few badgering sessions, she seduced you. A couple days later, there was some mild badgering, and then she seduced you again. And she asked you to come back to your regular church, but you went off to a different church again. Do I have it basically right? For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Opportunity and Envy

One of the recent discussion points on the right is related to a comment made by our vice-president about the appeal of socialism. He said, and I quote: “My warning to my fellow Republicans . . . You don’t stop socialism by throwing slogans at people about the free market. You stop socialism by making people’s lives better.” Now the VP is exactly right in what he says here, but some are worried about what he is not yet saying, and what that might mean. If this statement ends with a period, stop, then sign me up. But if there is an ellipsis after better, then I want to see where that might be going. My observations of the political world over the course of my lifetime has made me nervous about all ellipses. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

The Rise of the Islamo-Commies

A decade ago, Canon published Empires of Dirt, and given our cultural moment now, the subtitle is interesting to look back on. That subtitle was “Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative.” In some respects, the terrain back then was quite different than it is today, but in other ways, it is still the same old game . . . only more pronounced and amplified. It is the same old pudding, but somebody put more eggs into it, and then somebody else took an egg whisk to it. I can see that puzzled look on your faces. Please allow me to explain. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

His Blood Be Upon Us and Our Children

In Doug's continued dialogue with Ehud, Wilson's talk about the 'King of the Jews' ... According to the “Christ-killer” taunt that some misguided souls have leveled at the Jews, the idea is that the Jewish people are collectively and uniquely responsible for the execution of their Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. I will discuss the full range of that word uniquely a bit later in this letter. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_14ST116vpc IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.