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The Blessings of Colonialism

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson argues for the blessings of colonialism, continues his study of New Testament foolishness with the word moros, and reviews Michael Kruger’s The Question of Canon and its case for the organic formation of the New Testament. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Righteous Deception

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers when deception may be righteous, continues his tour through the sins of the New Testament with morologia and foolish talking, and reviews Peter Kreeft’s The Myth, the Mask, and the Masterpiece on C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

True Foolishness

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson offers a cautiously optimistic take on the approaching midterms, continues his tour through the sins of the New Testament with moria and the foolishness of worldly wisdom, and recommends Thomas Goodwin’s The Vanity of Thoughts and the Puritan Treasures for Today series. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Losing Our Savor

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers Marco Rubio’s warning about left-wing political violence, examines the New Testament word moraino and the connection between folly and salt losing its savor, and reviews Steve Turley’s CivCosm and its vision of a world reorganizing around competing civilizations. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Spots and Blemishes

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on European soccer fans discovering the hospitality of heartland America, examines the shameless and brazen nature of sin through the word mamos, and reviews P. G. Wodehouse’s intricately plotted comedy Piccadilly Jim. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Revolt Against Reality

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers the conflict surrounding Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham in the WNBA, explains how mocking God means revolting against the way reality actually works, and reviews The Queen You Thought You Knew, highlighting Rabbi Fohrman’s insights into Esther’s subtle strategy against Haman. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Turning from the Truth

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson discusses the Supreme Court’s decision upholding state protections for women’s sports, examines the New Testament warnings against myths and fables, and reviews Malcolm Guite’s Galahad and the Grail. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

No Occasion for Despair

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers the Supreme Court’s birthright-citizenship decision and possible paths forward, examines the sin of making and worshiping the golden calf, and reviews Kurt Vonnegut’s practical writing advice in Pity the Reader. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

The Feminization of Everything

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson discusses the feminization of institutions and argues that the presence of women inevitably transforms male spaces. He then continues his survey of New Testament sins with quarreling—a public sin Christians often mistake for righteousness—and closes with a review of Yoram Hazoni’s God and Politics in Esther. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Cannabis Woes

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson talks about the strong evidence that links cannabis use to psychotic events, the filthiness of the flesh and spirit in 2 Corinthians, and C.S. Lewis’s Narrative Poems, especially "Dymer" and the value of writers whose phrases are sticky. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Two-Front War

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson cautions that modern wars are fought both on the battlefield and in the media narrative. He also continues his theological word study on sin with moluno and the defiling of the conscience, and reviews Charles Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students as a practical, warm-hearted book of homiletical wisdom. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Preference Cascades

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers signs of populist unrest in the UK, California, and Alberta, reflects on Molech and idolatry from Stephen’s speech in Acts, and reviews Glenn Reynolds’s Seductive AI with warnings about deception, dependence, and worship. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Why Aren’t More People in Jail?

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson argues that exposing corruption still requires real prosecutions and consequences, continues his hamartiology series with moichos as the Greek word for adulterer, and reviews Richard Baxter’s A Call to the Unconverted as a warm, urgent, and reformed evangelistic appeal. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

A Climate of Hatred

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson discusses political violence, public reactions to assassination attempts, and the need for real civic consequences rather than more dialogue, then continues his hamartiology series with the Greek verb moikeuo and its biblical treatment of adultery in the heart, marriage, love of neighbor, and the unity of God’s law, before reviewing Howard Pyle’s Men of Iron as a well-researched and gripping medieval adventure. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

A Double-Dog Dare at the Dead Sea

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson discusses Israel’s promotion of a pride event near the Dead Sea, continues his hamartiology series with the Greek noun moichea and its biblical treatment of adultery as a matter of the heart, and reviews Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades as a well-plotted historical romance with suspense, action, and careful period detail. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

The Great Op

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson talks about what he calls “the Great Op,” arguing that recent dissension on the right, Candace Owens, and the SPLC indictment point to a larger pattern of manufactured extremism and fundraising incentives. He then continues his study of hamartiology with a discussion of adultery in Matthew and Mark, before reviewing his father Jim Wilson’s Principles of War and its application of military principles to strategic evangelism. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Mean Girls and False Teachers | (Ep. 422)

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson opens with commentary on Candace Owens and the fallout surrounding Charlie Kirk's assassination, then turns to Scripture’s language about an evil and adulterous generation, spiritual unfaithfulness, and the way false teachers exploit lust under religious pretenses, before closing with a review of David Talcott’s Plato and a reflection on whether Plato deserves a more sympathetic reading than he is often given. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Fair and Square | (Ep. 421)

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on the birth of modern Israel, tracing the Balfour Declaration, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, British promises to Jews and Arabs, and the wars that followed, before turning to a study of hatred in Scripture—how it marks the natural man, contradicts life in Christ, and yet can be righteous when directed against sin and iniquity—and closing with a review of Blood, Money, Power, a book arguing that Lyndon B. Johnson may have had a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

The Problem with Edgelords | (Ep. 420)

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson opens with an observation about the edgelords on the right who know how to attack but do not know how to govern, then continues his hamartiology series with a study of the New Testament word for hate and Christ’s command to return good for evil. He closes with a review of How the British Invented Communism (and Blamed It on the Jews), a provocative book about British intrigue, the Bolsheviks, and the Russian Revolution. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

Conquered, Not Stolen | (Ep. 419)

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com. In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on the domestic political fallout of the Iran war and argues that what voters reject is not war itself so much as “forever war.” He then turns to the New Testament word miasmos to describe the “lust of uncleanness” as a deepening pattern of moral slavery, and closes with a review of Not Stolen by Jeff Fynn-Paul, a historical response to the claim that America is simply “stolen land.” For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

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