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Category Archives: Christianity
Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture
Any dissident, including any American Orthodox Jew, can resonate with many of these insights. Everyone living in a porous identity in the first world is living in a negative world. Aaron M. Renn writes in this 2024 book: * Cultural … Continue reading
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It Wasn’t An Accident That Another Trans Shooter Targeted A Catholic School
Roman Catholicism is the most visible example of an institution that has not gone all-in on celebrating gay and trans identity. To the extent there is any pushback to the valorization of gay and trans identity in America, it comes … Continue reading
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The most powerful systems of epistemic closure in America today
Written with ChatGPT: Epistemic closure = when a community defines what can and cannot be questioned, and enforces consensus not through argument but by gatekeeping who counts as credible. Stephen P. Turner’s point is that closure is inevitable; the question … Continue reading
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (2024)
Aaron Renn reviews Tim Alberta’s book: His portrayal of the anti-Trumpers is almost a photographic negative of the pro-Trumpers he decries. Pro-Trumpers believe they are fighting a culture war to save America from those who want to destroy it. But … Continue reading
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Why Are Churches Anti-Men? (3-12-25)
01:00 Aaron Renn: When Selfishness Becomes Celebrated: How modern culture repackages marital abandonment as radical self-love, with little counter-narrative from religious voices, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/selfish-abandonment09:00 Dennis Prager’s First Public Message11:00 Rodney Martin needs your prayers24:00 Aaron Renn: Tradcons Are the Enemy of … Continue reading
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Why Does The Church Hate Men?
One thing I love about my conversion to Orthodox Judaism after my upbringing in Seventh-Day Adventism is that OJ is a safe place for men. Outside of pockets of left-wing Modern Orthodoxy, there’s not much of a need in traditional … Continue reading
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What Should Jews & Catholics Learn From Protestants? (3-9-25)
01:00 I was intoxicated for a month with Trump II05:00 Polarized America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOlMkcqXAIg07:00 Tariffs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBoGJlpSdpY12:00 The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community (2014), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15930330:00 AI can be a great editor, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15950849:20 From Harding to Trump: The REAL History of … Continue reading
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Why Men Hate Going to Church
Aaron Renn writes Oct. 1, 2024: young men could become the new “customer” of the church. David Murrow wrote a great book called Why Men Hate Going to Church. He noted that since there was such a female gender skew … Continue reading
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Christian Provacateurs
Aaron Renn writes Nov. 12, 2024: The left’s bogeyman du jour is Elon Musk, not someone like Pat Robertson. However, various Christian provocateurs are going to keep saying and doing things intentionally designed to anger secular society. For example, Indiana … Continue reading
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How Protestants Made The West Great
The Social Pathologist, a Roman Catholic, blogs Dec. 24, 2021 (hat tip to Aaron Renn): Protestantism gets a bad rap among many on the right and I think some of the traditional criticisms of it are justified. However, as I’ve … Continue reading
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