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Category Archives: Aaron Renn
The Hero System of Author Aaron Renn (Life in the Negative World)
Laconia, Indiana holds about fifty people. It sits on a bend of the Ohio River, in country that had lost its reasons to exist about the time Aaron Renn (b. October 1969) was born there. A boy raised in such … Continue reading
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Aaron M. Renn – The Consultant and the Cathedral
Aaron M. Renn approached American Christianity as a consultant who had spent fifteen years diagnosing institutions under constraint. That formation explains his tone, appeal, limits and influence. He was born in October 1969 in Laconia, Indiana, a town of roughly … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Christian Intellectual Authority
Elite Christian intellectuals do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking theological, cultural, and civilizational languages that frame their claims as fidelity to orthodox witness, loyalty to the Great Tradition, or responsibility for sustaining … Continue reading
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Decoding Aaron Renn
ChatGPT says: Aaron Renn is best decoded, through Alliance Theory, as a coalition diagnostician who tells a displaced group why it lost status and what kind of alliance is now required to survive. Start with Pinsof’s core premise. Moral narratives … Continue reading
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Feeling Loss At Demographic Displacement Is Natural, Normal & Healthy
Aaron Renn writes: “Feeling a sense of ambivalence or loss about demographic or cultural displacement is a completely natural human reaction, but is treated in our society as either wholly legitimate or the worst thing ever depending on who expresses … Continue reading
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Why Are So Many Men Converting To Orthodox Christianity?
I hear Gemini 3.0 is the best AI chatbot, so I took it for a drive this morning. Gemini: This trend of men converting to Orthodox Christianity in the U.S. is driven by a desire for a faith that offers … Continue reading
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Rediscovering E. Digby Baltzell’s Sociology of Elites
Aaron Renn writes: * Baltzell defines an aristocratic upper class as one which justifies its status and privileges through service to the nation, both by assuming leadership roles and by being open to assimilating the families of new men of … Continue reading
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‘The Lifestyle Ratchet’
Aaron Renn writes: These are class markers that help demarcate the in group from the out group. It isn’t precisely required to engage in all this stuff, but if you aspire to be a professional in a corporate setting, you’ll … Continue reading
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‘Imposing a status penalty on members helps keep conservative organizations conservative’
Aaron Renn writes: The more liberal churches such as the mainline denominations have been bleeding people for decades. They are often boring and with an attendee base that skews older. More conservative evangelical churches are much younger, more vibrant, have … Continue reading
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What Jordan Peterson Can Teach Church Leaders
Aaron Renn writes in the WSJ: Mainstream institutions and authorities—churches, schools, academia, the media—could learn a few things from the online gurus about how to speak to young men effectively. Young men today often feel as if their needs are … Continue reading
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