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Btw, Christianity is true.
Whatever it is that allows one to watch that speech and analyze it in any serious way is something I just don’t have.
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I love singing on Sundays with the Aquinas Institute at the Princeton University Chapel led by Peter Carter. My husband It’s also in the choir. And I’m taking private voice lessons with one of the choir leaders!
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C.S. Lewis on why we must read old books — and why history matters…
From The Weight of Glory (1941)
This is just the sort of pretentiousness I absolutely abhor from the literary world. You can’t choose ONE piece that you deem worthy? Not ONE piece out of the thousands that you received—likely from far better writers than these “editors” themselves?
Traditional lit mags need to die. Stop giving these absolute incompetents your money and…
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I’ve seen other people try this, so I figured I’d give it a go.
Substack algorithm, please connect me with:
Christians who love Tradition, the Ancient Church, and the Church Fathers + Mothers
Lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien + C.S. Lewis
Music enthusiasts (Josh Garrels, Phil Wickham, Alanis Morissette, a wide range)
Aesthetic enthusiasts
This is as far back as we can get good data on white evangelicals.
In 1960:
61% were Democrats
30% were Republicans
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God knows you completely—your struggles, your fears, your hopes—and He walks with you through it all. His mercy is never exhausted, His grace never runs dry. Even in the silence, He is there, drawing you closer. You are known. You are loved. You are never alone.
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Truly staggering to read a piece about the trans issue today which DOES NOT EVEN MENTION the two core areas of disagreement - unfairness in sports, protection of women in intimate spaces and prisons, and medical experiments on children with gender dysphoria. Just pure propaganda and lies. Using the history of marriage equality to defend …
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C.S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer.
It is rather instructive…
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Tom Wolfe thought brain scans marked the death of the soul. Not so much, as @SpencerKlavan (no relation) explains in "The Fractals Declare the Glory of God," at the New Jerusalem.
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From Oxford University Press.
If you want to understand the contours of American religion, this is my best effort.
Over 140 charts, graphs, and maps.
I visualize all the way back to 1776 through the modern day.
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C.S. Lewis said somewhere that Protestants look at Catholics and see an overgrown jungle—”What is all this stuff?” Catholics look at Protestants and see a barren desert—”Where is everything?”
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substack should introduce a feature where you can start your essay with one of those medieval drop caps.
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Finished Catch-22. The last time I read it I was a senior in high school. For awhile it was my favorite novel.
Second time around as a middle-aged man, enjoyed it. The Marx Brothers-esque patter was funny for sure, but I got tired of it after awhile.
Having 20 years of real world experience with dealing with bureaucracy made the novel all the more painfully hilarious.
I wrote a paper when I was a senior on Milo Minderbinder. Still think he’s my favorite character in the book. Just a fascinating…
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JUST IN: Give me a Thumbs-Up 👍, if you support Elon Musk and DOGE auditing EVERY SINGLE Gov. Agency that wastes YOUR tax dollars.
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The share of people born between 1955 and 1959 who have no religious affiliation:
28%
For people born between 1975-1979:
41% - a 13 point increase in 20 years of birth cohorts.
For those born between 1995-2000:
46% - a 5 point increase in 20 years.
BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy calls for schools to “bring back the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem in the classroom.” - Leading Report
Do you agree with this? Yes or no?
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Trump laid the perfect trap tonight at the State of the Union.
Show America Democrats won't applaud anything. Make them commit to the bit.
Fill the speech with heroes, kids with cancer and victims of violent crime.
Cameras on them when not applauding or cheering things most people who are not monsters easily celebrate.
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The Democrats unanimously back an obviously unfair policy opposed by 80 percent of Americans and a majority of their own voters. Why? Because a few super-woke mega-rich “queer” donors and their foundation-funded orgs control the entire joint. They control every Dem Senator.
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A $20 Billion Slush Fund—Paid by You to Progressive Nonprofits
It appears the billions didn’t revitalize anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials.
King George III was sitting pretty for a portrait. He asked his Pennsylvania painter, Benjamin West, what General Washington planned to do after having successfully defended the independence of the American states.
“They say he will return to his farm,” West replied.
“If he does that,” the King responded, “he will be the greatest man in …
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One more thing about AI. Psalm 115 has this chilling line about people who make idols--wooden or stone images that look human on the outside but have no sentience on the inside. Eyes have they but see not, ears have they but hear not, and those who make them shall become like them. At least, that's how it's typically translated.
Well, after spending some time among these doofuses who think AI can do their reading or write their papers for them, I suddenly realized: in the Hebrew, that line can …
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The best thing my parents ever did for me was NOT affirming my transgender identity. From ages 12-24 I hated them for it. I thought they stood in the way of me becoming my ‘true, authentic self.’
In reality I was a brainwashed kid and my parents were my protectors. I love you, mom & dad.
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Democrats at the State of the Union couldn't even applaud a kid with brain cancer.
Unbelievable.
I always thought that writers are particularly hostile to each other today, but apparently writers have never liked each other.
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Every era has a dominant myth. Ours is that we have outgrown mythology.
A Canadian politician called on Justin Trudeau to bar comedian Michael Rapaport from entering the country for a few gigs—simply because he supports the existence of a Jewish state. Rapaport responded by offering her front row seats.
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Marc Antony getting a smoke before borrowing the ears of various friends, Romans, and countrymen.
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I hate all the classes:
-rich people are greedy and arrogant.
-middle class people are boring and conformist.
-poor people are ugly, dirty, loud and obnoxious, and prone to crime.
Simple YES or NO poll. Do you support stopping Bill Gates from vaccinating ALL livestock globally?
A. YES
B. NO
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I learned last night that my wife is at the stage of pregnancy where she turns on Alvin and the Chipmunks’ “You had a bad day” as a joke, and then actually starts crying to it
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You haven’t really experienced the full benefits of multilingualism until you’re reading a fat book and realize that you understand all four languages in question.
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I’m looking to speak to women who are emotionally attached to/in love with AI companions. If you know me and my work, then you already know my style—observational and nonjudgmental. Please share widely!
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Finally arrived today, yay! Just in time for Lent.
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Washington Post columnist talked to my friend and colleague Jordan Castro about his writing and way of thinking about culture. What Jordan says in this interview encapsulates much of what the and the broader Cluny Institute is doing. I’m grateful to work alongside him. The profile:
EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Grandma Arrested by Scotland’s Speech Police
Rose Docherty, 74, was taken into custody last month for violating Britain’s censorship laws. She tells The Free Press: “I’m an elderly woman. What are they afraid of?”
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About 5 paragraphs in, please find a useful roundup of (polarized!) reactions to yesterday’s White House shitshow.
Disappointing, but not all that surprising that a bunch of Substackers & podcasters who built huge audiences between 2020-24 for being brave anti-establishment truth-tellers can't bring themselves to criticise the establishment now that it's changed hands.
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Thomas Sowell deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, if for only one reason: his courage.
I had a front row seat in the late 1980’s culture wars and saw how vicious the liberal response to my father, Shelby Steele, was when he spoke his mind freely. He was told he wasn’t black, was called a race traitor, and lost everything from jo…
I hope this puts to rest the insufferable conceit of that vaunted “wall” between opinion and news. The separation is more like a bulkhead in a ship. Everyone at the paper will sink because of the fascist-friendly Opinions page, even if Bezos doesn’t come for the reporters right away (and he will). Abandon ship, reporters.
Both Baron and Sullivan stand by the news coverage at the Post. I will not cancel my subscription until this changes. We need investigative reporters more than ever. ProPublica, Wired and Jane Mayer can’t cover all of it.
I understand your point, but you likewise understand that we subscribers only had one way of protesting.
I think your point is getting less defensible in light of how those readers and subscribers of the Post, many civil servants or contractors, are disproportionately suffering attacks on their livelihoods from this regime. At a certain point—one already past, in my view—the reporters have to take their professional skills elsewhere unless they want to be collaborators with literal Nazis. They w…
Boycotting Amazon hits him harder. Cancel Prime Video and boycott Whole Foods.
