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The point of this podcast is pretty broad — “All of Christ for all of life.” In order to make that happen, we need “theology that bites back.” I want to advance what you might call a Chestertonian Calvinism, and to bring that attitude to bear on education, sex and culture, theology, politics, book reviews, postmodernism, expository studies, along with other random tidbits that come into my head. My perspective is usually not hard to discern. In theology I am an evangelical, postmill, Calvinist, Reformed, and Presbyterian, pretty much in that order. In politics, I am slightly to the right of Jeb Stuart. In my cultural sympathies, if we were comparing the blight of postmodernism to a vast but shallow goo pond, I would observe that I have spent many years on these stilts and have barely gotten any of it on me.
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Standing in the Rubble of Testimony
1w ago00:08:58Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.In this letter, I am going to start with the understanding that you have a high respect for Scripture. Although you are not yet at the point of affirming complete faith in its divine inspiration, you do take the prophets seriously, and have some sense of scriptural authority. You grew up with it, and it is deep within you.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
Transcribe →No Enemies Inside the Castle
2w ago00:12:49Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.We are going to be talking about Nazis in just a bit, but we need to start with something else first. Bear with me. It will all flow together shortly, as when you fold whipped egg whites into the batter for chiffon cake. Something like that, at any rate. One searches for the right words.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
Transcribe →By the Rivers of an Everlasting Babylon
2w ago00:07:23Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.If He did not rise, then as the apostle Paul noted, we Christians are the most pitiable creatures ever (1 Cor. 15:19). If He did rise from the dead, then He is the promised Messiah that the entire Old Testament was pointing toward. That would make the Jews the most to be pitied. This would mean that the ingenuity of a thousand rabbis can’t put the Old Testament jig saw puzzle together . . .For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
Transcribe →Land Acknowledgements and the Problem of Israel
3w ago00:11:11Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.So let us talk about that impotent contemporary ritual called the “land acknowledgment.” Nowadays when an event or activity is going to be taking place somewhere, or an institution is opening, the proceedings will often begin with a land acknowledgment. This is a little empty gesture recognizing the indigenous people who used to live there. Along with the implication that nothing will be done about it.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
Transcribe →From Trash World to Even Trashier, Nazi Chic, and the Immanent Frame
3w ago00:09:26Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.Cultural gaslighting is attempted when people in charge of something take some absurdity, throw a saddle on it, and then stand next to it, booted, spurred, and ready to ride. For example, the absurdity could be saying that the attempted beheading in Ireland was the result of us not being welcoming and inclusive enough. And believe me, they will ride that absurdity as long as the people out there put up with it. Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
Transcribe →Belfast Blues
3w ago00:09:32Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.The system of anarcho/tyranny begins by being slack with native criminals, and harsh with those who resist them. A homeowner who defends his property against a burglar can get in far more trouble than the burglars do. In the UK, you can get in more trouble for posting a meme about violent immigrants than you can for being a violent immigrant. And it all begins with a “soft on crime” mentality, which is hard on anyone who does not join in with the soft on crime approach.Anarcho/tyranny is then taken to the next level with unrestricted immigration. You not only let in the Third World, but you also let in Third World levels of criminality. At a certain point, the law-abiding explode, and nine times out of ten this just strengthens the hand of the anarcho/tyrants. They say, “white privilege now includes burning Belfast down, and so we clearly need to take steps and implement measures."For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
Transcribe →Boomer Woes
Jun 1000:09:44Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.I was born in 1953, and therefore have to confess that I am a boomer, right there in the middle of the pack. There were boomers ahead of me, and boomers behind me, and absolutely everybody in my third grade class was also a boomer. Although we didn’t call ourselves that at the time. Sad to say, we were largely unaware at the time.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
Transcribe →That PCA Report on Christian Nationalism
Jun 900:20:07Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.So last Thursday the first part of the PCA’s study report on Christian nationalism dropped. For those who would check it out, here you go. The following is what I tweeted at the time, and so here we are...Before getting to my promised awkward questions, let me start by saying what was good about the report. And there was much that was good—if we restrict ourselves to various points in isolation. But depending on how the follow-up Q&A goes, we might find ourselves trying to deal with a conflicted version of Bunyan’s Mr. Facing-both-ways. We shall see.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
Transcribe →Struggling With God
Jun 400:08:03Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.The name Israel was given to Jacob at Peniel (Gen. 32) when he was on his way to reunite with his brother Esau—doing so while not knowing if that reunion was going to be bloody or not. God had told him to return, and had promised that such a return would be blessed. But this was a promise that Jacob had to hang on to by sheer faith, especially after he got word that Esau was headed his way, and with four hundred armed men with him.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
Transcribe →We Are Cooking on the Front Burner Now
Jun 200:12:34Tap to summarizeIT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.I think we should be frank with one another at this point and just acknowledge that the world is having itself an upheaval. If this is not the Fourth Turning that Howe and Strauss wrote about back in the day, it is bidding fair to approximate some kind of white water turning. As the saying goes, “first they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” But all along that process is a good deal of churn...For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/
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