As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Tobias Cremer’s The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism, and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West, which evaluates this question on four interrelated arguments using Germany, France, and the United States as case studies.” - Providence
“Hummel…takes the reader back to Plymouth, a midsize port city on England’s southern coast that birthed the nonconformist sect known as the Plymouth Brethren. And he takes the reader to Ireland, where we encounter a radical Irish Anglican curate named John Nelson Darby” - First Things
Acton’s Religion & Liberty reviews Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision and Bioethics: A Primer for Christians (4th ed.) - R&L
“Deneen calls for ‘a new elite … dedicated to the promotion and construction of a society that assists ordinary fellow citizens in achieving lives of flourishing.’ The result is a regime that is ‘left-economic and social-conservative.’” - Public Discourse
“Under the categories of ‘God and Theological Method’ he addresses issues like these: It is important to believe in something, and it does not matter what…Theology puts God in a box…Doctrine divides while love unites” - Challies
“In 1904, thousands of indigenous people were brought to the St. Louis World’s Fair to be put on public display. Scientists offered them as examples of lower stages of human evolution.” - CToday
“Wilson’s Mere Christendom confirms two important ideas… (1) building Christian nations is inherently a postmillennial/paedobaptist project, and (2) forming a robust Christian public theology does not require Christian Nationalism.” - Scott Aniol
“It is too easy to get caught up in the minute, to criticize one sermon, one book, one interview, or one tweet. But journeying from his early years to the work of Redeemer on the streets of New York City, we can see ‘God’s mysterious providence’ in the tapestry of influences.” - Acton
“Among younger adults, for every one person who goes from religiously unaffiliated to affiliating with a religion, there are five people who switch in the opposite direction, toward no religion.” - Public Discourse
“The Christian life was a treadmill, and I was constantly picking up the pace, pushing myself harder and harder. But like a treadmill, there was no destination, no arrival point that signaled the end of all that pushing. There was just … effort.” (116)
With these words Jinger Duggar Vuolo summarizes, in her new book Becoming Free Indeed, what life was like growing up in a family that adhered to the teachings of Bill Gothard.
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