As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Today that “fusionism” is being challenged by a new kind of conservatism that favors big government, a centrally controlled economy, and nationalistic populism. As Republicans try to sort out what kind of conservatives they are, an important strain of the coalition that Reagan brought together risks being overlooked: the cultural conservatives.” - Gene Veith
“this is not a verse giving us a blueprint for modern nation states’ immigration policy. Piper didn’t say it was. This verse is not saying that nations don’t have a right to enforce their borders. Piper didn’t say that it was. This is a verse giving a general principle—God wants you to treat the outsider well—and giving Israel a specific reminder for why they should do that.” - P&D
“The White House Religious Liberty Commission was right to remove a member who derailed hearings with anti-Semitic antics” - World
“Both sides hate the ‘establishment.’… A related commonality is both side’s hatred of institutions. The Left is skeptical of institutions like marriage, parenthood, laws, institutional religion, corporations, the government.
“In a recent column for The New York Times, Ezra Klein proclaims that Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have killed the ‘vibe shift.’ The cultural momentum that conservatives gained post-pandemic, particularly in the last year of the Biden presidency, is gone, Klein writes.
“To understand my view, we must go to the roots of identity politics. Liberal political organizer L.A. Kauffman defines the concept as ‘the belief that identity itself—its elaboration, expression, or affirmation—is and should be a fundamental focus of political work.’” - CToday
The phrase “sheep in wolves’ clothing” caught me off guard when a friend recently used it to accuse me of being a political progressive in disguise—a supposed infiltrator pretending to be a conservative. It blindsided me, not because I feared the label, but because it revealed how fractured our moral and political rhetoric has become. I hadn’t changed much, but the public square around me had. Our definitions of conservatism, liberty, and morality have drifted so far from their roots that holding to their original meaning now looks subversive.
“This article isn’t a justification for Gen Z’s political trajectory, nor is it an endorsement. Think of it as reconnaissance. This is a trip into the mindset of a generation that feels betrayed—and into the ideologues who have successfully captured that frustration and weaponized it.” - CPost
“When the young and activist militants on the disaffected Right reduce Winston Churchill to the status of a dangerous forerunner of neoconservative foreign policy, or see in Ronald Reagan nothing but a sterile libertarianism—ignoring his courage and determination to defeat the scourge of communist totalitarianism, and his eloquent appeals to faith, community, and patriotic devotion to country—or facilely dismiss the pugnacious and brilliant William F. Buckley, Jr.
“These trends start out in small groups of people that are not large enough to be taken seriously by ‘successful’ leaders. These small communities then cultivate the fads until a couple people with bigger platforms adopt them. And then, seemingly suddenly, they are everywhere.” - Russell Moore
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