Western Civilization

“Esther O’Reilly joins Shane Morris to discuss the growing number of atheist or agnostic intellectuals—like Jordan Peterson, Tom Holland, and Douglas Murray—who reject Christianity’s historical and faith claims yet also value the faith’s contributions to Western civilization and our shared humanity, to the point that they defend Christianity against those who would ban it from the public square.” -

“Tom Holland’s Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World is a substantial work that makes a straightforward case. In Holland’s view, the teachings of Jesus constituted an ethical revolution that would gradually transform human consciousness, to the extent that we today find it hard to imagine credible alternative systems.” - Christianity Today

“In a new interview on his book, Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization, Samuel Gregg lays out how crucial the integration of reason and faith is to the West and what specific consequences result when reason and faith are separated from each other.” - Acton

“Hardly any comment thread on this blog is without someone blaming Christians and Christianity for war, slavery, oppression, sexism, intolerance…. Bring up the value of Lutheran theology and you can count on accusations that Luther is responsible for Hitler and the Holocaust. So how should Christians respond to such criticisms?” - Gene Veith

Tertullian “asserted that it is a ‘fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.’ He was the first to argue for religious toleration as a general principle and, in so doing, coined the phrase ‘freedom of religion’ (libertas religionis).” - IFWE

“…it tells the story of a dystopian society where all books are banned and people pass their time staring at screens while barely talking to one another. Sound a little like 2019?” - Washington Examiner

Solzhenitsyn’s advice to the free world

“The dissolution of the academy into intersectional turf wars is already an old story. But Williams’ sad tale points to something beyond that. She notes that ‘diversity’ was scarcely mentioned on the panel… ‘The panel wasn’t really about any of that, or even ultimately about race, but rather about how to destroy classics.’” - Robespierre’s road

“Andy Crouch, in his excellent book, Culture Making, ties the Western classical tradition to the creation blessing/mandate of Genesis 1.

“We have always assumed that when we give money to churches and ministries we will receive a tax receipt, but those days may soon be over for organizations that will not bow before one of society’s sacred cows.” - On Living in a Post-Christian Context