Douglas Wilson

Minister of Christ Church (@christ_kirk) in Moscow, Idaho

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New book out . . . https://t.co/yCZ78hb1Iu

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Normal and Jesus
“But you can’t have normal without Jesus. And furthermore, if you have Jesus, that will bring you straight back to normal. Jesus and metrosexual do not go together. Jesus and artificial wombs do not go together. Jesus and VR sex do not go together. Jesus and prancing men in the offertory do not go together. Jesus and 57 genders do not go together. Virtually every outrageous thing we read about today is being served up to us from the macrobes” (The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 160).

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Where Pert is Still a Compliment
“The sophisticati among us almost never engage, which is why some pert Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader is closer to the kingdom than is some gender-sensitive lit prof at Wheaton College” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 105).

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Unattainable Randomness
"A godless, Christless cosmos—impossible even to imagine, even for the sake of argument—is a fragmented pile. Worse than a pile, it j^&%n*&i^5—fully and completely senseless. Even such random keystrokes exhibit far more order than is conceivable without Him; they move in a straight line, left to right. Order and sense are inescapable because we live in the world God made. Education instructs a student how to think about the world, how to think about the universe. But he cannot be taught how to think about the universe if he doesn't know he lives in one" (The Paideia of God, p. 122).

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Beware of the Hot Words
“Nothing ages more rapidly than the current lust for contemporary relevance, and nothing ages more gracefully than an attitude of caring more about whether an observation is true than whether it is contemporary, or edgy, or emergent. Emergent was a hot word back then” (The Cultural Mind, pp. xiii-xiv).

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There Are Better Ways
“They see the soft evangelical ‘culturally engaged’ center lusting after the respect of the world, and willing to lick dirt to get it. As an aside, licking dirt is not a great strategy for gaining respect” (Mere Christendom, p. 56).

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Uncle God
"Our contemporary theism is really a pathetic and sorry affair. We want an avuncular figure in the sky, someone to hand out celestial candies when we are feeling a little blue" (Angels in the Architecture, p. 42).

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And again I say, boo!
https://t.co/em9SvRpGAu
In their long fight for diversity, progressives are frequently astonished to find out that there is some. And then they don't know which direction to look.

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Don't ask me why, but I just went back and reread the Antioch Declaration. And what a necessary thing that was . . . https://t.co/7FgEKkgWiL

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Works Both Ways
“The liberties of the individual are too precious to be left in the hands of a civic agnosticism. To not know why you are extending liberties to the citizenry is to not know why you would be doing anything bad if you took them all away” (Mere Christendom, p. 5).

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@William_Gouge_X @ZrimecSteve Single men who are still supported by their parents can't be voting members because they are not yet self-sustaining households. Single men who are not dependents of course vote.

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Totalitolerance
“Without an exhaustive rule through the predestinating love of the Father, unbelieving men will always see a job opening. They will want to fill that gap. They mimic the Father’s omnipotence, which is where we get the totalitarian part. They also try to mimic His love, which is how we get the tolerance farce. And so it is that we find ourselves suffocating under this totalitolerance” (Mere Christendom, p. 118).

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A Lover Not a Fighter
"But the Bible requires Christian leaders to know such issues, requiring in effect that Christian shepherds know what a wolf looks like. A man can be orthodox and yet be disqualified for ministry. A man can like the sheep without being qualified to fight the wolves" ("Epilogue" in Bound Only Once, p. 220).

[Will Spencer @willspencer]

I am deeply grateful to the faculty, staff, and students of @NewSaintAndrews tor the opportunity to speak on these subjects at Disputatio.

The perspectives I share are based on both experience and intentional study. As I say in the speech itself, 3500 pages of reading this year alone. And counting.

I provide an introductory bibliography in the talk, and can happily recommend much more.

On a personal note, I believe this subject is of grave moral and civilizational urgency. This is not academic or abstract. It involves real men, real lives, real churches, and real choices that are before us.

As such, I do not believe this will be addressed by the words and actions of men alone. Yes it will take moral courage to speak in strong dissent. But it will also take the movement of the Holy Spirit to inspire that dissent with biblical faithfulness to prevent yet another overcorrection.

As men and women we take leaps of faith when we act while trusting in God and being uncertain of the outcome. We act in righteousness without guarantee, because that is what He commands.

I am told this is a core part of Christian history, and that the great saints of the past two millennia have done so.

No one wishes for that time to be their own. But as a wise man once said, that is not for us to decide.

All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

May these words inspire my brothers and sisters to act and speak with boldness.

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@USPoliticTheory @AndrewTWalker Because the laws we are telling them to repeal are NATIONAL laws.

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Everybody Is Covered
God “has required that you love your wife, love your neighbor, and love your enemy. Everybody you meet will be at least one of those” (Rules, p. 74).

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"I do treat public enemies and private enemies differently, but the difference should not be in whether I am loving them or not."
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A brief post on the lawfulness of veal . . . https://t.co/rGtZkKuN8V

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As In, No Bueno
“One of my daughters described the youth ministries of many churches as ‘potato salad at room temperature.’ Sleepovers! Lock-ins! Back rubs! Jesus!” (Concise and to the Point, p. 58).