Peter Carblis

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

The dumbest "debate" in Catholic circles these days is about whether to prioritize questions of justice or those of sexual morality. Not only are both profoundly important, they are deeply connected. Someone would have to be willfully blind not to see the ravages of the sexual revolution. Its countless victims--from unborn babies, to fatherless children, to porn-addicted boys (and, increasingly, girls), to victims of human trafficking and sexual abuse, to a plague of STDs, to abandoned "partners" and spouses, and on and on--are victims of injustice. We owe it to them, as a matter of justice, to stand up and speak out for principles of sexual morality whose abandonment has produced much of the carnage.

It's obviously true that justice and morality pertain to a vast range of questions, not just those involving sexual conduct and misconduct. It is no less true, however, that justice and morality do pertain to sexual matters and that the abandonment of norms of sexual morality has imposed grave injustices on a massive number of victims.

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

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[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

I endorse every word of this powerful and timely essay by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. These are words that every Catholic and indeed every Christian needs to hear and take to heart in this moment.
https://t.co/eElhwuOuK1

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

In my four decades of professional academic life I've observed that Robert Conquest's First Law holds. Most of my colleagues are left-leaning. More than a few are far left-leaning. Some, though, hold conservative views in one or a few areas. Almost invariably, those are areas in which they have actual expertise.

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

An Unmerry Hitchmas https://t.co/A9o0PucYKz

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

The challenges Protestants face are serious. But if we have the humility to learn from others, we will find that there are models and resources readily available to help us think through how we might respond to our cultural moment. https://t.co/kdCCBOP5np

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Can we be friends with people with whom we have deep moral and political disagreements?

Yes.

1. We can and must love each other despite deep disagreements. And we must honor each other's right to freedom of thought and speech.

2. Please do not demand conformity to your own opinions as the price of friendship. Never submit to someone's demand for conformity to his or her opinions as friendship's price.

3. Friends who have differences can respectfully challenge each other's ideas, but each must be willing to be the one challenged and not just the one doing the challenging. They must recognize their own fallibility, and each must consider that he or she might be the one in error.

4. Friends don't indulge in manipulative rhetoric or attempt to win debates by dictating the terms of the discussion or controlling the language of the discourse. Friends don't try to police each others thoughts or language. Friends let friends make arguments in their own terms.

5. If you are an ideologue, a dogmatist, you will have trouble being friends with people with whom you disagree. If you don't have friends who disagree with you on important moral and political questions, you should ask yourself whether you've become an ideologue, a dogmatist.

6. Everyone *notionally* understands his or her own fallibility. But notionally isn't enough. The test comes when someone disagrees with you about something you regard as profoundly important--when someone dissents from your deepest, most cherished, even identity-forming beliefs.

7. When it comes to our deepest personal and political commitments--things that most matter to us--we human beings find it very hard to believe we could be wrong. It takes genuine strength of character--and courage--truly, and not merely notionally, to recognize our fallibility.

8. Fellow truth-seekers can be friends because they recognize their own fallibility and are willing to be challenged, as well as to challenge. They're eager to learn from each other. Unlike ideologues, they don't allow infatuation with their own opinions to impede pursuit of truth.

9. Friends demand only this of each other in political discussions and debates: honesty, civility, and a willingness to do business in the proper currency of truth-seeking discourse, a currency consisting of reasons, evidence, and arguments.

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

@internetarchive Deeply appreciated

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

The Complicated Authority of the Bible https://t.co/FO18kBLgpJ via @YouTube

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

@geoffholsclaw I have recently completed a thesis asking what does a spiritually formed person look like and derived an answer by unpacking the terms of the New Covenant as per Heb. 8:10.

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

ALRC proposals would strip schools of freedoms https://t.co/WdZIQwoPTL

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

Sign the petition: Sign the Open Letter calling for Religious Freedom First https://t.co/aHG4QqCeAL

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Critical Grace Theory by Carl R. Trueman | Articles | First Things https://t.co/DfkbAnt65P

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The Voice: A Distraction from Real Problems | John Anderson https://t.co/e2RQTMoE50 via @YouTube

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The Popular Beliefs That Erode True Inclusivity — https://t.co/aeGa5VIb9k https://t.co/lnJrR3CKMk

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Child euthanasia – the next stop on the slippery slope – Remarks delivered to Oxford University Students – May 16th, 2023 https://t.co/6b5Dmn2oYt

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

The evidence is abundant that from a personal as well as a public perspective, we are most likely to flourish when faithful, monogamous, natural-law marriages are plentiful and the norm. https://t.co/NwHCPYRV2g

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

I just subscribed to Mark Durie Blog https://t.co/DpRC1o3ClN

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

I wish secular people could see their most fundamental moral ideals come from the Bible (T.Holland), and without the biblical view of the universe, won't be sustained. I wish Christians could see the church has failed in profound ways to practice those ideals (C.Taylor).

[Peter Carblis @PeterCarblis]

I just uploaded 'Chapter 8 The Preface Covenant Faithfulness - Part of "Educating for Virtue: Using…' to @academia! https://t.co/cso1sQb2k9