@megbasham Reminds me of Roger Kimball's phrase "The odor of piety that attends these rituals of exculpation is almost as disagreeable as the aura of grotesque unreality that emanates from them."
You are torn apart by these many loves, restless everywhere and nowhere at peace. Gather yourself together into your real self. If anything outside you has been giving you joy, ask who is its author.
– Augustine
@drantbradley At the 48 minute mark in Charlie's conversation with Gavin Newsom, he says there is no one willing or able to intellectually joust 'with no script, no hard breaks, no producers in the ears..."
@PastorMoebetta@megbasham@sgruber91 You can see it in Keller’s appropriation of Kuyper’s famous “every square inch” dictum, which admittedly functions differently in a theocratically oriented and pillarized 1900’s in the Netherlands than it does in the 2000’s in NYC and US.
"Errors about creatures are symptomatic of a spiritual disorder, and they must be healed by one's paying attention to the truth of Scripture." @John_B_Webster@WebsterTheology
"Christian hope is the consecration of desire, and desire is the hardest thing of all to consecrate. That will only happen as you begin to think how lovely the life according to Christ is." William Temple