Christopher Parr

Maintaining our ancient faith @WitherspoonInst + @FidelityMonth | buying books about HPT: natural law and liberalism | alum @SBTS | Baptist, Husband, Kentuckian

[Sola Media @solamediaorg]

Should Christian Nationalism and Catholic Integralism be taken seriously? @BenSasse answers.

“‘Should they be taken seriously?’ I mean, ultimately I think no — but I want to be humble about how and why we get there.”

“Can people who are skeptical of a lot of Enlightenment assumptions be reasonable in making those cases? Of course. I'm pretty sympathetic to a lot of what the Enlightenment offered us in response to many of the things that had just come before. But that doesn't mean that the Enlightenment is at all a foretaste of heaven.”

“I think there is a temptation right now to have an over-realized eschatology where people want to find a city that has foundations. ‘Right now, dang it, I'm ready to build it and I want it to be better and I want it now. And I want to smash the people who are in the way of it’ is tonally the way a lot of these folks talk.”

“But philosophically, having a debate is one thing and claiming that they're doing practical politics is quite another. So I think it is important, without us, you know, trying to answer a lot of these questions, to at least acknowledge there are Catholic claims about integralism that a lot of Protestants seem to pine for and lust after without working through — what would that really mean?”

“I just look at a lot of the debates of the last two months about women's suffrage and I just kind of want to shake my head and say, ‘Man, this is a weirdo online phenomenon.’ There is no chance on earth that any of these folks who are advancing some sub-varieties of Christian nationalism are actually thinking there's math by which they're going to end women's suffrage. And yet they talk like it. Because online, it seems really provocative to say things like that. And I don't really know what it's worth to linger on some of these silly online debates.”

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[Coolidge Foundation @CoolidgeFdn]

Radical and Conservative

Yuval Levin, writing in the Coolidge Review, argues the American Revolution was both radical and conservative.

“These traditions have often existed in tension, as was the case in Britain in the late eighteenth century. But one striking aspect of the American Founding was that the two strands complemented rather than competed with each other.”

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[Samuel Gregg @DrSamuelGregg]

Thanks @RealClearHistry for highlighting my @CoolidgeFdn article on the contribution of Francis Hutcheson🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿to the #DeclarationOfIndependence #America250 🇺🇸https://t.co/WeAGEZeSEd

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

Grateful to @Hillsdale President @DrLarryArnn for this piece on Christian aspects of the Declaration of Independence at @AdFontesJournal. It is excellent and worthy of your consideration. Link below.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

This is a truly great piece by John Wilsey. https://t.co/UZ56DE9oE1

[Christopher Parr @cwrightparr]

https://t.co/thkxqkTmZ6

[Christopher Parr @cwrightparr]

1. The question of religious toleration/freedom of conscience is distinct from the questions of religious acknowledgement or establishment.

2. Washington's observation here is significant: "The citizens of the USA have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind...

[Christopher Parr @cwrightparr]

"of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Gov of the US, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens..."

[Nicholas Spencer @nspencer513]

Congrats to the X-less Dr. John Wilsey of @SBTS!

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." That, as Lincoln said, is "our ancient faith"--the inherent and equal dignity of each and every member and the human family.

[David Decosimo @DavidDecosimo]

On the debate about great books & secondary lit or expertise, both sides are right. For most classics, it’s possible to have rich, even transformative reading & discussion without secondary lit & with a good teacher who lacks much contextual knowledge, let alone expertise.
BUT…

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Most reviews of the vice president’s new memoir, ‘Communion,’ have been shaped by the writers’ opinions of his politics. I choose to take him at his word. https://t.co/bLlzDBVR66

[Christopher Parr @cwrightparr]

@LigonDuncan @MackenzieCarine @Christian_Focus @MeltonDuncan That’s a great church!

[Christopher Parr @cwrightparr]

@regressivewhig I was just about to tag you.

[Tim Chapman @TimChapman]

If you are in DC this Wednesday come by @AmericanFreedom and learn from the one and only, @McCormickProf!

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Friends in the Washington, DC area, you are welcome to register here for our Wednesday, June 17, 9:30 am Breakfast for Advancing American Freedom, where Tim Chapman and I will be discussing the Fidelity movement.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Well now, look what we have here. Something advertising itself as a "center for the defense of academic freedom" is gearing up a campaign of vilification against programs that are revitalizing civic education at colleges and universities around the nation and helping to ensure that students are exposed to a diverse range of viewpoints. I suppose it's not surprising that people who have enjoyed a virtual ideological monopoly would fight tooth and nail to keep it. That's how monopolists work.

[Christopher Parr @cwrightparr]

Today!

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Friday, June 5th, 1:00 pm Eastern Time: "We Hold These Truths" a Fidelity Month discussion of the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Register for this online event below.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

People with Down Syndrome are human beings. They are, as such, bearers of profound, inherent, and equal dignity and the right to life. To target them for extermination on the basis of their condition is as wicked as targeting people on account of their race, sex, or ethnicity.