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Authority, Modernity, & Church Disintegration
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (681+ words) (Yes, this is the second early Diary you’ve had in a row. Don’t get comfortable, my dears! I wrote this one last night, because I’m traveling this morning.) Boy, I can’t recommend strongly enough Yale historian Carlos Eire’s thick book…...
Are Pastors Being Prepared For Disclosure?
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (831+ words) Walter Kirn, I think it is, has a theory that there are different factions in the US Government who are battling behind the scenes over who will control the forthcoming disclosure, and that this accounts for the leaks, the contradictions,…...
Ben Sasse's Golgotha
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (1265+ words) I said I wasn’t going to publish on Orthodox Good Friday, so I’m writing this on Thursday. There is nothing I could possibly write that would top the testimony that Christian man, heroic in his suffering, says in the interview....
Not My Kind Of Christian Nationalism
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (17+ words) Comments - Not My Kind Of Christian Nationalism Rod Dreher's Diary Keep reading with a 7-day free trial...
Houston: 'I'm In Here"
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (1395+ words) But anyway, look, I want to introduce you to a book that came as a gift, in ways that maybe Katie Asher did not intend. You make up your own mind. Let’s begin. Houston’s story turns around Chapter 32, when, then…...
Epstein, History, And Human Nature
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (740+ words) roddreher.substack.com Epstein, History, And Human Nature And: Shaw's Triumph; God & Telos; Humanities' Woke Captivity; Nixon Vs Deep State Here’s an uncomfortable truth about the Epstein accusations: If one reads Tom Holland’s Dominion, David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions, Sarah…...