Category Archives: Culture war

3 Things Christians Must Do to Rebuild Culture

Touchstone talk by Jonathan Pageau. Video here (prompted at the right place).

From the video description:

I explore how our modern world—built on endless disruption and self-expression—has reached its breaking point. We’re witnessing the collapse of a culture that forgot its source, but that’s also at the beginnings of renewal. From art and architecture to worship and storytelling, I share how Christians can remember, celebrate, and create once again—recovering beauty, meaning, and participation in the divine order. This is a moment of opportunity: to rediscover Christ as the pattern of reality and rebuild culture on that foundation.

OWNING CHARLIE: Christian Evangelist, Apologist & Martyr

In this podcast episode, Dr. Michael Thiessen, Pastor Nate Wright, and Dr. Joe Boot discuss the implications of Charlie Kirk’s death and the church’s response to it. They express concern over the reluctance of many church leaders to acknowledge Kirk’s martyrdom and the broader cultural implications of this silence. The conversation delves into the truncation of the gospel, the political nature of the Christian message, and the need for the church to engage with cultural issues rather than retreating into silence. They emphasize the importance of recognizing the gospel as a transformative force in society and the necessity of addressing violence and injustice from a biblical perspective.

Vacant See: Vacant Minds

Article by Sebastian Wang.

Excerpts:

It is a strange age when ugliness is redefined as inclusion. When Canterbury Cathedral — seat of St Augustine, cradle of English Christianity, a place where kings once trembled before God — is reduced to a billboard for discontent and self-pity, one begins to understand how deep the spiritual rot now runs.

The true scandal is not the graffiti itself but the fact that the clergy are proud of it.

It is not a church but a performance venue with a cross on the roof.

When the Church chooses ugliness, she teaches a lie about herself and about God.

It’s the End of the Age, NYTimesies

Article by Christopher Chantill.

Quotes:

It looks like our liberal friends wanted to use the firing of Jimmy Kimmel as a narrative to neuter the Charlie Kirk assassination. That was then. But now, after the speech by Charlie’s widow, Erika Kirk, who cares?

[. . .]

Twenty years ago, Lukacs wrote that the Modern Age at its height was the Age of the Bourgeois, for its minds and creators were mostly of bourgeois origins and status that replaced the nobles of the Middle Ages.

I say that the new age will be an age of the ordinary. The future will belong to energetic youngsters like the TPUSAers we saw and heard at the Charlie Kirk memorial. And his widow, Erika Kirk.

It’s okay, NYTimesies. We forgive you.