https://christianconcern.com/comment/the-mission-of-god-includes-politics/
Reading the summaries of this conference, I'm left shaking my head - more distractions, more confusion. The New Testament knows nothing of what they're talking about. They are cherry picking a few texts and reading a lot of assumptions into them.
*updated 17 Nov 25
https://clearlyreformed.org/in-search-of-chivalry/
https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-wilson-moscow-mood.html
DeYoung is to be commended for his challenge to Doug Wilson and his cultish and even fascistic understanding of masculinity. I was thus surprised to find this article by DeYoung in celebration of Medieval Knighthood and its supposed virtues. In reality, DeYoung presents us with an idealised and even romanticised portrait of Christendom's warrior class. The reality is something quite different.
https://cne.news/article/4851-why-one-nation-can-never-serve-two-masters
We read in Matthew 6.24:
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Not long ago I head Charlie Kirk twist this passage and use it to justify nationalism. You have to serve and love your country or not. You can't have divided loyalty. It was a complete distortion of the passage as it actually precludes the very nationalism Kirk was arguing for. Kirk was advocating a divided loyalty that contradicted the words of Christ.
Marshall's podcast used to be a bit more substantive and I would listen to learn things about the Right-wing Catholic take on certain controversies. But lately the show has turned more often than not into a kind of dog and pony show, an ongoing advertisement for his books. Often he's spending most of his time attempting to pseudo-referee live social media interactions - which are clearly rigged. Most of the time I don't bother to listen and more than a few times I've just turned him off. He's currently pushing his new book on patriotism and so I thought I would give it another try and listen to an episode.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Museum-of-Christian-Culture-opens-in-St.-Petersburg-53335.html
It is entirely appropriate that this farcical museum contains
a Constantine Room, for this form of counterfeit Christianity has its genesis
in the fourth century. Begun by Constantine, the Christianisation project would
be completed by the reign of Theodosius II. Seventeen centuries later the
Church has never recovered from it and its poison has worked its way into the
farthest recesses of the Church on Earth. Indeed there are few who seem able to
question its basic suppositions, and even fewer who can divorce their thinking
from its assumptions.
