The conservatism that markets itself through soundbites and “hot takes” might work well as light entertainment on Twitter or YouTube, but it will really offer no deep diagnosis of our contemporary cultural problems.
The last few months of chaos over the issue of gay marriage seem finally to have done what decades of doctrinal indifferentism and even the advent of women priests failed to achieve: An Evangelical rebellion among the Church of England’s most committed evangelical congregations.
Only when we stop exchanging isolated Bible verses and set those verses within the broader framework of a truly Christian anthropology — one that takes embodiment, dependence and obligation seriously — will we avoid the tragic errors and sins that mark the Christian past.
Protests do not always need to be obnoxious, like the one at Stanford. Some weeks ago, I was myself subject to a protest while speaking at another college.
If tradition is useless, something that needs to be overcome, then the reason for monarchy has long since gone.
When it comes to the laws of progressive culture, he who is guilty in one point is guilty in all.
Any Christian leader who manages to separate mercy from rules in such a way as to prioritize the former over the latter would not really be merciful at all.
The tawdry Achord affair has revealed an ugly side to a certain part of the American Christian world. Real white supremacy really exists and is a real sin. It requires real action and real repentance from those Christians who espouse it.
Orthodox Protestants in America can now have clarity on the way forward and the choices that lie before them.
We live in an age marked by infantile ingratitude. And if Scruton is right, that means we live in an age when we do not really know how to live at all. Ingratitude has dehumanized us.
