Jehovah and the Midterms

As far as all this uproar concerns the church, the real culprit in our midst is the white evangelical squish. He is full to the brim with moderation and his own good intentions. He overflows with them, and he is standing in the slop. And he absolutely refuses to understand what is going on.You can pick up the FREE ebook 'Leadership and the Sin of Empathy' by Joe Rigney Here: https://in.canonpress.com/leadership-and-the-sin-of-empathy-kindleGet FREE physical books here: https://noquarternovember.comGet the complete Ashtown Burials series at https://ashtownburials.comGrab Douglas Wilson's Free ebook 'Notes for Elders on the Way' Here: https://dougwils.com/product/notes-for-elders-on-the-wayRead Pastor Douglas Wilson's full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/wednesday-rant-2.htmlFor more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Over many years of counseling and teaching, I have discovered that one of the most difficult lessons for men to learn is the distinction between guilt and responsibility. I believe that this is a difficult lesson for any man to learn in this fallen world, but our egalitarian generation has made it many times more difficult. This has been done through its resentful revolt against masculinity itself, coupled with its signature reflex move of routinely “blaming the man.”You can pick up the FREE ebook 'No Time to Be Dumb” by Rachel Jankovic Here: https://in.canonpress.com/no-time-yt Get FREE physical books here: https://noquarternovember.comGet the complete Ashtown Burials series at https://ashtownburials.comGrab Douglas Wilson's Free ebook 'Letters of Marital Counseling' Here: https://dougwils.com/product/letters-...Grab Douglas Wilson's Free ebook 'Letters to a Rootless White Kid' Here: https://dougwils.com/product/letters-...Read Pastor Douglas Wilson's full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-cultur...For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

This is the last regularly scheduled post before I move into NQN beast mode and, as it turns out, it is also the last post before the midterms—those foreboding midterms. I have something of a rag bag of thoughts for you all on that topic, and so I have put them down for you in no particular order. Each one will be contained by a paragraph, and each paragraph will be asked to be its own distinct rag.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqBwHBzBkI IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

So when the Christ finally appeared, it seemed pretty clear to everyone what He was going to do. The most natural thing in the world to assume was that He would be manifested in power and glory, He would bare His right arm, and deliver the people of Israel. This assumption was even shared by the Lord’s disciples. He would destroy the Romans, and establish Israel as a free and prosperous kingdom, and He would do it all by kicking butt and taking names…Now they were right about the greater work of power—which is what the resurrection was—but they failed to budget for the humiliation that would need to happen first, setting the stage for the resurrection. In order to make a resurrection possible, it was necessary for Him to die.Read Pastor Douglas Wilson's full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s21-atheism-and-apologetics/glory-and-the-gibbit.htmlGet the complete Ashtownburials Quartet at ashtownburials.comBlog and Mablog is presented by Canon PressFor more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU5TRNgxk5I IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Godless secularism has no center, no arche. The Void provides no foundation for stable governance, and moreover cannot do so. Instead of getting magistrates with integrity, you get existential philosophy professors talking learnedly of despair, smoking cigarettes, and boinking undergraduates….In contrast to all such vapid nonsense, every nation needs to turn to Christ. In the case of France, they need to return to Christ.Read Pastor Douglas Wilson’s full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/go-home-europe-youre-drunk.html  Get your copy of the Ashtown Burials Quartet at ashtownburials.com  Blog and Mablog is presented by Canon PressFor more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUmrzdqpXZM IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

There are two sorts of unity that are set before us in this memorial, one of them rebellious and idolatrous, and the other submissive and obedient. By confusing the languages, God scattered an early attempt at rebellious unity at Babel, the forerunner of all globalist attempts to govern the world apart from Christ. The thing that made this rebellious unity sinful was not the unity per se, but rather the fact that the unity was being built on a rebellious foundation. The problem was not the unity, but rather the fact that the unity was idolatrous and hostile to Heaven. Of course, such unity is not really a true unity at allRead Pastor Douglas Wilson's full blog here: https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/our-memorial-on-nations-comments-and-observations.htmlFor more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HCGi09z4A8 IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Put this another way. Suppose Hassan were going to be hanged in a stadium. Nothing wrong with that. Do you let vendors sell popcorn and hot dogs? Of course not. Do you sell tickets? Of course not. You obviously must have tickets, but they would have to be apportioned by lottery. Executions must not be allowed to degenerate into a commercial enterprise. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkie7B2_vs IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Just a few short days ago, Dinesh D’Souza decided to start talking trash about Calvinism online, and—let us be frank—that created something of a set-to. The imbroglio consisted of two parts. One part had to do with the standard doctrinal questions which naturally arise whenever these questions come up. “Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?”. How can God be sovereign and at the same time man be free and responsible? I will just note in passing that this standard objection to Calvinism shows up in the New Testament as a standard objection to Pauline theology. Somebody should explain that. Just saying.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_zDz7JjTI IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

Last week Eric Erickson published an article that claimed to have connected a lot of dots on what has come to be called the Woke Right. That article is here. He traced a lot of our woes back to Charles Haywood, a big donor on the hard right, and formulator of the “no enemies to the right” approach, and which Erickson claimed has led to lots of bad stuff.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

One of the intellectual problems that conservative Christians have is that they have allowed evolutionary assumptions to seep into their understanding of human history downstream from the question of our origins. They deny the theory of evolution proper, as well they ought, considering it to be, in the words of Malcolm Muggeridge, “one of the great jokes of history.” This is fine and good, as we all need a good laugh from time to time. But the discussions and debates about evolution all tend to center on the early chapters of Genesis, intelligent design, and arguments about how the Grand Canyon formed.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.