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Liberals suffer incurably from naïveté, the stupidity of the good heart.

Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

“Even if a group of people can agree on how to treat people in the moment, consensus can change at any moment. Today’s virtues can become tomorrow’s vices. Like a sand castle, the tenets of morality can be destroyed by the tide of public opinion.” — David Pernell

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But it also feels true that the contemporary novel is having a crisis of morality. Not in the Aesop’s fable sort of way. But in the way that a novel is supposed to capture the specific, particular instability of human relations, and in that instability, it captures the truth about what it is to live in the world. And it feels more and more that whe

blgtylr.substack.com • A Dark Room on the Other Side of the World

Because as religion goes away, evil does not, contrary to the projections of Dawkins and his cohort. And secular hopes for universal justice and benevolence can’t be built on a mere “subtraction theory.”

Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor

a Christian college or church ceases to be relevant when it abandons its conviction-driven distinctions to fit the prevailing winds of politics and culture.

Brett McCracken • Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community

Isn’t this normal? After all, no writer can be expected to cover every topic. In an age of disaggregation, we should read from experts instead of casual polymaths.

Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast

It would sure make things easy if this election were a simple contest of good versus evil. But this is the way of thinking that is tearing the world apart. Those who think that way always consider themselves to be members of Team Good, of course. If your opponent is evil incarnate, then any means to stop him are justified.

Charles Eisenstein • Shades of Many Colors

For nonreligious people, the preference is to view things as acceptable until and unless they must be forbidden, to err on the side of freedom. For the evangelical left, however, the world is defined by what is acceptable, and everything outside this acceptability is wrong and bad. The scales are tipped heavily against anything outside their norms.