The point of this podcast is pretty broad — “All of Christ for all of life.” In order to make that happen, we need “theology that bites back.” I want to advance what you might call a Chestertonian Calvinism, and to bring that attitude to bear on education, sex and culture, theology, politics, book reviews, postmodernism, expository studies, along with other random tidbits that come into my head. My perspective is usually not hard to discern. In theology I am an evangelical, postmill, Calvinist,…
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IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . A decade ago, Canon published Empires of Dirt , and given our cultural moment now, the subtitle is interesting to look back on. That subtitle was “Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative.” In some respects, the terrain back then was quite different than it is today, but in other…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . In Doug's continued dialogue with Ehud, Wilson's talk about the 'King of the Jews' ... According to the “Christ-killer” taunt that some misguided souls have leveled at the Jews, the idea is that the Jewish people are collectively and uniquely responsible for the execution of their Messiah, Jesus of…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Doug Wilson begins a new series of letters to "Tyler," a fictional husband who is navigating some difficult issues in his marriage. Let me summarize what you are up against. You’ve been married for 35 years, with some periods where it was “okay, not great” and other times when it was pretty rocky. At the…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . In order to discuss the point I wish to make here, we must begin with the realization that feminism is a wasting disease. But to be more precise, it is a particular variant of the wasting disease—the foundational disease being egalitarianism. The virus that makes this disease and all its variants so…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . I want to begin with a proposal for a particular pro-life amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Having done so in this introduction, I will then outline in summary form the advantages of this approach. I will then touch on a key distinction to help us understand the fact that there is more…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . I acknowledge at the outset that this apologia for my activities might seem like I am trying to aim my answers in two different directions, but I also want to maintain that this is not my fault. This article about me was conflicted and could not make up its mind. Am I too tall or too short? Being charged…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Darryl begins (I am going to keep this amicable by calling him Darryl) by staking out one position as articulated by one Samuel Goldman, that position being a call for a renewed civil religion. That’s on one end. On the other end of things would be that skeery-scary Christian nationalism. And Darryl wants…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . In Doug's continued dialogue with Ehud, Wilson's talk about the 'King of the Jews' ... We have considered Christ in His offices of prophet and priests, and so we come now to the third one—the office of king. 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 . Technology in warfare can certainly evolve and develop in ways that do not disrupt our basic understanding of what is going on. From the day that two tribes were throwing rocks at each other to the time when two nation states were launching missiles at each other, with the era of trebuchets in between,…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Over the last year or so, from time to time you may have wondered to yourself why I have taken it into my head to go around talking about the 19th Amendment so much. This, along with my supposed interest in repealing the right of women to vote. Why on earth would I ever do something like that? Well, you…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So when die-hard defenders of Candace try to say, as they will try to say, “Candace never said that Erika Kirk was in on the plot to kill Charlie!” or “Candace never denied that Tyler Robinson did it!” the reply should be, “Roll the tape.” And the way you can tell that radical relativism is the captain of…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . In my last letter, I was emphasizing the prophetic office of Christ. He was the greater prophet who had been promised by Moses (Deut. 18:15). But I also need to present Christ to you as the one who holds two additional offices. John Calvin famously described the Lord’s three combined offices as the…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . The Supreme Court’s failure last week to uphold the president’s executive order on birthright citizenship was genuinely disappointing. At the same time, it should not be an occasion for outrage or despair. There is all kinds of maneuvering room here. And. when you have maneuvering room, there are better…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So, America. Happy birthday to you. You are now 250 years old, which is halfway to 500. We still have plenty of time to fix all of this. Don’t let the astonishing fact of commies getting elected interfere with your celebrations. That is like coming down with a case of the shingles, but you still get your…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . In this letter, I am going to start with the understanding that you have a high respect for Scripture. Although you are not yet at the point of affirming complete faith in its divine inspiration, you do take the prophets seriously, and have some sense of scriptural authority. You grew up with it, and it…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . We are going to be talking about Nazis in just a bit, but we need to start with something else first. Bear with me. It will all flow together shortly, as when you fold whipped egg whites into the batter for chiffon cake. Something like that, at any rate. One searches for the right words. For more from…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . If He did not rise, then as the apostle Paul noted, we Christians are the most pitiable creatures ever (1 Cor. 15:19). If He did rise from the dead, then He is the promised Messiah that the entire Old Testament was pointing toward. That would make the Jews the most to be pitied. This would mean that the…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So let us talk about that impotent contemporary ritual called the “land acknowledgment.” Nowadays when an event or activity is going to be taking place somewhere, or an institution is opening, the proceedings will often begin with a land acknowledgment. This is a little empty gesture recognizing the…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Cultural gaslighting is attempted when people in charge of something take some absurdity, throw a saddle on it, and then stand next to it, booted, spurred, and ready to ride. For example, the absurdity could be saying that the attempted beheading in Ireland was the result of us not being welcoming and…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . The system of anarcho/tyranny begins by being slack with native criminals, and harsh with those who resist them. A homeowner who defends his property against a burglar can get in far more trouble than the burglars do. In the UK, you can get in more trouble for posting a meme about violent immigrants than…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . I was born in 1953, and therefore have to confess that I am a boomer, right there in the middle of the pack. There were boomers ahead of me, and boomers behind me, and absolutely everybody in my third grade class was also a boomer. Although we didn’t call ourselves that at the time. Sad to say, we were…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So last Thursday the first part of the PCA’s study report on Christian nationalism dropped. For those who would check it out, here you go. The following is what I tweeted at the time, and so here we are...Before getting to my promised awkward questions, let me start by saying what was good about the…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . The name Israel was given to Jacob at Peniel (Gen. 32) when he was on his way to reunite with his brother Esau—doing so while not knowing if that reunion was going to be bloody or not. God had told him to return, and had promised that such a return would be blessed. But this was a promise that Jacob had…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . I think we should be frank with one another at this point and just acknowledge that the world is having itself an upheaval. If this is not the Fourth Turning that Howe and Strauss wrote about back in the day, it is bidding fair to approximate some kind of white water turning. As the saying goes, “first…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . The Declaration famously says that we are “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.”... The American Founding was a creationist event, and precisely because it was a creationist event, we have enjoyed a truly solid foundation for the blessings of liberty. For more from Doug, subscribe to…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . What I am addressing here is the rank and manifest hypocrisy. In the original tweet, my point was that a hypocrite has no right to proclaim that Christ is king over all when it is manifestly clear that He is not king of his own mouth, or keyboard, or meme strategies. How can you declare that Christ is…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . I have already raised the central concern that we should have concerning AI, which is the problem that I have identified as AI-dolatry. AI excels at role-playing and has no scruples about role-playing as the Most High God...When professional worriers express their concerns about the impact of AI, it is…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Your parents are the most important relationship in your life right now....And your parents have been constant, and they are number one to you right now. If you were to come to Christ, He insists upon taking that primary place, which means that your parents would then be necessarily demoted. For more from…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . I don’t want to seem ungrateful because I really have benefited much from the contributions of what might be called “Banner of Truth” postmillennialism. However, the emphasis with this strand of theology is almost entirely focused on the gigantic ticker tape parade of evangelism, mission work, intense…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Candace began her public career as an ambitious leftist climber. She then had a “conversion” to conservatism as signaled by her Blexit move… After Charlie’s death, what should have been a unifying moment for conservatives if ever there was one, she began an unrelenting attack on Turning Point, Erika, and…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Ben Sasse is dying in public, and knows that he has very limited time remaining on this earth. He sees it coming, and is looking straight at it. And so we can see his faith, his courage, and his wisdom. It is on display for us, and it is obviously the real thing. Christ is there. For more from Doug,…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . We are of course talking about the indictments that were just handed down by the Department of Justice. Now of course all the usual cautions apply—an indictment is not a conviction, etc. But because of the open and obvious grift that has been on display at the SPLC for years and years, and because of the…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So it appears that Israel will be throwing a huge sodomy bash at the Dead Sea, near the site of the lately-departed Sodom and Gomorrah, thus setting forth a grim exemplar of insolence history month. And it was not just a privately organized thing either—the government of Israel is behind it, promoting and…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . I have noticed that I have been asked more questions about the 19th Amendment over the last year or so than I had ever been asked in all of my life prior. There is of course some sort of strategy behind all the questions, which is usually aimed at discrediting our larger project, and so some friends have…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So on Monday I was slated to appear on a panel with Piers Morgan and, having done so, I encountered what passes for enlightened discourse these days—you know, in the twilight of our Republic. Piers was the host, and did an okay job trying to be the host, and I shared the panel with Tim Miller of The…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Dear Ehud... Thanks for the email, and for the follow-up phone conversation. I think I have a good grasp of your questions now, and of your dilemma, and hope that I can be of some help. I am thankful that your friend Dawson recommended that you contact me—Dawson’s a great one. For more from Doug,…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Secularism is not a workable common sense solution for getting along in a pluralistic society. Secularism is simply apostasy and godlessness. And the fact that there are numerous Protestant theologians and ministers who are privately orthodox, and who would never themselves burn incense to the Queen of…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So the war in Iran has been going on for a little over a month now, and enough of it has unfolded that I am now being asked on the regular what I think of the big picture....There is an additional factor in all of this in bello discussion. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, worships as part of our church…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . One of the ways to test whether truth is a person’s absolute, as opposed to whether his tribal loyalty is, would be by seeing whether he ever acknowledges that his political opponent, the one who is against his tribe, has ever made a fair point. Or is he wrong about absolutely everything? This is how our…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . AI is a very slick search engine. You need to be careful with this one though. When you use google to search, it gives you a column of links, and the clear implication is that you need to evaluate the claims made on your own. “These are places that talk about your question, and now you are on your own.”…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . If you are anything like me, you may have wondered from time to time about the precise nature of the argument between Job and his three friends. Everyone in the book speaks a lot about the greatness of God, but in all the back-and-forth, what was the nub of the issue exactly?... His three friends thought…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So here is what happened—in case you are not up to speed. My friend Brooks Potteiger was on a podcast with Joshua Haymes and the topic of James Talarico, a death angel from Texas, came up. Now to be fair, he doesn’t look like a death angel. As one meme put it, he looks like a walking embodiment of that…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . We have already had suicides of young people guided to it by chatbots. We already have had a pastor setting up chatbot hot line, with the semblance of his voice, so that parishioners can call and get comfort and counsel from something that is no more than a souped-up answering machine. As things currently…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . To be frank, this entire interview occurred in the middle of a rather intense fever dream, which is probably the only reason it went as well as it did. 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 . So I want you to follow me closely here. A hypothetical Protestant republic, centuries from now, would be . . . chock full of Protestants. That would be the ethos of the whole place. Gaming it all out is how you test the principles of the various systems. What would still be there, and what would be long…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Now with this literalist hermeneutic, it was natural that dispensationalists would interpret the many passages in the Old Testament that prophesied a glorious future for Israel as being about the literal nation of physical Israel (“literal unless absurd”)...And so this is one of the central reasons why…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . The theology of a slut walk, however, by its outrageous embrace of slutty dress, behavior, and thought, absolutely and definitively rejects any level of moral responsibility for anything. Now lest I be misunderstood at this point — which I understand has happened before! — let me hasten to add that I am…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . In the biblical worldview, the seed of the woman is justified and the seed of the serpent is not....When you read about some incident, or see some appalling footage on the tube, and you immediately start thinking in terms of approved and justified groups—congratulations, you’ve just been ejected from…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Let us begin with the death penalty. Because we refuse to execute the dangerous people who really should be executed, we wind up having to protect the general population by locking them up, and this has drifted into the practice of locking everybody up. This creates a huge apparatus of injustice. For more…
IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So it appears that events in the Middle East have, once again, overtooken us. The United States and Israel have launched a joint operation to topple the Iranian regime, and to date have successfully killed the Ayatollah and a number of other regime leaders. From a military standpoint, the early returns…
