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On Reading Badly

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 10, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, History, Social Justice

I happened to be wandering around twitter a few days ago—I’ve been trying to collect evidence of “virtue signaling,” which is all the rage as you all know—and came across something that bothered me lots more than that. I don’t think that the author of the tweet was...

At Such A Time As This

by Anne Kennedy | Jul 15, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Religious Freedom, Social Justice, The Gospel

All my open tabs this morning are about Bari Weiss, Nick Canon, and Cancel Culture. I’ve tried to avoid clicking on anything in the NYT (I’m almost out of my free articles) as a matter of principle, but I keep getting sucked in anyway. This line from Ross Douthat...

Insanity Triumphant

by David Fischler | Jul 10, 2020 | Social Justice, U.S. Politics

One of the most important novels of the 20th century is George Orwell’s social justice warrior handbook warning against totalitarianism entitled 1984. In it, he gives us this exchange between O’Brien, the Inner Party torturer, and Winston Smith, the...

If Not “Cultural Marxism”, Then What?

by David Ould | Jul 8, 2020 | History, Social Justice, U.S. Politics

The label “Cultural Marxism” has been used for a while now by some people to describe a particular wave of activism that we’re increasingly seeing across our western liberal democracies. What’s happened more recently is a push back against the label. Critics suggest...

Why I Did Not Sign the Letter (Part 1)

by Matt Kennedy | Jul 1, 2020 | Anglicans, Social Justice, Woke Church

The Anglican Compass recently published an article entitled “Anti-Racism: A Letter to Fellow ACNA Clergy” (hereafter referred to as “the Letter”). It is an open letter and the authors hope that ACNA clergy will read it and add their signatures in support. I was...

#7: Monumental Change: The Broken Arc of History

by Matt Kennedy | Jun 26, 2020 | History, Jesus, Podcast, Social Justice, The Gospel

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the removal of statues and the renaming of buildings, talk about the complicated nature of history, and rejoice in the Good News of the Gospel for people with sins in their past. Subscribe to the...