Mornin’, friends and fans. It’s been a scary long time of silence at Postmodern Conservative. But as you can tell . . . we’ve relaunched. Bigger. Better. Stronger. Not necessarily faster in any way . . . because surely you’ll be spending a lot more time hanging . . . . Continue Reading »
The legendary Dr. Pat Deneen’s contribution to Culture11 today is about how the honorable McCain should encourage ordinary Americans to take personal responsibility for the financial crisis. They should start living more frugally, with genuine self-restraint, and more ecologically in . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter probably has the right idea—it’s worth some effort kicking off the new blog by trying to hash out what postmodern conservatism means. I’ve been re-reading a lot of Christopher Lasch lately, especially the work following The Cutlure of Narcissism (1979) . Lasch argued for a . . . . Continue Reading »
Genuine diversity depends, of course, on lives formed by different understandings of the self or soul. Our tradition of diversity has been largely of diverse religious communities. Now we talk so much about diversity because we’re anxiously aware that we’re losing it. Diversity has . . . . Continue Reading »
I am preaching through Luke at Trinity Reformed Church, and I will be posting sermon notes at this site. Here are the notes from last week’s sermon: Things Fulfilled Among Us, Luke 1:1-56 INTRODUCTION Luke’s gospel is the first part of a two-volume work. Luke wrote his gospel to tell of . . . . Continue Reading »
At the beginning of the worship service at Trinity Reformed Church, where I’m serving as organizing pastor, I give an exhortation. Here is the exhortation for this week: This week, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA) confirmed Gene Robinson, an . . . . Continue Reading »
Bruce Ellis Benson’s Graven Ideologies , a study of Nietzsche, Derrida, and Marion, confirms something I’ve suspected from my sketchy reading of Derrida. Benson says that Derrida emphasizes that all thought is set in a structure of “not yet but still to come.” This is . . . . Continue Reading »