Douglas Wilson
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Minister of Christ Church (@christ_kirk) in Moscow, Idaho
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Mom! Allie Beth’s Bossing Me! So here we all are, in the feminist longhouse, wondering if there is a good way to navigate our way out of this leper colony. The longhouse rules dictate what the docile men are supposed to do, which they willingly do as their civic duty, abjuring their privilege as they go. Of course they do. But the rules are so entrenched that they also affect and drive the behavior of many of those who fancy themselves restive rebels against the matriarchy. But the feminists have done a more thorough job smashing the patriarchy than the click bait bros have done in smashing the longhouse. For example, Allie Beth Stuckey did a thing, and gave a big sister talk to the men. Like most big sisters, she did not anticipate how it would come across, and found that her pungent observations were, um, underappreciated. She even had that big sister tone, which didn’t help. There were howls of protest, many of them from men who found that they would rather talk about Allie Beth getting out of her lane than to even think about the men who have been enervated by porn. That would be to acknowledge that big sister might have had something of a point, and in many of the cases she might have had a point about their own browser histories. But rather than think about their own browser histories, they concluded it would be much more edifying to yell about Allie Beth’s conservative variant of feminism. And so yell they did.
Douglas Wilson161,590 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
Ethno-nationalism is not a subset of Christian nationalism. But can a genuine Christian embrace the tenets of ethno-nationalism? Sure, but only in the way that a Christian can commit adultery with his neighbor’s wife. That can happen too. So what are we doing here in Moscow? We are keeping the Christian in Christian nationalism.
Douglas Wilson138,737 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
Dear Mr. President, Greetings in the Lord. Thank you for your service to our country. As I have noted the various comments you have made about Heaven, I have felt burdened to write to you. I decided on an open letter and there are two reasons I can give for this. In the first place, you have been very open about your questions. This has been a matter of public discussion, and so I don’t feel it is out of place to address them in this way. Second, you are our president, and in this role you are in many ways our representative. I believe there are many Americans who have exactly the same questions that you do. As I write to you, I am writing also to them. And to these reasons, I might also tag on a third, which is that approaching the task this way stands a better chance of actually getting to you, which is actually the central point. I write because I am a minister of the kingdom of Heaven, and when I hear someone talking about Heaven as you have been doing, the only thing that comes to my mind is how I might possibly set out the message of Christ to you in a way that fits. How might I faithfully address the questions that you have been raising about this issue? We should want to do more than just insert the buckle into the seat belt . . . we also need to hear the click.
Douglas Wilson135,100 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
I do have an idea, followed by a question. Millions of evangelicals still have their children in the government school system. Get them out now. Having Christian children in the government school system is what theologians of another era would have called sinnity-sin-sin. Not a little smidge of sinnity either. Not really a debatable matter. Stop it. Crash the system. If there ever were to be a true reformation among us, Christians leaving the public school system would form a refugee column that would make the Mississippi River look like a solitary tear running down Horace Mann’s cheek. My question is a simple one, but I will divide it into two questions in just a moment. Here is the first phase of the question: In order for all Christians to get their kids out of the maw of this government school system, what would it take precisely? How many outrages would have to be slathered over the tops of all of our heads before we said something like, “Friend, enough”? How outrageous would such outrages have to get before somebody noticed? How much before everybody noticed? How far down this wormhole do we have to go? Some time, away in the future, the last holdout, some Baptist deacon in Tennessee, will finally acknowledge that when the public school system refused to allow his (politely worded) request for his daughter to opt out of the lab for the pole dancing class, with the football team as the practice audience, they really had “gone too far.” The football team was there because they were all in mandatory sensitivity training, which meant that they had to watch the girls without any catcalling, which they did grumble about a little bit.
Douglas Wilson102,575 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
During our session, someone from the audience asked us if it was “antisemitic” to oppose foreign aid to Israel. Both Steve Deace and I said “no, it was not.” That is a policy issue. Both of us wanted to see our foreign aid to all other countries to go down to zero, and that would include Israel. Within the conservative movement, it should be possible to come to a conference held by Turning Point USA, and to hear some speakers argue for zeroing out all foreign aid, and other speakers advocate for a judicious use of strategic foreign aid, with America’s best interests being the reason for the aid. Great. Have that debate. Make sure both sides are represented. Talk about policy. Is Israel our greatest ally? Let us debate the question! Let us knock ourselves out. Nobody is an antisemite for thinking that some other country is our greatest ally. But there is another question, another kind of question, that does not belong at a conference like this at all. That is the question of whether or not the organizers of the conference you are going to were complicit in the grotesque murder of their founder and friend. That is an allegation that is gobsmackingly off-the-leash, with the holder of the leash being off her meds. If someone thinks that is a reasonable question, and he gets an invitation to speak at TPUSA (for some reason), and he accepts that invitation, it really means that he doesn’t believe it is a reasonable question at all, and is just being a hypocritical opportunist. Going to the conference to chum around with the murderers? Here is where the Great Smudge is happening. This is where the disingenuous juke move is being performed. A grotesque libel and slander is hurled at the leadership of TPUSA, with preparations being made to be insulted and affronted if they decided not to invite you next time. If they don’t invite you next time, it will be plain indication that they “don’t want to face the music.” They are trying to censor “questions”! No, it would actually be a plain indication that free speech has performed one of its central functions, which is to identify who the morons are. And in this case, who the impudent morons are. Candace Owens is not just “asking questions.” She is making very serious allegations. She is an accuser. She is an accuser of persons. She is the perverse spirit that the Lord has poured into the bowl. She is the great bringer of what might be called inviso-receipts. She has a vast army of people following her who are demanding the dopamine rush they get whenever she feeds them the next crazy line. That is why the moratorium that Erika and Candace agreed on couldn’t hold—it was like arranging a cease-fire with Hamas. Candace has a ravenous bear for an audience, and she has to feed it tainted meat, with that meat getting increasingly tainted. This is why we are moving into territory formerly occupied by those people who needed to read the tabloid headlines about Madonna and Sasquatch having a love child. It is disingenuous, in extremis, to pretend that these questions are anything alike.
Douglas Wilson69,773 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
Charlie Kirk was courageous, and he was a true man. His was a very masculine courage. In his book Orthodoxy, Chesterton summarized this principle of courage nicely: “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” Charlie took the initiative. He went into the arena. He did not build an impressively large organization so that he might sit through endless board meetings, doodling on a yellow legal pad. As I said, he went into the arena. He was not the first Christian to surrender his life in that arena, and he most certainly won’t be the last. And this man, the best of us, was a product of broad evangelicalism. Think about that for a minute. When the devil went after us, he went after the dangerous one—and the dangerous one came from quite an unexpected place. And so I would urge all the brothers who do their theology the way Mary Poppins cleans up nurseries—spit spot—to remember that Charlie had more active Kuyperianism in his little finger than the scores of edge-lords who love typing instead of doing. We can tell from how all this went down who was the first of us to get to the top of the scaling ladders. His name was Charlie. A final note. While not knowing how time and eternity intersect, I am quite sure that Charlie is proud of his wife Erika. We certainly are.
Douglas Wilson78,841 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
I can begin with some very modest praise for the Baptists. They at least know that the sacraments go together. To be baptized is to admitted to the Table. Having placed this feather in their cap, somewhat magnanimously, let me take it out again. Those Presbyterians who baptize infants, but who will not commune them, are those who bring their children into the covenant household, but will not feed them. The kids can sit on the sofa in the living room during dinner and listen to the happy clinking of the silverware coming from the dining room. But Reformed Baptists know that admission to the house is tantamount to admission to the Table—and so they remove all the inconsistency by making all their kids sleep in the yard. But Reformed credo-communionists and Reformed Baptists alike believe that the Christian faith is like a ride at Disneyland, where you have to be a certain height to participate. They have fallen into the same trap that the Lord’s first disciples fell into—that of believing that the Lord Jesus was far too important and far too busy to deal with the likes of children. And this is one of the places in the gospels where we are told that Jesus got angry (“much displeased,” aganakteo—angry).
Douglas Wilson60,656 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
There is no way that ethnic tensions could be as pronounced as they currently are without a lot of deep sin going into the generation of those tensions. But ethnic tensions are not the result of a white person waking up one day and thinking he needs to start despising people who are darker than he is. Neither is it the result of black people suddenly lurching into a policy of violence and mayhem. There are two errors to avoid when it comes to the kind of repentance that is needed in an hour like ours. One is to approach the whole thing in a simplistic spirit, calling for people to repent of all their behavior, but only starting at the precise moment the rioting started. But repentance is also needed for all the decisions and policies that led to the conditions that made the rioting seem like a reasonable way out. It isn’t, but why do people come to believe that? The second mistake is that of starting at the wrong end—this happens when we start by confessing the sins of the other guy. That gets us nowhere, and just perpetuates the conflict. You can confess other people’s sins all day long and your joy will not come back.
Douglas Wilson73,835 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
On a submarine, if the collision alarm sounds, you immediately shut the nearest watertight door, and cinch it tight. There is a line that we have that is the equivalent of that collision alarm. If people we used to be associated with cross that line, then we will simply do our duty—we will shut the hatch and ignore the yelling. That’s not cancel culture, and not a struggle session. That is how you keep the whole submarine from going down.
Douglas Wilson121,119 просмотров • 1 год назад
Have you killed any of your babies? Come to Christ. Have you cut off your breasts? Come to Christ. Have you built a medical practice cutting off breasts? Come to Christ. Have you run numerous anon accounts attacking faithful servants of God? Come to Christ. Have you written op-ed pieces urging Christians to surrender the central point of the culture war? Come to Christ. Are you a loser? Come to Christ. You won’t be the first, and you certainly won’t be the last.
Douglas Wilson102,231 просмотров • 1 год назад
Here in Moscow we have been arguing, and for decades, that a wife’s submission is to be genuine and thorough and honest and wholehearted, but not absolute. No human authority is absolute. We are fallen, we are sinners. There must be checks and balances with regard to all governments. Our submission to civic leaders is to be genuine (Rom. 13:1-7) . . . but not absolute. Our submission to the leaders of the church should be genuine (Heb. 13:7, 17) . . . but not absolute. Our submission to the head of the home is to be genuine (Eph. 5: 22-23) . . . but not absolute.
Douglas Wilson84,210 просмотров • 1 год назад
I would encourage everyone to put yourself back precisely one year ago. Remember where your head was last October. The election was uncertain. We were facing the prospect of seeing our beloved country circle the drain for the last time. Whatever direction you might look, you could only see nonsense and perversion stretching out over the horizon. Yeah, there were red pills around, but not a few black pills. And depending on the day, and how things were going, quite a few dark gray pills. Now go stand in that “last-October head space,” and try to imagine the Charlie Kirk memorial service. Charlie was a hard-working and very talented man, but he worked hard at what? He was a campus evangelist and a podcaster. He had thrown himself into the mission of talking about doctrine and comprehensive worldview with nineteen-year-olds. Doing that, he became such a cultural force that he was shot and killed by the darkness we are up against. And at the memorial service for this campus evangelist, you had the president’s cabinet sitting in the front row, the secretary of state declaring the gospel, the vice-president of the United States walking us through the Nicene Creed, numerous faithful Christians pointing the way to Jesus Christ, the president himself present and speaking, a beautiful widow speaking her beautiful words, and with thousands upon thousands in the stadium, and a hundred million people watching around the globe. Now remember last October, and then hold this event up right next to it. Reflect on how much mercy God is pouring out. That was the October when Kamala Harris had a teleprompter that glitched, and she kept saying “32 days, 32 days” like they were a koan and she was an inept Buddhist initiate seeking enlightenment. And you switched your television off, and muttered to yourself that millions of people were going to vote for that, and she was a commie to boot. I used the phrase how much mercy a moment ago. But we have to realize that our sinful apostasy has been great, and we still need a lot more mercy than that. And so now I want you to prayerfully imagine next October. Reformation and revival should really be at the top of your prayer list now.
Douglas Wilson44,286 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
We have entered an era where furries are assassins or aspiring assassins, and bombs are planted by men with a My-Little-Pony fetish. A Supreme Court justice doesn’t know what a woman is, and a bunch of young girls don’t either. Seventy years ago a girl with too much time on her hands got really good at hula hooping. Today she has her breasts cut off. Tens of thousands die of drug overdoses annually. Kids are graduated from high school not knowing how to read their own diplomas. They don’t know who they are, and they don’t know why they exist. Periodically one of these kids, hopped up on drugs prescribed by the school nurse, shoots up the school. These are drugs that are sourced from the respectable cartels, and not the icky cartels. And some of our people finally start reacting to this nonsense, but in the meantime they were so poorly educated that they start treating Candace like a sage and a logician. We are in a bad way. And like a stubborn, irascible, and unteachable husband behind the wheel, refusing to ask for directions, our secular elites doggedly drive on through the dense fog, refusing to admit the glaring and obvious fact that they are just plain lost. A people who are just plain lost should admit it, and they should cry out to the Lord. They should turn to Jesus Christ, repenting of their many and grievous sins. They should make a special point of ignoring those Christian thought leaders who warn them against such repentance, and who will call them a bunch of ugly loser names if they do repent. They should look straight at the fact that Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life, and that He went to cross in order to suffer under the penalty that was due to us for our sins. He died under the wrath of God so that we might be spared from the final wrath. After three days in the tomb, in accordance with the Scriptures, He rose again from the dead. He ascended into Heaven, where He was given universal authority over all nations, ours included. This is the Lord we must cry out to—the one who is king of America.
Douglas Wilson32,028 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
I trust you all remember the MLK50 conference? That event was sponsored by the ERLC and by TGC. Still with me? Remember that one? And to date, as far as I know, these organizations have not apologized for any of that business. So the thought experiment is this. What if we were to survey all the speakers at that conference in order to ask them what they would think of a huge evangelical conference, held on the 50th anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death, commemorating his life and contribution to our cultural life? I believe that one word would show up an awful lot in their responses. That word would be idolatry. In short, they would object strongly to people on the right doing anything like what they are doing on the left. And make no mistake. They are on the left, some of them wittingly and a number of others unwittingly.
Douglas Wilson37,789 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
When was the last time you heard any distinctively feminine temptations and sins called out? So then, as a public service, allow me to mention that older women should be careful not to drink too much wine (Tit. 2:3), that they should guard themselves against the flattery of therapeutic counselors (1 Tim. 2:14), and they should make sure not to run down their husbands (Eph. 5:33). That should keep everybody busy for a bit.
Douglas Wilson71,200 просмотров • 1 год назад
If I had to summarize two of the loci that have attracted the most pronounced animus of the young bucks who have roared into intramural conservative disputes over the last five years, those two issues would be “Christian Zionist support for Israel,” just referred to above, and “the boomers.” A major part of the bulwarkiness of the white evangelicals has to do with the boomer vibe that pervades the entire evangelical world. And that is because the white boomer believers are themselves the ones who tithe. White evangelicals are generally really conservative, across all age groups, and good for them. But the ones who are generally conservative and have significant resources to donate to the cause would be the boomers. This is not to cast shade on anybody, but as a practical reality you generally have more money forty years after graduation than you did four years after graduation. And so our strategic geniuses of the right also decided that this was a good time to start antagonizing the donor class of the lone bulwark. What could go wrong? Let’s build up a cohort of young activists who distinguish themselves by calling their only possible donor class a bunch of names. “That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it plays out for him.” Coalitions are one thing, and foundations are another. When you are manning the ramparts, you will have disparate groups all around the top of the wall. You and your folks have down to the Fish Gate, and somebody else is manning the section that goes out as far as the Water Gate. It is usually considered bad form to start shooting at allies and cobelligerents up and down the wall, not to mention being a tad counterproductive. So what are we to make of those who believe that white evangelicals are the lone bulwark against moral insanity, which is precisely the case, but who then turn their energies to blowing up that bulwark? The most charitable description of them is that they are strategically challenged.
Douglas Wilson29,326 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
Why Candace Should Stop Connecting Dots (You can read the full blog with the link below)
Douglas Wilson27,952 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад