It's So Soft, And Squishy.

In this episode, we continue to read Rod Dreher's book on being a Christian dissident. We discuss soft totalitarianism and its effects on the church and culture. What happens when everyone has a grievance and nobody can forgive?

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

The Other Guys (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386588/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31

Noble Lie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie

Monsters of Rock https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-heavy-metal-thunder-rumbled-in-moscow/87048/

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Riley and Gillespie spin off into a pastoral debrief on the effects of soft totalitarianism on the Church and Christians within their vocation.

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD – ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

https://orthochristian.com/47643.html

Twilight of Idols - Nietzsche https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52263/52263-h/52263-h.htm

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Christians Rush in Where Fools Fear to Tread.

In this episode, we read Rod Dreher's "Christian Dissidents." What is totalitarianism? What are the consequences of soft totalitarianism? What is the Christian response to tyranny?

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fools_rush_in_where_angels_fear_to_tread

Generational warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_warfare

Shadow Gate (documentary) https://www.millennialmillie.com/post/shadow-gate

Church of the Cosmic Skull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Cosmic_Skull

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Christians Get Ready, There's a'Change That's Coming.

In this episode, we read Rod Dreher's book, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. We discuss what happens when society and the churches turn away from God's Word and the Church, and defect, choosing instead to worship and obey people and things that are not Christ.

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD – ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

https://orthochristian.com/47643.html

Twilight of Idols - Nietzsche https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52263/52263-h/52263-h.htm

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In this episode, we discuss pastoral topics, congregational life, the challenges Christians face today, and how things have changed for clergy and the churches since 2020.

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Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect https://onthe.rocks/spiritualizing-cowardice/

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised

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Enemy at The Gates.

In this episode, we read and discuss David Mark Whitford's book, "Tyranny and Resistance." What are Christians to do when state and church unite to enforce laws that are in opposition to God's Word and Christian freedom?

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Tyranny and Resistance: The Magdeburg Confession and the Lutheran Tradition by David Mark Whitford https://amzn.to/3xHBbg0

Big Rock Candy Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain

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Breaking Your Rules — In this episode, we continue our reading and conversation about Dr. Steven Paulson's breakdown of Martin Luther's explanation of the two kingdoms. Marriage, children, preaching, serving our neighbor, and standing up to evil.

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Luther for Armchair Theologians https://amzn.to/3zVq44z

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I've Got a Gun aka The Whole Armor of God. In this episode, we read and discuss Dr. Steven Paulson's breakdown of Martin Luther's explanation of the two kingdoms doctrine. Faith, family, and false idols form the backbone of our talk.

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Luther for Armchair Theologians https://amzn.to/3zVq44z

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In this episode, we read and discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's apology for religion's relevance to politics in Democracy in America. What happens when the two kingdoms are divided or collapsed into each other?

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Democracy in America, p.330 (PDF) http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/LojkoMiklos/Alexis-de-Tocqueville-Democracy-in-America.pdf

Tocqueville's Faith https://lawandreligionforum.org/2013/08/01/tocquevilles-faith-2/

Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville

Tocqueville on Christianity and American Democracy https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/report/tocqueville-christianity-and-american-democracy

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Faith in What? Faith in Who?

In this episode, we read Robert J. Delahunty's article about Alex de Tocqueville's faith. Tocqueville is a remarkable study in Enlightenment faith because he straddles the line between Christianity and the Enlightenment: Law and religion, belief and despair that concerns the relationships between Church and State in the United States and France.

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Tocqueville's Faith https://lawandreligionforum.org/2013/08/01/tocquevilles-faith-2/

Democracy in America http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/LojkoMiklos/Alexis-de-Tocqueville-Democracy-in-America.pdf

Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville

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