Next Christendom

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Writing in Touchstone magazine, Eric Miller says:


And what of the old "Christian" West? Maybe, in God's providence, it was time for it to recede. Like a college, a civilization that fails to incarnate many of the chief ideals it has championed deserves, if not ridicule, at least a stern rebuke and a sober exit.
Maybe instead of fighting so hard to preserve a dying civilization, people of Christian faith should allow the most noble ideals and practices of our Western heritage to call into existence a new people, one that more faithfully adheres to that timeless vision of the good life the West at its best conserved, a people that will begin this time with a markedly improved awareness of the worth of each particular creature of God, and, indeed, of the inestimable worth of the entire creation.


This is another call to thick community, to a new way of living rooted lives, to striking out against our current atomized way of life.

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  1. Mr. McgranorTuesday, 06 November, 2012

    No. Reactionaries of The West must take back The Church. This is insynch with the rejection of the postmodern by 'third world' Anglicans and culture. Since the Counterculture a destructive epoch has risen and consumed. It is not God's will or grace. It is a spirit of man--quite carnal--invoking the manipulation of Satan. Or as a result of it.

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