Founder & President, Center for Cultural Leadership, orthodox Protestant, Reformational culturalist, classically liberal conservative, anti-Gnostic, anti-anon
Coulterville, California
Joined May 2008
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Dear friends,
While plans are still being finalized, CCL’s major event this December 5-6 will be a special endeavor, the Silver Anniversary Celebration overlooking San Francisco Bay.
I am sending this “reserve the date” notice earlier than usual because attendance must be capped at 200. There will be a small registration fee, and plenty of hotel rooms available for those who need to spend Friday night, particularly those of you flying in.
Confirmed speakers besides yours truly are David Bahnsen, Joe Boot, Jerry Bowyer, Brian Mattson, and Jeffery Ventrella. We’re waiting for confirmation from one other speaker. There will be, as always, superb food.
The tentative theme is “Christian Culture: Now More Than Ever.”
If you want to lock in your reservation, please contact me privately. I do expect spots to fill up quickly. If you’ve never attended a CCL event before, this would be one to start with.
Finally, we’re encouraging sharper teenagers and young adults to attend: 14 to 18 year-olds and college and seminary students. There will be grants for qualified registrants.
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Hearing people talk about the dereliction of duty for the President to not get Congressional approval of the Iran endeavor (a critique I wholeheartedly agree with) who never ever ever ever said a peep about the dereliction of duty in imposing tariff-taxes without Congressional approval is just mind-boggling. That level of hypocrisy and cowardice would, I would think, cause most people to sit it out. The shamelessness of our age …
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The NXR is not Christian, nor does their “Christian nationalism” have anything to do with Christ. The self-evident nature of this is reaching critical mass.
If you refuse to address bad fruit, then we can only conclude that you think it belongs on your tree.
Plausible deniability left the building a long time ago.
I’m talking to you @JoelWebbon @Brian_Sauve @Eric_Conn.
If I know what you think about James White (fake and gay boomer!) and Allie Beth Stuckey (feminist harpy!) and Samuel Sey (good riddance!), but not about Adolf Hitler, Corey Mahler, or random Twitter anons who want black people to kill their babies, then I do not take you seriously, nor do I find your fruit commensurate with your profession of Christ.
Repent.
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If you see a Tweet like this as something that we should look for from an “aspiring general in the culture war,” you are not thinking like a Christian.
Also please note that as far as I can tell, “slanders” to Dale means “disagrees with.”
By which measure Dale and the NXR guys slander people all the time. So. By the measure with which you measure.
The NXR implosion appears to be reaching critical mass.
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I vehemently disagree, Ben. He specifically focused on Haywood and brought all the receipts. If he had stopped at “guilty by association” then it would be one thing - but he literally cited people’s own work. It is time for us to be bold in opposing this unrighteousness
The Erick Erickson article that is making the rounds points to a phenomenon that is on the right and is worth opposing. However, what he does is sloppy and does more harm than good. The neo-nazi, antisemitic, white nationalists do exist. But they are mostly all in their parents’ basements watching porn and other feral corners of the internet. To the extent that they make any contribution to the broader public it is in the comments section of someone else’s social media feed. Erickson points at a real subculture but then he goes on to name organizations and men that have nothing to do with that world. For instance, I know Nick Solheim and American Moment. He is not a white-nationalist fantasizer, but rather an insanely productive American patriot. He is none of the things that Erickson alleges in that article. Multiple NSA grads have left the college and gone on to work under him at American Moment, grads that I remain proud of for their hard work to serve our nation. Other men in that list, like Scott Yenor and Timon Cline, are men that we have had on the stage at NSA and that I would be proud to have back. Casually throwing the Nazi slur at men like this only further deafens the hearing of the young men that we are trying to reach and makes them more vulnerable to the actually unhelpful voices that are calling to them, not to DC, but back into their parents’ basements.
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If your anger at immigration laws makes you say sinful things like this, then your anger is unrighteous.
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In all seriousness, John, I have consistently found that many of the most rabid anti-foreigners/anti-legal immigration people are routinely beaten by them in academic or professional contexts … but I’m sure their animosity is totally unrelated to that
“A permissive society is one that faces the onslaught of evil with relaxed bowstrings. For the Christian soldier, the price of commitment to the cause of Christ is too high only when he wants less than victory. There are no safe battles — but there are no safe compromises either.”
R. Arthur Mathews
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The only people who claim to be on the right defending it at this point are (a) people who mean they used to be on the right, and now simply identify as big govt post liberals; OR, (b) those who came out of the gate thinking this sounded “based,” have since been informed how it really works, what it really is, and what it really does, but are in too deep to admit this thing is not what they said it is, and not what any conservative believes in
The chief message of the Bible is not what God is doing for you and for me, but, rather, what He is doing in the world and, as He is doing it, what He is doing for you and me. The global advance of the kingdom of Jesus Christ is the message, and if you and I have trusted in Him, we derive all the benefits from it.
When I was still very young, my father taught me a vital truth for Christian leaders that I’ve never forgotten, and he did train me to be a Christian leader (like him).
When contemplating on whose platform you should speak or write, or whom you invite to speaker or write on your platform, never forget: “Your influence counts for something.”
Nobody expects that all our public associations will be in agreement with us on every detail. We might even have some strong disagreements and still maintain a firm public concord.
But if the people whom we platform and whose platforms we’re willing to share are severely compromised theologically and ideologically, are morally compromised, or suffer from deep character defects, we compromise our own Christian testimony by associating with them visibly and publicly.
Lesson: 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈.
DocSandlin retweeted
I find that the biggest divide now in X world over whatever the thing of the week is (AI apocalypse, burrito wars, etc.) is not mainly between different ideologies. It's mainly between people whose job is to actually solve a problem and people whose job is to build a personal brand as an influencer.
I can now predict where somebody is going to come down on these issues more accurately by just asking myself whether that person is high agency and responsible for outcomes or high visibility whose main deliverable is his personal branding. The former face hard realities. The second are the Coddle Coalition. I'll take a liberal with skin in the game over a rightie whose job is click-attraction.
The fact that many radical Leftists routinely slander all Christian conservatives as racists doesn’t mean there aren’t actual racists on the Right.
If the last two or three years have shown anything, they’ve shown there are unmistakable, loud, reprehensible racists on the Right.
Some are even in pulpits.
Salvation by grace is antithetical to works in the acquisition of salvation, which is based entirely on the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.
But salvation by grace is not antithetical to works as a (necessary) consequence of salvation. One of the chief objectives of salvation by grace is good works.
In this sense, to sever good works from grace is to destroy grace.
After several months, I just updated my X app and I was jarred again with the fact that the discourse on Substack is about 1000% better than on X.
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Attempt great things for God. Expect great things from God. Anticipate godless opposition.
The only gospel as bad as the prosperity gospel is the pessimistic gospel. A gospel that doesn’t change cultures isn’t the biblical gospel.
Since religion = observance of a faith, to say “Jesus, not religion” is to say you want a non-practicing Christianity. It’s like wanting a wife with an “open” marriage.
To covenant with Jesus is to be oath-bound. A non-binding faith is self-refuting.
DocSandlin retweeted
Vance's sly insinuation that economic freedom is at odds with human flourishing is such an insane red flag
JD Vance is so frustrating. Here he takes gratuitous shots at Milton Friedman as a bad model for Republican economic thinking.
With Friedman as the guiding light, Ronald Reagan won 49 states and ushered in a decade of unrivaled prosperity. xitter.gq/HAHazony/status/207203…
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Everyone needs to see this and recognize the form of manipulation it is utilizing.
@Brian_Sauve and company got caught with genuine, in the flesh, self-professed, “it’s all over our websites” Nazis at their conference. So how do they respond to the documentation? Deflection, victimhood, and seeking to create victim passion amongst their followers.
First, no one even HAD to hunt Nazis. Hunting takes work! You have to search and look! You all made it easy. You invited them in, gave them a place to set up, had them at your VIP meet and greet, and let them sell their wares to your attendees! No hunting needed when you do all that for us!
But more importantly look at what Sauve does. He draws on given truths that make all of us angry. Muslim rape gangs. Cowardly UK politicians like Keir Starmer (what a vile creature he is!). He taps into our general dislike of, and distrust of, government—all of it, anymore. He brings up how expensive homes are. What there are anti-whites, anti-Christians, etc., in our society. And on and on it goes. And what does ANY of this have to do with Antelope Hills and the absolute MESS Sauve and Conn have made? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. None of the material being promoted by Antelope Hills will do ANYTHING about ANY of the societal ills Sauve lists. Instead, he adds to his “going to hell” condemnation of yesterday another anonymous cavil, “our churches are led by cowards and knaves, heads buried in books.” But this entire rant is nothing but an exercise in misdirection. It is utterly lacking in logical coherence and intellectual content. It’s smoke to attempt to cover a hasty retreat.
