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Fluellen retweeted
Few poems describe a gentleman's character better than Kipling's "If—," and few men read it better than Sir Michael Caine.
Have a great Friday.
Fluellen retweeted
I can’t divulge details at this point, but I have spoken to people close to my friend Sam Sey, and this is not a question of any deliberate law breaking. Anyone saying otherwise is not telling you the truth. And anyone rejoicing over his and his precious wife Annie’s difficulties in this situation is disgusting.
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I’m nearly 64, and I have 3 grown children (all married), and 9 grandchildren.
My sons own their homes, and my daughter and her husband are making good progress towards buying a home in the next few years.
But my practice with regard to their lives is not what I experienced when I became an adult.
The passive, “you’re on your own” approach of my parent’s generation doesn’t make sense today.
Inter generational success requires an inter generational approach. A premodern philosophy needs to be recovered and adapted to the contemporary world.
Fluellen retweeted
Old fashioned idolatry is back.
I’m not talking about that evangelical appropriation of the term to mean getting your loves out of order.
I mean the spiritual technology of antiquity in which images were used to snare spirits and to (seemingly) make them serve human interests through ingratiation.
Our ancestors were fools for trying. They made themselves the slaves of the spirits in the process.
Modernists sneer at this, but their betters in Silicon Valley are all in on this.
Fluellen retweeted
Calvinball was in development long before it got a name
#CalvinandHobbes #BestFriends
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1) The way @joshlofthus reads posts like this is hilarious and a net positive for Christian X.
2) Preaching that men should cultivate martial skills and forsake pacifism is much different than “now we enter wartime Christianity”
Biblical wisdom resists full pendulum swings into the opposite ditch.
Fluellen retweeted
In Greta Gerwig’s Narnia, Jadis uses magic to shatter the Eagle & Child. This is the real Oxford pub where Lewis, Tolkien, and the Inklings actually met and where the Narnia books were shaped. There is no narrative reason for it to appear. Its inclusion isn’t an accident, but a deliberate choice.
In an adaptation already altering the source’s theology and metaphysics, the destruction of the physical site where those ideas were forged functions as a symbolic act: the origin point of the story is targeted and erased by the very antagonist the books exist to defeat. That is the definition of desecration, not homage.
Fluellen retweeted
No, I think most of the criticism about Keller is not because he was a-political, but because he was actually quite political. Keller not only spoke about politics, he spoke about specific politicians. Frequently.
So much so, he was part of a secret meeting of evangelical leaders that were assembled to decide what they were going to do about the problem of evangelical support for Donald Trump.
He also created a political taxonomy of which Christians he thought would be helpful in bringing about Christian renewal in the United States. He specifically placed Trump supporters outside the spectrum of those who would be useful partners. That was a very political assessment.
That is not what someone does just because they want to keep everyone’s focus on the gospel.
Fluellen retweeted
“If you pursue fitness while disrespecting your elders, best of luck on your wellness journey, but don’t expect God to bless it.” Ben Merkle
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The value of multiple generations sharpening each other in the same church can not be overstated.
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I had a respectful and honest conversation with an older man several months ago where I told him “respectfully, I don’t trust you…”
He said I was required to trust him.
I said “no sir, that must be earned”
Getting men to trust you is different. It takes a lot of work. It requires continuously demonstrating competence. The fruit of your competence is often on display for younger men to see.
How does his wife carry herself?
What about his kids?
Has he had a real effect on the world?
Can he lead people to accomplish the next objective?
What’s his max bench? 🤣😇
I think a lot of you men are disrespectfully saying they don’t trust older men.
I think a lot of older men are demanding that we trust them when they haven’t earned it.
How does this get fixed?
Submission to Christ as the perfect man and by daily sewing the fruits of righteousness in our own lives and in those under our authority.
Fluellen retweeted
Young men, I’d encourage you to read this, think long and hard about it, then seek out older man to help you process it — if necessary.
Hold all social media comments until you’ve done so.
That’s how you grow in wisdom and strength of character.
Humility. Humility. Humility.
Regarding some of the recent posting about pastors and their levels of fitness, a few comments. First, if you think that these posts are actually about fitness, you are missing the actual game. This conversation is motivated by something else entirely.
Second, to the extent that young men are being discipled into this mentality, they are being shepherded into spiritual retardation. Proverbs teaches that the glory of young men is their strength and of old men, their grey hair (Prov. 20:29). Over the course of life, you move from strength to wisdom. And like the wine in Jesus’ wineskin parable, no one having tasted the older prefers the younger. By making fitness into a pastor’s goal, you swap out the end and replace it with the beginning. That is what I mean by spiritual retardation. You are putting infancy in the place of maturity. And that is no knock on pursuing fitness. By all means, young men pursue strength. That is where you start. But the end is wisdom. And I prefer a mature pastor over an infant pastor.
Lastly, I’ve seen the argument that this is about stewardship, about healthy practices that will give you a long life. That is a great end to seek. But scripture gives us clear teaching on how to pursue that end. “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you,” (Ex. 20:12). If you want to live long in the land, obey the fifth commandment. If you pursue fitness while disrespecting your elders, best of luck on your wellness journey, but don’t expect God to bless it.
Fluellen retweeted
This is awful and I hate it. Namely because Gerwig took all the fear out of it.
What does that mean?
Originally, Uncle Andrew TRICKED the children into touching the rings.
He was a coward who wouldn’t use the rings himself because he didn’t know exactly what would happen. So he sent a Guinea Pig and Polly through first.
Diggory, DESPITE his fear chose to go and rescue Polly.
The ENTIRE THEME of the book is being TERRIFIED but doing the thing anyway.
• Terrified to use the rings
• Terrified of new worlds
• Terrified your mom is going to die and that Aslan won’t help you save her
Gerwig has erased the heroism from The Magicians Nephew.
Nobody is afraid
Nobody is evil
Nobody can be a hero
Fluellen retweeted
This one is actually an important detail and a bad one to botch. Jadis's sorcery doesn't work in the world of men because the Powers and Principalities have already been dethroned by Christ. The book says Atlantis/antediluvian world was full of people like her.
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Hahahaha. Sure.
Greta Gerwig on preparing to write Narnia: The Magician's Nephew:
"I read or re-read everything Lewis wrote. Then I tried to read everything he read."
She also retraced C.S. Lewis's life and steps in Belfast, Cambridge, and Oxford, hoping to better understand the author so that "my instincts would align with his”.
Full report: narniaweb.com/2026/10/greta-…
