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2021-12-06T21:01:43-05:00

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The Best Books I Read This Year (2021 Edition)

Last updated on: December 6, 2021 at 9:01 pm By John Ehrett

2021 has been a banner year on the reading front, though maybe not exactly the one I’d expected. My little son’s entrance into the world has sent me plumbing the depths of the Dr. Seuss and P.D. Eastman canons, breaking out the classic Berenstain Bears, and seeing how well I can nail the tongue-twisters of Fox in Socks. I can’t wait until he’s old enough for the Chronicles of Narnia, Beverly Cleary, Harry Potter, and so many others. That being... Read more

Culture

2021-11-17T19:41:31-05:00

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John McWhorter’s Anti-Woke Testament

Last updated on: November 17, 2021 at 7:41 pm By John Ehrett

The claim “wokeness is like a religion” has become a standard one. “Wokeness” may be an ambiguous term—though I think most of us can recognize it as the overwhelming post-2015 emphasis, among progressives, on historical injustice and power relations, coupled with a rejection of traditional liberal values like freedom of speech—but many of us have developed a detailed familiarity with certain of its elements. There’s the account of “white privilege” that bears an unmistakable resemblance to talk of original sin.... Read more

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2021-11-11T09:56:16-05:00

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What Kept Me Engaged in Church

Last updated on: November 11, 2021 at 9:56 am By John Ehrett

Over at Cranach, my former literature professor Gene Veith has some thoughtful meditations on youth groups and youth retention. As a (somewhat) more recent product of teenage catechesis, I thought I’d weigh in on the question Veith poses at the end of the post: as a young person, what pulled you into the church, and what drove you away? To be sure, I don’t claim that my experience is necessarily representative of the median youth-group attendee—in reading back over what... Read more

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2021-10-22T09:39:17-05:00

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Finding What We Want in “Midnight Mass”

Last updated on: October 22, 2021 at 9:39 am By John Ehrett

On the recommendation of some folks whose opinions I trust, I recently invested seven hours of my life into Mike Flanagan’s new Netflix horror-drama miniseries Midnight Mass. Flanagan’s directorial approach isn’t always my cup of tea—I have a soft spot for good jump scares and nerve-jangling climaxes, and Flanagan is a slow-burn director—but I must admit, this series ended up worthy of the hype. (Spoilers throughout. There’s really only one big spoiler for this show worth noting, but you’ve been... Read more

Movies

2021-09-27T14:06:20-05:00

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The Three Little Pigs and the Last Judgment

Last updated on: September 27, 2021 at 2:06 pm By John Ehrett

One of the unexpected joys of having a small child is having the opportunity to read aloud all sorts of children’s books, both old and new, to my baby son. And one of the volumes that has gotten a lot of circulation in my house lately is David Gordon’s truck-themed The Three Little Rigs, a brightly colored retelling of the classic story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. In Gordon’s fable, three tiny trucks build home... Read more

Scripture

2021-09-24T10:12:04-05:00

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Bishop Spong’s Radical Gambit

Last updated on: September 24, 2021 at 10:12 am By John Ehrett

This month marked the passing of Episcopal theologian John Shelby Spong, the longtime Bishop of Newark. Despite my strong theological disagreements with him, I’ve always found Spong an interesting figure: Spong displayed none of the vacillation and ambiguity characteristic of those “deconstructing” their faith today. Instead, like a fever dream of J. Gresham Machen, he was quite confident in his radical proposals for internal reform—regularly prophesying that without dramatic doctrinal change, Christianity would disappear in the modern world. Out of... Read more

Scripture

2021-12-06T21:02:00-05:00

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The “Matrix” Sequels Are Better Than You Remember

Last updated on: December 6, 2021 at 9:02 pm By John Ehrett

It’s become a matter of conventional wisdom that the Wachowski siblings’ Matrix film trilogy—which first blew minds in 1999 and careened to an explosive finish in 2003—can best be described as “one great movie followed up by two mediocre sequels.” The Matrix coupled a thoroughly creative “fight the power” storyline with a sleek cyberpunk aesthetic and eye-popping visuals. It was an exhilarating tale of liberation from the “machines” that control our lives, of awakening from unconscious slavery into an ethos... Read more

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2021-08-22T11:44:27-05:00

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Deconstruction is Conversion

Last updated on: August 22, 2021 at 11:44 am By John Ehrett

“Deconstruction” is back in the Christian news orbit. Former megachurch pastor and bestselling author Josh Harris—responsible for penning the rather notorious volume I Kissed Dating Goodbye—recently announced that he was offering a course on deconstruction (that is, a pattern of transition away from standard evangelical theology) for the substantial sum of $275, with a discount for anyone personally impacted by Harris’s own teaching. Under withering criticism from all sides, he yanked the course soon after, but it’s undeniable that there’s... Read more

Culture

2021-07-26T11:33:03-05:00

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What “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” Misses

Last updated on: July 26, 2021 at 11:33 am By John Ehrett

From a certain distance, I’ve always been fascinated by the saga of Seattle’s Mars Hill Church. Helmed by charismatic—and controversial—New Calvinist luminary Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill swiftly rose to prominence as a thriving Reformed church network in one of the nation’s least-churched regions And yet Mars Hill’s implosion was almost as dramatic as its rise: Driscoll left the church following a spate of accusations of domineering and abusive behavior, and decamped to Arizona to found the Trinity Church (which has... Read more

Ecclesiology

2021-07-22T11:21:37-05:00

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Hufflepuffs and Demisexuals

Last updated on: July 22, 2021 at 11:21 am By John Ehrett

At City Journal, essayist Tanner Greer has penned a fascinating piece on the political valence of the “young adult literature” (“YA”) that dominated bestseller lists in the 2000s and early 2010s. As he points out, these books tend to be characterized by a profound cynicism about the adult world and the ineptitude of those managing it. (The grown-ups, in short, tend to be rather like A Series of Unfortunate Events’s hapless Mr. Poe.) This impulse, in turn, has come to... Read more

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