Out of Egypt:

two posts worthy of your consideration

First, something from the Britannica Blog on the changing meaning of the terms conservative and liberal. I thought this was dead-on. Now my disgust with both major parties seems to make more sense from a historical perspective, as does the surprising areas of agreement (and disagreement) I find with people who describe themselves as "very liberal." The whole polarity of Left and Right seems overly reductionistic - I like the libertarians' representation of political views as a quadrilateral.

Second, Peter Leithart on how identity is formed by culture, and a few practical ways in which the Church can go about obeying the Apostle John's injunction not to "love the world." I wish we could become a more liturgically self-conscious society. But a change of this sort can only be a supernatural work of the Spirit - or the response to a massive social collapse. As it is, our society's privileged modes of discourse are casual, ironic, and selective - consumer culture, ideological individualism.

Hi, Im from Melbourne Australia.
Please check out these profoundly conservative (but not right wing) references on religion, poltics and culture.

1. www.dabase.org/coopcomm.htm
2. www.dabase.org/coop+tol.htm
3. www.coteda.com/fundamentals/index.html
4. www.dabase.org/2armP1.htm#ch2
5. www.dabase.org/noface.htm
6. www.aboutadidam.org/newsletters/toc-february2004.html

Posted by: John at June 4, 2007 10:53 PM