Of all of the figures surveyed in this essay, Henry David Thoreau is perhaps the most radical and is the clearest precursor of 1960s “hippie movement.” Thoreau is probably most famous for his book Walden (1854), which details his experience of living alone in the wilderness on Walden Pond. He uses the narrative of his …
Month: October 2019
Like Melville, Emerson also sought to escape completely from the Christian heritage of New England. But rather than speaking of a return to paganism, Emerson argued that each generation is able to directly apprehend divine truth through its own experience, thus making religious tradition unnecessary. In his famous essay Nature (1836) Emerson writes, “Our age …
Christian nationalists are painfully aware of the popularity of trans-racial adoption in Evangelical circles. As children of different races have different loyalties, obligations, temperaments and abilities, it is most unjust to place children into families of racial aliens. This practice seriously hinders the Christian in his duty to live in distinct, ethnic communities as ordained …
Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick (1851) is known primarily as a whaling adventure, but the book also features a thoroughly anti-Christian and pro-pagan message. In the early chapters of his novel the narrator Ishmael begins a friendship with the Polynesian Queequeg, with whom he is forced to share a room (and a bed) at an inn. …
The current miserable state of America can in many ways be traced to the worldview developed by New England humanists in the mid-19th century. While we have seen that some of these humanists, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, were vaguely aware of the problems caused by industrialization and other social changes, they were not able to …
“Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him. In our sins we lack only the power. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we …
[This post is one of the sections from our recently published Bible study guide available for free download] Despite the numerous miracles that the Israelites witness, their rebellious and sinful attitude continuously asserts itself. They refuse to trust in the power of God and soon grumble against Moses. Rather than rejoicing in their salvation, they …
The Scottish jurist Thomas Craig (1538-1608) writing in defense of the hereditary monarchy of England, argues that the family was, historically, the blueprint for the monarchy. They are similar in that both arose from paternal authority: “Now families at first were kind of small monarchies…In those families, government by many, whether aristocratical or democratical was …
Over the past few weeks there has been a major spat in the Alt-Right, as Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer and Mike Enoch of the Right Stuff have both publicly accused each other of being feds and/or SPLC agents. Enoch supporter Hunter Wallace has also strongly attacked Anglin and his associates on Wallace’s Occidental …