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Trump's baby bonus won't work — but we already know the real solution | Blaze Media
People are finally noticing that there aren’t as many children as there used to be. Because demography is destiny when it comes to the future — as opposed to, say, climate science or fortune cookies — even people who don’t like children are alarmed. In case you’ve not heard, times have changed. We’ve gone from worrying about a population bomb to fretting about a population bust. The fertility rate is tanking. We know what happened — we just don't want to admit it: Our society lost faith in God.
Playing Leapfrog with Aaron Renn | C.R. Wiley
In C. S. Lewis’s essay, The Inner Ring, he describes a circle of people who possess a powerful mystique that outsiders both resent and envy. It’s the result of some well-placed tinsel. We all know that, but we all wish we were on the inside anyway. “Oh, if I could only get in, then I’d have what they’ve got!” Sometimes, this is rationalized in Christian circles with fantasies of making a difference.
Dividing husbands and wives
Something odd happened the other day. Someone came to our front door. The door was open, but the screen door was shut, and my wife was nearby speaking with our granddaughters and our son and his wife. I was sitting nearby, far enough away to be out of sight but near enough to hear the following: “Is Marla home?” I thought he might be a delivery man with a package for her.
Post-mortem for a Christian college
Another Christian college has closed. This one was my alma mater—Eastern Nazarene College. Whether or not it was still Christian at the end is debatable, but when I was a student there 40 years ago and when I taught there on an adjunct basis about 20 years ago, it certainly was. I owe that school a great deal. Even so, I received the news of its closure with more sadness than I had expected to feel.
How to Win the World, Part 4: Recover Biblical Households with C.R. Wiley | REBEL - Podcast for Cultural Engagement
/ Topic Family, Marriage/Family This summer the Rebels are learning “How to Win the World” through various guests discussing practical Christian theology and how it can apply to the immediate world around us. Continue to join us as we learn how to put our hand to the plough in real, tangible ways. In this fourth episode, P Nate and Elder P are joined by Pastor/ Author C.R. Wiley of the Theology Pugcast to discuss how Christians can reclaim productive, anti-fragile, biblical households.
The repellant piety of “brokenness”
“If you want to reach men, appeal to their sense of duty, not their brokenness.” I did not anticipate the response I would get when I posted that on social media, but it must have struck a nerve. What prompted it is my distaste for “brokenness,” a term now in vogue that subtly shifts emphasis from personal responsibility to victimhood when it comes to the doctrine of sin.
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Where are the grandchildren?
It’s probably the birth of three granddaughters in the last 10 months that helped me notice. And what I noticed is there appears to be fewer grandparents than there used to be. I don’t have an authoritative study to cite, but I’m coming across a lot of people my age who tell me they have no grandchildren, and a few who say that they have only one, and they don’t expect any more. These are literate, educated people.
The seduction of elitism
C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength is many things. It is dystopian fiction in the same league as 1984 and Brave New World (although that’s questionable since it has a happy ending). It’s also a peek at the quite literally invisible spiritual forces working in the modern world. But, in a most relevant sense, it’s an analysis of seduction.
What’s really going on at Harvard?
When it comes to real estate, we’ve all heard the mantra: location, location, location. I’ve lived through at least four seller’s markets in real estate, and I’ve seen the mind-numbing power of a seller’s market on the intellects of otherwise prudent people. When I was a pastor on Cape Cod in the early 2000s an elderly widow in my church lived in a ramshackle house, falling down all around her. But it was on a prime piece of land, on the water in fact, with ready access to the sea.
Begotten, not made
Imagine a future Wall Street Journal headline on Oct. 28, 2079: “The MetaSphereÔ is abuzz over a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of nearly 25,000 bioengineered people for “wrongful birth.” The article goes on to say: “Many born without either a biological father, or mother, the suit maintains that the bioengineered suffer irreparable psychological damage and insurmountable social alienation from traditional patterns of family life.
That’s Unprofessional | C.R. Wiley
My wife’s great-uncle was none other than the distinguished, Dr. Ralph Earle, Jr., Chairman of the Translating Committee for the New International Version of the Bible, President of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1962 (the year I was born), and one of the luminaries listed in Oxford’s Who’s Who Among Intellectuals in the World. I met him when we’d gone to his stately home in Kansas City for a family gathering.
Trickle down morality
The Wall Street Journal in August published an article, “Houses of Worship Shouldn’t Mirror the Class Divide,” by Ryan Burge, a Baptist pastor and associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. He begins by noting two trends. First, more people than ever in the United States have no religious affiliation. We’re informed that only 5 percent of Americans in 1972 said so, but by 2021, that percentage had sky-rocketed to 30 percent.
Bitcoin and the Value of Trust | C.R. Wiley
Welcome to Casablanca This talk was delivered on May 16, 2023, at the Thank God for Bitcoin conference in Miami, Florida. Bitcoin is somewhat controversial, and while I own some, I’m neither an authority on it, nor an evangelist for it. I was invited to address the conference because I have published books and articles on the household economy, real property, and risk. I gladly accepted the offer to speak because it afforded me an occasion to reflect on the nature of money and political resistance.
The ground erodes under feminists’ feet
The tribulations of J. K. Rowling on Twitter show us how quickly fortunes can change for the worse in today’s woke climate. At least in antiquity, the fall of the great could be blamed on fortune. Today we can only blame ourselves for not getting with the inevitable progress of history. In much of the ancient world, things just happened. Today if you’re not on the right side of history, you’re stupid or immoral—probably both.
The Safety of a Father’s Laughter
One of the best things that a father can do for his wife and children is laugh at what God laughs at. Now, some things are not laughing matters; for instance, God’s promises should never be laughed at. He’s someone you should laugh with, but never at. Consider Abraham and Sarah — first they laughed at what God said to them, but in the end, they came to see that the joke was on them. And it was a good joke too, good in every way. He promised them a son in their old age.
Sisyphus Just Keeps Rolling Along
On Scott Yenor’s The Recovery of Family Life Nearly everyone says that progress is a good thing. But one of its ironies is that it makes revolutions possible. A revolution is a turning, or perhaps better, an overturning. But for a turning to be progress, it has to get you closer to your goal. Without that, things just revolve in place: it’s the same old thing, over and over again. Things seem to change, but not really.
Send in the Vaccine Troops
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Novel Coronavirus, Ancient Economics
C.R. Wiley The American Mind March 23, 2020 A lot of unhappy people are stuck at home right now because of the Coronavirus. And who can blame them? There’s little to do besides plug into some electronic device—either to telecommute, or to seek diversion. In a way there’s nothing new here.
Novel Coronavirus, Ancient Economics
A lot of unhappy people are stuck at home right now because of the Coronavirus. And who can blame them? There’s little to do besides plug into some electronic device—either to telecommute, or to seek diversion. In a way there’s nothing new here. Blaise Pascal famously noted: “All of humanity’s problems stem from a man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” In fact, there’s a good chance that you’re reading this while sitting in your pajamas alone at home while wishing you were someplace else.
On Getting & Keeping Masculine Men in Church
Written by C.R. Wiley | Saturday, January 5, 2019 This may seem counter-intuitive, but you shouldn’t make reaching men the focus of your church. The focus should be the truth of the gospel and living in obedience to it. I’ve seen some guys who unintentionally make a caricature of masculinity by focusing on superficial markers of it.
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