Dear Friends,
It is good to be back in Big Sky Country after my little jaunt to The People’s Republic of California. I had a lovely time at the TruthXChange Annual Symposium, and the speaker lineup truly delivered! My daughter made me take her copy of Thaddeus Williams’s Don’t Follow Your Heart (her favorite book) to get it signed, and even though he was medicated and woozy from a serious injury he’d suffered the night before, he delivered.
He also delivered during his presentation, a lecture based on his brand new book, Revering God: How to Marvel at Your Maker. Oof, that is truly great material and you should go preorder it pronto! Thaddeus and I figured out that we hadn't actually seen each other in around ten years, so it was a great blessing to reconnect.
The main event for me was spending time with three of the best friends a fellow can have: Andrew Sandlin, Jeff Ventrella, and David Bahnsen.
If you don’t know or don’t follow those exceptional men, you should subscribe to Andrew’s Substack, Jeff’s weekly “Dicta,” and David’s “Dividend Cafe”—that last one only if you’re interested in the very best commentary on economics and capital markets available. Or you can just subscribe to this YouTube channel and watch all of David’s various cable TV appearances.
Fall is just beginning to “fall” around here and it is by far my favorite time of the year. School is up and running, the air is crisp and cool in the mornings, and the angle of sun casts the perfect “Autumn” shade of light. It’s the kind of weather that makes me want to go fishing, and I think I’ll try to do that soon. But for now, let’s cover a few odds and ends, shall we?
Tucker Carlsen may not be on cable TV anymore, but he is still at it, producing an independent show on “X.” He’s a provocateur, of course, last in the news for traveling to Moscow and shilling for the supposed glories of Vladimir Putin’s train stations and grocery stores. The new controversy is that he hosted a guest whom he called an “historian.” This “historian” went on for ninety or so minutes explaining how we’ve got our whole understanding of World War II wrong. Churchill was the villain, you see! And the Holocaust was just a mere accident and the product of logistical incompetence! Those Germans, whom, as we all know, are famously renowned for laziness and lack of attention to detail, were just unprepared for all of the refugees and prisoners of war! Oopsies. I will let real historians have at it with this pure (lightly-disguised antisemitic) trash. Historian? How about wild-eyed late-night psycho-guest for Coast To Coast AM? Anyhow, if you weren’t convinced before, I shall exhort you again: never, ever, ever listen to another word that comes out of Tucker Carlsen’s mouth.
I was pleased to receive the latest issue of Modern Reformation in the mail. It features a lengthy essay they invited me to publish, and they did a beautiful job with the typesetting and layout. They even included illustrations. So fancy!
If you don’t want to go order a hardcopy, I believe they will be “unlocking” the essays online over the next few weeks. I’ll try to remember to let you know when mine goes live. It was an honor to be invited to Modern Reformation’s pages. If you’re not aware, they are quite militant in their commitment to “Two Kingdoms” theology, and I am a dyed-in-the-wool Kuyperian Neo-Calvinist who has been a sharp critic of that point of view. An all-too-rare instance of real ecumenicity and catholicity! I suppose my topic invites it: when it comes to the encroachment of all-encompassing Statism, we all are, or ought to be, on the same team.
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