Taking Thoughts Captive

culture

If ever one wished to render the church’s message obsolete and her existence pointless, adopting queerness would seem a most excellent way to do it. Queer theory is the perfect tool for demolishing any “oppressive” dogma or claim to transcendent truth. But if the church has no truth to proclaim, why does she exist? Or, more pointedly, why should anyone bother with her?

— Carl R. Trueman, “Lessons from the Decline of Protestant Churches”

#quotes #culture #theology

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

— Ray Bradbury

#quotes #reading #culture

index

Here is a running list of all the tags used at “Taking Thoughts Captive.” Clicking on any of them will take you to a page with all the posts having that particular tag, just like an index.

#culture #devotional #Evangelicalism #festivals #hymnody #Lent #Lewis #Luther #Lutheran #life #links #miscellanies #OConnor #politics #prayers #psalms #quotes #reading #Reformed #sacraments #TFCC #theology