Swinging off the gallows and into the Glory

Oh my gosh, TheOoze has an amazing article on called "Orthodox Twenty-Somethings" (a review of "The New Faithful" and "The Younger Evangelicals", a great book I've recommended. Read this article if you want to understand why Julie's at a traditional Catholic Church and why I'm plain dressing. This is a bona fide phenomenon, folks.

None of this is supposed to be happening because it's not the project for which two generations of Protestant and Catholic clergy have worked... The push for relativist moral teaching, "simplified" worship, interchangeable sex roles, and an utter separation of private belief from political expression has come from the pulpit as readily as it has been demanded by pseudo-intellectual elites. But against all odds, portions of a modern American society, which groans to find itself secularist, is returning in a quiet revolution to the fundamental truths of the Christian religion.

Meanwhile, no one should miss Melynda Huskey's wonderful rant in the comments of my "Beyond Majority Rule" review. Warning: it skewers a beloved Quaker institution!

Or maybe it was just the general whiff of the tomb--a really old tomb, all scent of decay long gone, and nothing left but dust and dead air. No Quakers here, pal. No George Fox rebuking priests from the next aisle. No Isaac Pennington seizing the moment of the Restoration to make Quakers as unpopular with the King and Court as they had been with the Protector and the Commonwealth. No Mary Dyer ready to swing off the gallows and into Glory for the sake of Light.