Religion

I posted the “Forever Culture Wars” item just now, about the importance of forming a real Christian resistance, and then checked my e-mail. Lo, a pastor sends me notice that since Friday’s Title IX ukase, he has been e-mailing back and forth with the principal and superintendent of his first-grade daughter’s public school, trying to determine what they really believe about the transgender bathroom issue, and what they plan to do about it. He hasn’t gotten a straight answer.

Today the pastor and his wife met with the principal. He writes:

One common rhetorical reflex of progressives is the idea that conservatives, and only conservatives, wage culture war. What they mean — whether they realize it or not — is that conservatives have the nerve to say “no” to whatever progressives propose today. If conservatives wage culture war, it is usually (but not always) a defensive one.

Kursk Root icon, in Starhill (Photo by Rod Dreher)

Amazing time tonight at our mission parish. The Kursk Root icon visited. It dates to the 13th century, and has an incredible history. It is one of the great treasures of Russian Christianity, and it is here in the United States because an Orthodox bishop smuggled it out in 1920 to keep it safe from the Bolsheviks.

Let joy be unconfined! Villanova’s Katie Grimes, America’s Theological Sweetheart™, has pronounced that Our Lord is kinda transgender. Excerpt:

Reader Anna Salyi, a Catholic in Hungary, sends two great e-mails. I publish them with her permission: