Vigen Guroian on Politics vs. Witness
…Falwell, in large part the Silent Majority was ‘into’ [as we said back then] ‘personal peace and affluence’. Thus any beliefs they may have had about divorce [which the Religious…
…Falwell, in large part the Silent Majority was ‘into’ [as we said back then] ‘personal peace and affluence’. Thus any beliefs they may have had about divorce [which the Religious…
We have repeated Francis Schaeffer’s warning about ‘personal peace and affluence’ often at Blue Kennel, but it’s time to do it again. He declared, back about 1970, that the ‘Silent…
The rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is kind of a shock to the American system. But a European would know exactly, in my opinion, where they fit in….
…Francis Schaeffer’s “personal peace and affluence”.] Christians are not the only victims of this; Muslims have to fight to build mosques also, in some areas. There is the concept, also,…
…soft authoritarianism because we prefer “personal peace and affluence” to true liberty is a very real concern. And I don’t think such an authoritarianism will appear in a form that…
…that suburban politics is driven not primarily by love of liberty or love of virtue but by the two ultimate values of personal peace and affluence [which I sometimes abbreviate…
…for those suburbanites who were motivated by what famous evangelical leader Francis Schaeffer called “the two horrible values of personal peace and affluence.” It was not a party for crony…
…hollowed out and shallow – a point made in Francis Schaeffer’s comments on “personal peace and affluence,” in C. S. Lewis’s essay “Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” and in Don Henley’s…
…values of personal peace and affluence,” which trump all others in large parts of our culture, especially among what they used to call 30 years ago the “Silent Majority.” And…