"the role that Internet mastery played in the rise of New Calvinism"
In the early 2000s guys in my college cohort would download mp3s of John Piper sermons from DGM (available for free), burn them to CDs, and pass them around. The Internet was a significant a force multiplier for that movement.
Good overview Aaron. I think it's balanced and on-target.
>New Calvinism speaks to their cultural values in ways that other evangelical subcultures do not. For example, most of these folks, even if some of them did vote for Donald Trump, are certainly not Trumpists and definitely reject the Trumpian style.
A prediction I've had for a while, and it's probably a no-brainer: regardless of how well Trump delivers, most Americans are going to be very, very sick of the Trumpian style by 2028. Including many who voted for him. It will probably be a good moment to have cultivated a plainly non-Trumpian style and aesthetic.
I think back to how sick so many of us were of GWB in 2008. Including those of us that voted for him twice and voted for McCain! I think the effect will be even larger than that.
I learned a great deal from, and will always be grateful to, Keller and some of the others here. I remember thinking during their heyday: wow, what a great team!
What most strikes me, looking back, is how a series of new political issues came up that split the group (as far as I can tell, looking in from the outside): Black Lives Matter, Trump, COVID, etc. etc. the usual laundry list.
It was a lesson to me that you can be 100 percent in doctrinal agreement and fellowship with someone, and suddenly wake up and be deeply divided by worldly political issues. Apparently this division couldn't have been prevented.
Moving out a bit from this specific group, I could never have predicted that, e.g. Christianity Today and Russell Moore would have ended up as 'woke' as they are. Or that hard-right (Stephen Wolfe) or far-far-far-far-right (Corey Mahler) figures would have the following that they do. Not sure how things are going to look in another 10 years.
"the role that Internet mastery played in the rise of New Calvinism"
In the early 2000s guys in my college cohort would download mp3s of John Piper sermons from DGM (available for free), burn them to CDs, and pass them around. The Internet was a significant a force multiplier for that movement.
Good overview Aaron. I think it's balanced and on-target.
>New Calvinism speaks to their cultural values in ways that other evangelical subcultures do not. For example, most of these folks, even if some of them did vote for Donald Trump, are certainly not Trumpists and definitely reject the Trumpian style.
A prediction I've had for a while, and it's probably a no-brainer: regardless of how well Trump delivers, most Americans are going to be very, very sick of the Trumpian style by 2028. Including many who voted for him. It will probably be a good moment to have cultivated a plainly non-Trumpian style and aesthetic.
I think back to how sick so many of us were of GWB in 2008. Including those of us that voted for him twice and voted for McCain! I think the effect will be even larger than that.
Turns out the "New Calvinism" wasn't Calvinism at all. Just an empty shell dressed up like Calvinism.
I learned a great deal from, and will always be grateful to, Keller and some of the others here. I remember thinking during their heyday: wow, what a great team!
What most strikes me, looking back, is how a series of new political issues came up that split the group (as far as I can tell, looking in from the outside): Black Lives Matter, Trump, COVID, etc. etc. the usual laundry list.
It was a lesson to me that you can be 100 percent in doctrinal agreement and fellowship with someone, and suddenly wake up and be deeply divided by worldly political issues. Apparently this division couldn't have been prevented.
Moving out a bit from this specific group, I could never have predicted that, e.g. Christianity Today and Russell Moore would have ended up as 'woke' as they are. Or that hard-right (Stephen Wolfe) or far-far-far-far-right (Corey Mahler) figures would have the following that they do. Not sure how things are going to look in another 10 years.