February 2016 Monthly Archive

If You Plan to Move to Moscow, Idaho

Natalie Rose Greenfield has uploaded a transcript of recorded meeting between her father and Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow. In the meeting Mr. Wilson replaced his pastor hat with his mobster hat with his broker hat — but in the end we know that Mr. Wilson picked up his baseball bat to settle this score.

Life in the Kirk is actually much worse than what the interview reveals, but it’s a good starting point for those of you who may be considering Moscow, Idaho, for your next home.

And Katie Botkin has written another great post, which she titled The Man Who Would Be King.

All this for a coffee shop.

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 |

“Feminist Rape Constructs”

Of course, I hasten to break satiric voice here because we live in a time when satire has become virtually impossible. Someone might think that I am the one urging that we go easy on rapists, when it is I who want to deal with rapists with actual biblical justice. It is feminism that is laying all the intellectual — heh, so to speak — groundwork for a robust defense of both rape and rapists.
Douglas Wilson

Guest Post: On Consent

by Boudica

Motions in Limine: consent

“As my letter makes plain, Jamin was guilty of sexual behavior with a girl who was below the age of consent. She was underage. Our letter acknowledged fully that Jamin was guilty of criminal behavior, and we wanted him to pay the penalty for that criminal behavior, which was a species of statutory rape.” — Douglas Wilson Continue reading →

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 |

Protection & Propriety

Statistically, if you attend Christ Church and particularly if you board Wilson’s seminary or college students, your children have a high-ish likelihood of being molested or otherwise preyed on by adult men in completely inappropriate ways. Wilson knows this is . . . Continue reading →

Monday, February 15, 2016 |

“Gritty Realism”

Gritty Realism

‘To the extent that women have begun to appear in this shooter world, they do so as caricatures — with cartoonishly erotic bodies. The characteristic pose of Laura Croft from Eidos’s Tomb Raider is a straight-on view of her scowling face, skinny waist, pneumatic breasts, and two huge guns that she’s aiming directly at you. Like other female shooter games, such as Perfect Dark (Nintendo, 1999) and ONI (Bungie, 1999), the Tomb Raider series wants us to see the incredible buns and boobs, connected by a fragile Barbie waist, in motion’ (Lawrence and Jewett, The Myth of the American Superhero, p. 217).
Douglas Wilson

“On Not Being Scabrous”

A second issue has to do with the common assumption that anything that is lawful in one medium is lawful in another. But I don’t believe that this is the case at all. Some things should be strictly limited in how they are communicated. Trevin Wax said this in one of his posts: ‘If a movie version of the book of Genesis were made, it wouldn’t be for minors.’ This is quite true, and this means that to write a novel that contained the same level of description as Genesis does would be lawful to do. ‘And behold, it was Leah.’ The same with the Song of Solomon. Writing and publishing erotic poetry is clearly within bounds for believers. But do we get to make Song of Solomon: The Movie? Not a chance. Do we get to film those portions of Ezekiel where we see the Assyrians who are hung like a donkey and ejaculate like horses (Eze. 23:20)? We don’t just look at the content of what is said — we must also take care to learn how it is said. The media matter. Ezekiel can do what he does with words, and we can imitate him in our use of words, everything else being equal. But if we made a movie out of it, then we are clearly being scabrous.
Douglas Wilson

Don’t waste time transferring your membership.

A serial pastor asks a convicted child abuser, who is also a convicted perjurer in the matter of his child abuse, if he had permission to abuse the child. The perjurer says, “Yes, the parents and I agreed to a secret courtship.” The serial pastor nods his head: “That’s what I thought.”

8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 am.

Sunday, February 7, 2016 |