Hey everybody, i wrote a piece about one new organizational tactic I’m trying out in the attempt to build a resistance to fascism: I joined the church down the street. Hope you like it — www.liberalcurrents.com/reclaiming-o...
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I went back to church in 2017 and rejoined the local Unitarian society.
jul 25, 2025, 11:15 am • 1 0 • view
Thought-provoking piece, I knew a reference to MacIntyre was coming the moment I saw your central thesis! And while I always felt something similar regarding a national identity (i.e. "Why are these guys 'the true sons of Turkey' but I'm not?"), but doesn't orthodoxy *really* matter for religion?
jul 24, 2025, 3:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, religions obviously move their doxa over time, but if you still maintain all four of the reasons you list in the article, for instance, I feel like maybe there *is* a categorical separation to be had with the religious community there.
jul 24, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
You were raised in a Tradition, yes, but surely after some degree of divergence you're now part of a (nascent) new community and too fundamentally different from the old one, right?
jul 24, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I think whether orthopraxy or orthodoxy is more central to a religious identity can’t be settled abstractly: it’s something that gets established in the practical life of a specific community.
jul 24, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Christianity has put us in this position.
jul 25, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view