Book Review 16: Christianity & Liberalism

The Family. Ep 027

The Family is one of the most basic units of society. Join us as we discuss what the family unit is, what the purpose of the family is and how we might strengthen the family unit. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeSL4tBBdtOmZwKyxqcKHVw www.thesanctifiedmind.com

Book Review 17: The American Way

This review covers, The "American Way": Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity by Allan Carlson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw54SbKdrD8 The United States of America is arguably more family-centered than any other Western nation. If polling data can be trusted, the vast majority of Americans a higher percentage than in any other nation would rather build society around the family and the church than around the individual. In fact, family and religiously grounded community not individualism, not capitalism, and not a commitment to polyglot cultural pluralism have historically provided the basis of America's dominant self-understanding. "The American Way," Allan Carlson's episodic history of the last century, shows how the nation's identity has been shaped by carefully constructed images of the American family and the American home. From the surprisingly radical measures put forth by Theodore Roosevelt to encourage stable, large families, to the unifying role of the image of the home in assimilating immigrants, to the "maternalist" activists who attempted to transform the New Deal and other social welfare programs into vehicles for shoring up traditional family life, Carlson convincingly demonstrates the widespread appeal exerted by the images of family and community. Carlson also shows how a family- and faith-centered discourse anchored Henry Luce's publishing enterprise and even American foreign policy during the Cold War. But many of the reforms and ideas championed by pro-family forces in the twentieth century family activists' embrace of the federal bureaucracy, Luce's propaganda for suburban living and modern architecture inadvertently worked to undermine family and community life, writes Carlson. And he shows that the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which effectively made it illegal for employers to offer male breadwinners a "living wage," has made it harder for traditional families to make ends meet, further helping to fracture family life. Carlson concludes by arguing that, despite the half-hearted and partially successful attempt of the Reagan administration to again forge a link between the American identity and healthy family life, much bolder measures are necessary if American culture is again to be put on a family- and community-centered footing. Written with grace and precision, "The American Way" is revisionist history of the highest order. https://www.amazon.com/American-Way-C... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGNZdjUzZnd0akhTd0RWYkNxMG9SSV9lM0NEUXxBQ3Jtc0trNmVFLWFMTktXbU1Ddjh2ZUF4VVNTQWVaUW1OX2d6SndaVjRUVGRNUE13bnhnRkFmUUJ3aDMxR21yaV9VMFdJRnFhYmRHNFI0YUpTQnBVNy1jbjYzaVpHVF9GRE9NaGY0WWdTU1R6dmpHWlQ2TEZWQQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAmerican-Way-Community-Shaping-Identity%2Fdp%2F1932236112%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Dthe%2Bamerican%2Bway%2Bthe%2Bshaping%2Bof%2Bamerican%26qid%3D1633994135%26sr%3D8-1] Thesanctifiedmind.com SHOW LESS

The Shape of Liberalism. Ep 026

Join us and our guest Bob as we talk about the importance of doctrine, how to fight liberalism, dialectic vs rhetoric (the importance of storytelling) and more! www.thesanctifiedmind.com

Book Review 16: Christianity & Liberalism

Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen is on the menu this month! If you have not read this book, you should! This classic defense of orthodox Christianity, written to counter the liberalism that arose in the early 1900s, establishes the importance of scriptural doctrine and contrasts the teachings of liberalism and orthodoxy on God and man, the Bible, Christ, salvation, and the church. J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism has remained relevant through the years ever since its original publication in 1923.

American Christianity. Ep 025

Jeff joins us again to discuss American Christianity. In this episode we talk about the relevance of Christianity, ecumenicalism, solo scriptura vs sola scriptura and what the place of the church is in our society. www.thesanctifiedmind.com