Just found your substack by googling “we are living in Mordor”. I’ve been having lengthy discussions with my husband on this as we are in year 5 of an adult child embracing an alternate lifestyle, a home church that is woefully lacking any semblance of spiritual backbone, and an increasing number of disturbing interactions with the world whenever we dare to leave the shire and venture out into public. Your words resonate. Thank you for articulating what we are feeling. Please keep writing. 💕 from Texas
“Actually, I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ – though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Just found your substack by googling “we are living in Mordor”. I’ve been having lengthy discussions with my husband on this as we are in year 5 of an adult child embracing an alternate lifestyle, a home church that is woefully lacking any semblance of spiritual backbone, and an increasing number of disturbing interactions with the world whenever we dare to leave the shire and venture out into public. Your words resonate. Thank you for articulating what we are feeling. Please keep writing. 💕 from Texas
You have an appreciative reader in Montréal, Québec!
* The link to the First Things article at the beginning doesn't work! This is the article, yes?https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/02/the-three-worlds-of-evangelicalism *
“Actually, I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ – though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
One of the deeply appreciative three dozen from the antipodes in Brisbane, Australia. Keep writing Kirsten... your musings are marvelous.
I am one of the two dozen faithful readers, and greatly appreciate your words.