The Cultural Mind: Collected Essays from Tabletalk Magazine

by Douglas Wilson, Nancy Wilson (Contributor)

“Nothing ages more rapidly than the current lust for contemporary relevance, and nothing ages more gracefully than an attitude of caring more about whether an observation is true than whether it is contemporary, or edgy, or emergent.” ~From The Cultural Mind In this collection of essays, Douglas Wilson explores all sorts of areas where the Bible should be applied in our lives--but isn’t. From the home to the public square, from the marriage bed to the pulpit, Doug uses Scriptural wisdom to expose the rot of our modern culture, and to show us how to build a culture with Christ at its center. The wide-ranging topics the need to recover masculinity in the church, the slippery slope of sexual perversity, the importance of fighting for and defending civic liberty, the sin of pacifism, the enervating vice of seeker-friendly worship, the dangers of a civil magistrate devoted to keeping us "safe." Originally written for Tabletalk magazine in the late 1990s and early 2000s, these articles are eerily prophetic, making them more relevant now than ever.

Genres: Theology, Christian

366 pages, Paperback

Published April 26, 2022

About the author

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

Reviews

[Caleb M. Powers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good stuff.

[Alexander Robertson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is Wilson at his best, piercing, funny, ever uncompromising, short, and sweet. If Chesterton wrote in the 21st century this is almost certainly what he would sound like!

[ValeReads Kyriosity · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best things about Goodreads is following Canon's audiobook editor so I know by his progress posts which titles are coming soon to the app. This one landed on Wednesday, and I finished it yesterday.

Doug's Tabletalk era was just a skosh before I really started reading him, so although these essays are all relatively long in the tooth, they seemed quite fresh to me (except the Y2K one...that felt nostalgic enough!). I know Doug's voice very well, and it was recognizable here, but a number topics and issues were ones I can recall having heard him address.

Joffre Swait's narration was great, per usual.

[Sean Kewley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, a collection of Wilson articles, is like a flight of whiskeys in neat snifters: I liked some more than others, and at the end, I was drunk as a skunk in Reformed theology and ready to get in a bar fight with the resident pagans. A must read!