As far as I know, I am the only Catholic writer currently focusing on this topic. Maybe Timothy Gordon talks about it, and I will give him credit where due. I plan on reading his book below next.
How & why did I start to focus on this topic? In my circles of influence, I listen to a lot of Conservative Evangelical leaders, such as The Steve Deace Show, and phrases like "Revival or Bust" started cropping up. And it makes sense that because America is a Protestant nation, then Protestants should want to reform themselves. And I think their movement will make a lot of progress, but only to the degree that their goals are the right ones. So I asked, "What is their definition of Revival?"
So far, Revival is a somewhat limited concept to them, limited to Restoration not Re-Reformation, as if Protestant America had reached perfection at one point, and then somehow was lost over time, not due to any fault of Protestantism.
I don't buy that. I think there are some major flaws in Protestantism that created today's culture, and my goal is to identify it and bring it to the forefront and ask all these Protestant leaders to perform some introspection and self-reflection, so that we don't simply repeat the same mistakes of history.
Anyway, the fact that I'm treading new ground here makes it interesting -- it makes it harder to compile the essential historical facts & figures & timelines that I can easily use to provide evidence for my case, but it also gives me enjoyment that I have a unique purpose and my own little mission that perhaps one day I can publish as a book so that others can understand what it is that I'm challenging Protestant leaders to recognize.
More “Take Me Back to Yesterday” talk without fixing anything.
https://x.com/JoelWBerry/status/1920537379170877885
This nostalgic article by Catholic Adventurer nicely overlaps with my "Take Me Back to Yesterday" theme -
https://substack.com/home/post/p-159903964
Another example of “Take Me Back to Yesterday” -
https://substack.com/@waysofagentleman/note/c-113661256?r=2b41jp&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Here’s another example of an article by the “Take Me Back to Yesterday” movement—
https://open.substack.com/pub/auronmacintyre/p/erase-the-bible-lose-the-west-and?r=2b41jp&utm_medium=ios
For those interested in my source material, here are a few:
An Anxious Age
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/16449/an-anxious-age-by-joseph-bottum/
Holy Sex
https://www.christianbook.com/catholic-guide-curling-blowing-infallible-loving/gregory-popcak/9780824524715/pd/524715
As far as I know, I am the only Catholic writer currently focusing on this topic. Maybe Timothy Gordon talks about it, and I will give him credit where due. I plan on reading his book below next.
Catholic Republic
https://sophiainstitute.com/product/catholic-republic/
How & why did I start to focus on this topic? In my circles of influence, I listen to a lot of Conservative Evangelical leaders, such as The Steve Deace Show, and phrases like "Revival or Bust" started cropping up. And it makes sense that because America is a Protestant nation, then Protestants should want to reform themselves. And I think their movement will make a lot of progress, but only to the degree that their goals are the right ones. So I asked, "What is their definition of Revival?"
So far, Revival is a somewhat limited concept to them, limited to Restoration not Re-Reformation, as if Protestant America had reached perfection at one point, and then somehow was lost over time, not due to any fault of Protestantism.
I don't buy that. I think there are some major flaws in Protestantism that created today's culture, and my goal is to identify it and bring it to the forefront and ask all these Protestant leaders to perform some introspection and self-reflection, so that we don't simply repeat the same mistakes of history.
Anyway, the fact that I'm treading new ground here makes it interesting -- it makes it harder to compile the essential historical facts & figures & timelines that I can easily use to provide evidence for my case, but it also gives me enjoyment that I have a unique purpose and my own little mission that perhaps one day I can publish as a book so that others can understand what it is that I'm challenging Protestant leaders to recognize.