Two Daily Wire Documentaries and Two Carl Trueman Books in Two Days

‘What Is a Woman?’ made me both extremely sad and angry for what has been lost, squandered, and even systematically made war against in America and the West over the past century. But Matt Walsh and the folks at The Daily Wire did an excellent job on the documentary, and Walsh comes across as genuine, while they come across as lunatics if they don’t agree that women are real, known, and objective.To quote Larry the Cucumber, “I laughed, I cried. It moved me, Bob.” But what is a cucumber? And do cucumbers exist, or do we just assign them that name at birth in a presumptuous way? Maybe vegetables are a social construct.As for the more recent documentary put out by DW, 'The Greatest Lie Ever Sold' with Candace Owens - if you or someone you know has questions about the legitimacy of the narrative surrounding Black Lives Matter the movement, or recent allegations of misappropriation of funds, watch this.Speaking personally, I lost a lot of friends over the BLM, CRT, woke, social justice business, especially since the death of George Floyd; and besides that, several important family relationships were put under immense strain as I tried to write about this. And there weren’t just insinuations of racism casually thrown at anyone who questioned the Leftist mainstream media narrative; lives were lost, businesses destroyed, communities ravaged, and the social fabric of America was arguably torn in two about it.The money donated going to the purchase of lavish mansions is shocking; but the underlying premise was a lie peddled by mercenaries, anarchists, trained activists, mountebanks, sycophants, and the brainwashed masses who were unwilling to stop and question the evidence. Therefore, there was no other way in which the money could have been spent that would not have been fraudulent given the premise on which the donations were solicited and made.But as for 'Strange New World' by Carl Trueman, I have two words for you: Social Imaginary. And what that is, which Trueman talks about for a good bit in this book, you could do worse than a 12-minute YouTube video explaining the concept by Ellie Hain on the channel ‘The World We Create,’ not least because she has an absolutely gorgeous accent.The short version is that where all was theological before, when theology was “Queen of the Sciences,” now everything is politics, economics, and psychology as the upending of the old world order necessitates secularizing everything.For those who also read ‘Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self’ by Trueman, a lot of what is in this book will be familiar, but not tedious for its repetition or rephrasing. And it is good to hope, and to put our hope in Christ, and to continue striving to be faithful to God in building up and strengthening our families and local churches in the timeless truths of God’s Word, come what may.Yet Mark Noll wrote his famous book to criticize evangelicals in the U.S. for not engaging the culture, and not cultivating their intellects. “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there’s not much of one,” he famously said. According to Carl Trueman, 'The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind' is that there’s not much of an evangelical. As he says, this is because we don’t agree about what the evangel is.Christian pastors, teachers, professors, authors, and intellectuals have for decades been undermining their testimony and witness, not so much for opting out of spaces they are either thrown out of or not invited to in the first place. But works like Noll’s shift the onus from those who are gatekeeping on the basis of theological liberalism and secularization to those who are being locked out, further delaying rectification of the fatal error.It’s like a big brother who’s so much stronger than his little brother saying “Stop hitting yourself” as he clubs him with his own hand.