What marks the debates of the present day is that there are no such accepted authorities, and so the cultural game is marked by a continual subversion of stability rather than the establishment of greater stability through clarification of the social order in light of the sacred order.  Carl Trueman

A nice run along Yarrie Lake Rd this morning

In practice, it is we who decide our own preferred ends and shape our ethics to that purpose. Any greater sense of purpose, any transcendent teleology, is now dead and buried. Carl Trueman

Another day another bike ride 😂

It is also worth noting how emotivism is useful as a rhetorical strategy. When it comes to moral arguments, the tendency of the present age is to assert our moral convictions as normative and correct by rejecting those with which we disagree as irrational prejudice rooted in personal, emotional preference. Carl Trueman

Nice ride out to Eulah Creek Road this morning.

Individuals who disagree about gay marriage might think they are disagreeing merely about the limits of the legitimate identity of the contracting parties, but their actual differences go much deeper than that. They disagree on nothing less than the very definition of marriage relative to its ends. Carl Trueman

I rode right up to the Mount Kaputar National Park entrance this morning. Another beautiful morning.

No culture has ever preserved itself where it is not a registration of sacred order. There, cultures have not survived. The third culture notion of a culture that persists independent of all sacred orders is unprecedented in human history.  Carl Trueman

Yet another perfect morning for riding!