11 resolutions for 2024,

for 2024, Culture War Edition, January 1st, 2024.

Introduction. It is a custom among our people. January 1st, 2024. Introduction

It is a custom among our people to make resolutions for the New Year,

and as this is the morning of January 1st, 2024, a brand spanking New Year,

and one that promises to be every bit as gnarly as the last several,

I thought I should offer a set of suggested resolutions for all conservative Christians.

I'm speaking of those who are engaged in what have come to be known as the culture wars.

That engagement might be at some distance where you are simply praying for your nation and

working hard to maintain the perimeter of your sanity bubble for your family or local congregation.

This is an effort not to be sneered at.

It is one of the most important things that can be done. It must be done and it must be

done by millions. Or perhaps you might be in the thick of the fray

where the bad guys know all about you and are trying to take you out.

You might, for example, be an evangelical lobbyist in Washington, where your job is to nod while Republicans lie to you.

So what should you resolve to do? How shall we then behave?

Except for the last resolution below, these come in no particular order. Number one, the color of your

pills. Resolved that you will have nothing whatever to do with pills that are the wrong color.

Stay far away from every kind of black pill because nobody around here needs any kind of niche in despair,

especially from sophomores.

Stop acting like we are the first civilization to come apart in tatters.

We don't know which French phrase applies,

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