Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

Yeah. Yes, God, God, God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 311.

Good to have you with us. Thanks for coming. So I want to talk this time about a recent article that was

written by Kevin DeYoung on the Moscow mood. He's addressing the reasons why he thinks people are attracted to Moscow, why they're coming

here.

And his thesis, his theory is that people are attracted to the mojo or the vibe or the mood and that the

doctrinal issues are not really front and center.

So people are attracted to the swagger maybe.

And he thinks that there are reasons for that.

He thinks that reasonable Christians can be attracted to that.

DeYoung doesn't make the mistake that a lot of our critics make which is the

mistake of coming unhinged.

When someone tries to paint someone in the blackest of colors,

it is much more difficult for them to make their case,

particularly when the people they're talking to are

aware of some of what's going on. So anybody who has even a passing acquaintance with what's going on here in

Moscow is going to know that the unhinged analysis is not correct.

And so Kevin DeYoung begins by doing something I think really quite reasonable and that is that he

acknowledged he gives credit where credits do but because he gives credit where

credit is due it sort of undermines his whole case. So he wants to say that I have done a number of good things and that I present a muscular, angular, sort of Christianity without compromise and that my family

loves Christ and my family loves me.

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