Welcome to blog and May blog from Doug Wills.com.

This audio is brought to you by Canon Press.

Before we get started, I wanted to make sure you knew that the Christian Heritage Series has two brand new editions since last week.

The first one I want to tell you about is Vindicki I Contra Tyrannos, or a defense of liberty against tyrants by Junius Brutus.

A quick quote from Dr. Glenn's Sunshine's introduction,

the Vindicki's sharp defense of the right to resist unjust rulers with armed rebellion

shaped the political theories of Locke in England and the founding fathers in America.

Get Vindicki I today at Canon Press.com.

And now for some words of encouragement, August 17, 2020.

America is currently in the grip of a fever, and fevers break.

The task of conservative believers is not to have a good testimony during this time of fevers panic.

Our necessary task is to still have a good testimony after the fever breaks. A narrative of panic that makes the

panic seem reasonable can only be sustained while the panic is on, but not

afterwards. During a season of madness, sanity will stand out and will be remembered.

It will be remembered with resentment by those who behave poorly and do not wish to acknowledge it.

It will be remembered with admiration by those who wished

they had responded better.

Panics are sustained while they are sustained by means of their own built-in plausibility

structure, but that plausibility structure is as evanescent

as the panic is and disappears when the panic does.

The panic only seems reasonable from the inside. This narrative of panic will therefore

necessarily fade. After it fades, it will not be a good testimony to have

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