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This audio is brought to you by Canon Press. But a little cloud, January 28, 2021. Introduction. On one occasion, the Roman Emperor, Julian and the Apostate, told the people of

Alexandria that they could choose another bishop for themselves, but that Athanasius had to leave

Alexandria. Athanasius encouraged his friends by telling them

that Julian was quote unquote but a little cloud that was going to soon pass over.

And this confidence from an early church father can provide us with another bit of encouragement

in troubleless times.

We are in our day confronted with quite a cluster of challenges, from Biden to Big Tech and

a range of other tedious troubles in between, and all of them are but a little cloud. Here's why.

Schaefer for the win.

Back in the mid 70s, Francis Schaefer released a 10-part film series,

How Shall We Then Live?

We are now coming up on 50 years later, and Nancy and I recently decided to watch the

series again.

As expected, it was quite good, but I was particularly struck by what he predicted in the

concluding episode and the way he predicted it. One of the great themes of the

series was that a Christian consensus was necessary to prevent freedom from devolving into chaos.

Given a Christian consensus it was possible to have form and freedom together

without one swallowing up the other.

But when that consensus is lost and form swallows freedom, you have tyranny straight up.

When freedom swallows form you have anarchy, which leads to a different kind of tyranny.

Now remember that he was saying all this before the rise of the internet.

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