Welcome to Douglas Wilson's blog and May blog, presented by Canon Press.

My rejoinder to Kevin DeYoung, December 4th, 2023. Introduction.

So Kevin DeYoung set off a national conversation with this article.

When his article dropped, I was in the middle of wrapping up my November posts, and so a response

had to wait until today.

But I did have enough time to tweet that I thought Kevin's critique was a responsible critique

from a reasonable man, and so I asked all those who thought of themselves as being in my corner

to respond to him judiciously and in that spirit. As far as I could see, this is something they largely

did, but that did not mean that the responses were not pointed, telling, and

forceful. I'm going to try to do the same. I thank Kevin for this opportunity and look forward to

meeting him as a result of all this. This response is kind of a beast, but what are you going to do?

Our war with Crapola. Below, please find the latest promo ad for Cannon Plus.

After you watch it, you might wonder if we rushed it through production over the last week in order to respond to

Kevin's peace on the Moscow mood. But no, it was in the works already, and it summarizes our approach to all these

things nicely. We are at war with Crapola and are willing to use words like

Crapola as the occasion demands. Here's the video. Come for the mood, stay for the

substance. As the header for this section indicates I'm willing to play with

Kevin's point that some people are being

attracted by the mood and that doctrinal concerns are not really all that front and center.

But this is just a rhetorical playing around because you can't cover everything in a short little header.

So I would also want to note that as I have interacted with many of the people who are attracted

to Moscow, I find all sorts of variations on the central theme of reasons for coming. Come for the practical teaching, get used to the mood,

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