Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12.

This is resistance and reformation on the Fight Laugh Feast network.

Very much like America's founding fathers.

The Patristics are often invoked but seldom actually read.

They are often referenced but seldom actually quoted,

though they are at the heart of the traditionalist

sloganeering they have in fact only rarely actually contributed

to the traditions they supposedly have inspired.

Today they are the great unknowns, these church fathers, even in those communions that place much emphasis on apostolic

succession, the Roman Catholic Eastern Orthodox Anglican and Coptic churches, there is scant actual knowledge of those who

immediately succeeded the Apostles. Their words and works are seldom more than anecdotally revered.

The irony of this goes beyond the obvious.

The fact is, the writings of the patristics are imminently readable and widely available.

The earliest Christians were both literate and literary.

They were people of the book and of books.

As a result, their refined letters, sermons, tracks,

commentaries, manifestos, crados, dialogues,

proverbs, epigrams, and sagas were carefully preserved and

anthologized through the centuries.

The Herod and persecuted believers during the Imperial Epic took solace in their pastoral wisdom.

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