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. 2.

This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh, feast network.

We moderns are enamored of progress.

We live at a time when things shiny and new are prized far above things old and time-worn. For most of us, tradition is little more than a quirky and nostalgic

sentimentalism. It is hardly more than the droning, monotonous succession of obsolete notions, anachronous ideals,

and antiquarian habits, sound and fury, signifying nothing. Henry Ford called an awareness

of history and an appreciation for the past mere bunk. Augustine Borell called it a dust heap.

Guy de Mappesant dubbed it that excitable and lying old lady. But the sage Samuel Johnson retorted,

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days,

to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

He understood that connections to the past are the only sure leads to the future.

History is not just the concern of historians and social scientists.

It is not the lonely domain of political prognosticators and ivory tower academics.

It is the very stuff of life.

As Winston Churchill declared, the greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost, when we learned the lessons of history.

In fact, history is also the very stuff of faith.

The Bible puts a heavy emphasis on historical awareness, not at all surprising considering

the fact that the vast proportion of its own contents record the dealings of God with men and nations throughout the ages.

History is his story. God calls upon his people to remember. He calls on them to remember the bondage, oppression,

and deliverance of Egypt. He calls on them to remember the splendor, strength, and devotion

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