Well, we're back in controversy land in evangelical circles.

A recent ad for New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho put out on social media, said this, young men wanted,

must be willing to hoist the Jolly Roger and Johnny Cash's favorite finger whenever faced

with idolatry. The favorite finger that is referred to there is the middle finger, which is, of course,

a very serious swear word in American culture. We talked about this yesterday in some depth. Why is this an issue

that New St. Andrews and Moscow and Canon Press and related entities, and I assume persons, are

promoting the usage of the middle finger. Why is this okay? You'll recall if you listen to that

previous episode that I condemned

this action in no uncertain terms, I didn't do so because I myself am a functionally perfect

Christian or because I am vying for the candidate position of church lady at large in evangelicalism

in 2024. I did so because the Bible says we are not to be a people of

unwholesome speech. Ephesians 429. We have a witness to the world. Our witness is supposed to be

distinct from the world. We're in the world, but not of the world, according to Jesus and John's

gospel. And so this is actually a matter that we kind of need to chase down. And we need to do

it in particular for the rising generation because there are a lot of young men and young women

who are tracking with Doug Wilson and Moscow generally in its institutions. And they have been

encouraged by the kind of countercultural joy, that spirit, that serrated edge, so-called,

that has come out of Moscow in the last five years or so or even beyond that.

And they're looking to Moscow, and they're looking to these institutions and to Wilson himself

as a kind of guide because, as I said, a good number of evangelical leaders have sort of, at least

to a degree, lost their voice with regard to a countercultural spirit that is marked by joy.

And so there were a lot of folks who went silent in momentous matters in the last roughly three

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