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Thread Title: Crunchy Cons  [Feature]
Created On February 24, 2006 12:31 AM
  Crunchy Cons - Godspy
  Crunchy Cons but no Orthodox Libs? - the_bri_guy
  Crunchy Cons - TonyC
  Crunchy Cons - robsisson


Godspy

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February 24, 2006 12:31 AM

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How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party). An excerpt from 'Crunchy Cons'...

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the_bri_guy

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March 19, 2006 3:55 AM

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Great interview with Dreher, and glad to hear that the Holy Spirit is leading hard core conservatives to their better senses, to broader, more luminous perspectives.

My challenge:

There does not seem to be an equal amount of spotlight given to intellectuals and activists from the liberal camp who are also transcending the narrowness of the culture wars and learning to appreciate the beautiful way in which Christian Orthodoxy transcends the ideologies of right and left. Perhaps I am biased, but I get the feeling that Godspy underplays the true successors of Dorothy Day and Graham Greene, their progeny of the present moment, while at the same time claiming the patronage of these classic Catholic creative thinkers.

with concern, but certainly not without respect
for the much good that Godspy continually does,


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June 12, 2006 6:09 PM

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I think Berry hits the nail on the head when he speaks about both polarized sides of the debate intransigently clinging to an erroneous view of economics. There has been a deliberate economic agenda over the last 100 years to get North Americans off the land and into the cities. Having been in both camps, I see how the mega-sprawling urban paradigm for community organization is feeding a monstrous, frantic economic machine that is controlled at the top by very few greedy people. For me, the moral issue here will only be addressed when people of the West wake up to the lies they've been told about how then have to live, make money and become self-realized successes. Now, the American manufacturing sector has been gutted and shipped off to the developing world. America is poised for a massive depression, and international banks are running as fast as they can from the US dollar. Much of what we've believed about our world is like the house built on sand, and what a fall it will have. My hope is that it won't be too late for us to stand together as one, united as flesh-and-blood, and not as whites, blacks, liberals, conservatives etcetera. There is enough land to go around; may God give us the gift of the Spirit to work together to use it as originally intended.

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robsisson

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Crunchy Cons is a great book. It really confirmed my own beliefs and actions. As the Michigan Chapter president of Republicans for Environmental Protection, I look up the noses of a lot of the "establishment" GOP'ers. REP America works to develop true conservative environmental policy and to develop local officials, who are conservationists, into state and national political offices. Dreher mentions us in the book. Look us up at www.repamerica.org. Rob Sisson

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