Tag Archives: individualism

A Place in Glory

Posted on March 24, 2024 by ehurst

Catacomb Resident Blog has been talking a lot lately about the necessity of a cultural shift in our minds to the biblical standard of collectivism and honor/shame based thinking: Collectivism 1, 2 and 3; honor/shame culture 1, 2 and 3. … Continue reading →

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Leaving the Herd 05

Posted on January 19, 2023 by ehurst

We need to make some distinctions before I end this series. The individualism of the West is a very poor match for biblical self-reliance. The former arises from the challenge of survival that became an inherited trait of in the … Continue reading →

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Team, Family, Church

Posted on December 10, 2018 by ehurst

I was right, but for all the wrong reasons. My first job out of teachers’ college was at a private school as a long-term substitute. I finished out the year for a Social Studies teacher who had walked off the … Continue reading →

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Moral Good is Multi-generational 02

Posted on November 24, 2018 by ehurst

If you can grasp Part 1 from yesterday, then you are in a position to understand why we reject Western style free market capitalism and libertarian philosophy. Everything in the West presumes a fundamental orientation on the individual. Even when … Continue reading →

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Moral Good is Multi-generational 01

Posted on November 23, 2018 by ehurst

Divine revelation is just another term for a living Creation, the person of reality. If you defy revelation, you defy reality itself, and it’s a personal failure. Reality will take it as a personal insult from you, but it affects … Continue reading →

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