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The Charlie Kirk Show
"zander van" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"That's what you have to do to fix this. And folks, just so you understand how bad things are in the church in America today, okay? Now, I get invited to churches with a pastures are heroes, like whether it's rob McCoy or Jack hips. There are a number of churches around this country where they have been heroic and by the way, when they speak about this kind of stuff, real people who normally don't go to church think, you know what? I think I'll go to that church because they are dealing with what I'm dealing with in my life. They're relevant. They care about me and my problems. And the churches that are afraid to talk about this because they're afraid they're going to lose somebody's tie. They're going to lose some people. Those churches are struggling to stay open, praise the lord. That's called the free market. But I want to say, if you want to know how bad things are, when I wrote my book letter to the American jerk, I submitted to the publisher, that day I got a book in the mail from zander van, a Christian publisher. The book was written by Charles Stanley, huge mega church pastor in Atlanta, and the book effectively argued precisely the opposite of everything I say in my book. Using scripture verses and misunderstanding of history and basically advocating that the church avoid the culture wars, avoid getting involved in these things. Just stick to the gospel, you know, just like the Chinese communists want you to just stick to the gospel. And I read the book because I felt obliged to understand how somebody could think this. And it was a mess. It's a horror. I don't know Andy Stanley. But here's where it gets very bad. I went to the Amazon page. There was a big happy blurb from Jim Daly, the head of focus on the family. And I want to say, if you've ever given money to focus on the family, you need to write a letter to Jim Daly and help him to understand he's a good man. I will tell you he's a good man. He's getting this wrong. There are many good men and women getting this wrong. They need to understand that there will be consequences if you get this wrong. And we need to understand it is that bad that someone that we would think of here's our values is saying, yeah, I'm all on board with silence in the face of evil. Let's just stick to our little gospel. That idea is fundamentally wrong. It has led us to the horror where we find ourselves today and unless we repent what happened in Germany in the 30s will be nothing compared to what will happen because of the silence of the American church. It's so incredibly important, important that you get involved that you do something that you figure out what you can do and you do it. Protecting your kids, I just pleaded with you. It's very, very, very key to this. You must protect their minds. You must raise them with truth. You must raise them with courage, but you also have to have that courage and you have to find that truth if you're going to do it. You have to be able to cut through the BS. There's good men and women all over this country who are like, yeah, but I don't know. Maybe it's okay. It's not okay. It's not something we can go with part way. This is among the greatest evils that's ever been visited upon humanity. And if you don't understand that, then you don't understand what you're dealing with. So you absolutely must be willing to stand for truth, which is good, and goodness, which is obviously good. And you must stand for those things bravely. It's like if you look back at C. S. Lewis, you look back at Narnia, right? What does he say? Is Aslan dangerous? Of course he's dangerous, but he's good..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"zander van" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And this has been written about that far greater critics than me. One critic named MH Abrams wrote a wonderful book about it. Many of them started to reinvent Christianity as an internal religion. Instead of talking about the man's relationship to God, they started talking about man's relationship to himself and his relationship to nature. And C. S. Lewis, the great Christian apologist, red wordsworth, and he said, yes, if you follow this train of thought, you will be converted. You know, it's not the end. It's the beginning. But you follow that road and you will be converted. And that's what happened to wordsworth. Wordsworth was converted. And at the heart of all of them, I think he sort of becomes the anti hero, the hero of the book, but he was such a mess of Samuel coleridge, who was the most brilliant man of his generation, one of the most brilliant men who ever lived. He almost knew everything. He was the one guy that knew that Jesus Christ was at the center of their search. And he went from writer to writer to writer, talked incessantly and changed all of them. And sometimes, you know, he brought them just a new way of seeing things. So what happened to me is when I went back to the gospels to try and understand them, I realized these guys had built a road back to the gospels from a place very much like the place where we live. And I started to think, well, if you follow that road, maybe you come back to the gospels and see them in a new way. And that's what happened to me, that I started to read the words of Jesus, a genuinely new way. And it's not that it changes the old things that you know. It's simply more. It simply expands it because the thing that I don't think Jesus was saying was be nice or you'll be punished. And if you're nice, you get a big reward. That's not what I think he was actually saying. I don't think we needed the king of our universe to do what he did to give us that piece of information. He was telling you away just he was giving you a way of seeing things. You know, there's all these lines in the gospels that you forget about, like where he says, I want the joy that's in me to be in you. Something think about that for a minute and think like the Christians I know have the joy that is in Jesus in them and enjoy, I don't use the word joy to mean happiness. You know, it's not like you're supposed to walk around with a big grin on your face when things are falling apart. It's what the poet's called Gusto. You're supposed to live. Has it been matters as if every minute you're alive is important and exciting and interesting even when it is incredibly painful and full of suffering. And the poets actually teach that and when you read what they say and you go back to Jesus, you realize he's taking it to even the next level. There is so much in this book. As I say, I read the whole book yesterday. So it can't be that long. But it is just loaded with, I mean, we're going to go to a break. But just your bringing to life, characters with whom I had the most glancing familiarity like Samuel Taylor coleridge and keats and just to see them as human beings and that alone is a high recommendation to read the book. We'll be right back talking to Andrew clave in the book is the truth and beauty. Volks welcome back, I'm talking to Andrew clavin. Do you understand I'm talking to Andrew clavin, he's written a book called the truth and beauty. It's an amazing book. It is at least brilliant, at least, brilliant. And it was just wonderful to read Andrew, I want to say, congratulations on really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you, obviously, said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster yows he's now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest. And God bless him. For doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"zander van" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you, obviously, said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster Joanne sees now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest and God bless him for doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned it. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems. I'm really glad you bring this up because the whole thing was, I know that people don't read poetry. Poetry is dead. The art of poetry is for people like me who study English literature and who love English literature, but most people don't read it. And I didn't want you to have to know poetry or even like it to get into what I was saying. And these people lived some of the most interesting lives in literary history. They were I mean, there were 6 of them greatest poets who have ever lived living on the island, the British island at the same time. They were geniuses. They were drug addicts. They were scoundrels. They were brilliant. They fought with each other, they yelled at each other. I mean, this book starts with a wild, drunken party. They were all at the whole books have been written about this party. So I just wanted to get you into their minds so that you could see that what they were doing, this challenge of rebuilding the consciousness of human beings for the modern age was a dramatic human challenge taken on by dramatic humans. And the thing about intellectual life when it's lived at that level is it's just as exciting as being an explorer or being a soldier or any of the things that we always say. This is more dangerous. I mean, when I look at some ways that are destroyed, when you think of a Byron Mary Shelley, it's an interesting thing because we have seen it in our time. You parallel this era of the romantics from a little bit over 200 years ago with the modern era and the 60s. And we all see lives that have been destroyed, the abortions, the broken hearts, that just the drug deaths, right? It's very similar what you're writing about. I mean, when you talk about Byron's sister and all of this incredible, I mean, it's kind of funny because it is by renes. The romantic poet, the byronic hero, living for himself. It's kind of like a nietzschean ubermensch before Nietzsche, right? Just breaking all the rules and destroying humans in his wake, just leaving humans in his wake. But there's so many of these characters, and then some of them are really good people. I mean, when you look at wordsworth, keats. I mean, it's just, you know, I wish somebody would do a mini series a streaming series for Amazon Prime or something because these are amazing stories. And I know a number of these stories have been told here and there. But let's just talk about coleridge, for example. I really knew nothing about coleridge. And you, I mean, is there anybody funnier, more entertaining, more crazy, amazing, beautiful than Samuel coleridge? We should all know who he is, and you bring him to life. Yeah, and there are long paragraphs written about how much he talked. Just people were absolutely stunned by the wave of conversation that came off them. And every single one of them was changed. And when he met wordsworth when he first really got friendly with wordsworth, wordsworth was lost, you know, he was kind of a coleridge called him a semi atheist. He didn't know how to deal with the failure of the French Revolution. He had been a radical and now all his radical dreams were gone. He didn't have any money. You didn't know where he was going after a year of listening to coleridge pound him with talk. He became the greatest poet of his generation. And it was clearly from a collaboration with poet with coleridge that he had this vision of the human mind as being in collaboration essentially with God as he called it with the one great mind and that your life is a part of creation. Your life is continued creation. That was coleridge's idea that became wordsworth's idea. When he met keats, keats was on the verge of death keats died a very, very young man, one of the most tragic stories in the book, and keats was frozen. He was lost, and he had an hour or two hour talk with coleridge walking in the park, came back and in a couple of months, wrote 5 or 6 of the greatest poems ever written, really the greatest poetry since Shakespeare. And everything that coleridge touched as a broken man, this drug addict, this hysteric, this guy who's marriage was miserable. Everything he touched became magic, just lit up and even Mary Shelley, I have a chapter on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She was a little girl in coleridge came over her house and recited the rhyme of the ancient Mariner, and if you look at Frankenstein, the novel Frankenstein's filled with coleridge. I mean, coleridge is all through it. So he just changed everybody. It's pretty dramatic. I mean, and this is what I'm saying is that this is a story that I was unfamiliar with. And I was an English major at Yale. And they didn't teach this stuff. They were like already into Foucault and the Derry da. And why don't you go blow your brains out before you read the next poem? You know, that level of depth of literary criticism. And I have to say that when you get into this and you understand how it happened, there's something really beautiful about it. I mean, you talk about its lyrical ballads, is that the name of the book that coleridge wrote with wordsworth with wordsworth. Talk about that. We just got 60 seconds, but talk about that book. I was an absolute revolutionary book that changed the course of English poetry and really invented a new way of looking at the world for a new generation. I mean, really people there were stories about people who had been massively depressed and then read this book and sort of came back and started to understand the world better. And it really was this collaboration of coleridge, this deep believer in Christianity, but at a very intellectual level and wordsworth, this guy searching for meaning. And what he did was he turned words with into a poet who could see in the smallest, most broken person could see something beautiful. And that's what wordsworth writes about in it, where coleridge writes about kind of Supernatural ideas that lead us back to God. We're going to, we're going to go to another break. We apologize for the breaks, but this is principally radio. We'll be.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"zander van" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Volks welcome back, I'm talking to Andrew clavin. Do you understand? I'm talking to Andrew clavin, he's written a book called the truth and beauty. It's an amazing book. It is at least brilliant, at least, brilliant. And it was just wonderful to read Andrew, I want to say, congratulations on really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you, obviously, said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster Joanne sees now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest and God bless him for doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned it. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Author Andrew Klavan and Eric Discuss 'The Truth and the Beauty'
"Volks welcome back, I'm talking to Andrew clavin. Do you understand? I'm talking to Andrew clavin, he's written a book called the truth and beauty. It's an amazing book. It is at least brilliant, at least, brilliant. And it was just wonderful to read Andrew, I want to say, congratulations on really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you, obviously, said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster Joanne sees now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest and God bless him for doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned it. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"zander van" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"As I say, I read the whole book yesterday. So it can't be that long. But it is just loaded with, I mean, we're going to go to a break, but just your bringing to life, characters with whom I had the most glancing familiarity like Samuel Taylor coleridge and keats and just to see them as human beings and that alone is a high recommendation to read the book. We'll be right back talking to Andrew clave in the book is the truth and beauty. Going to the end of life. Hey folks, if you listen to this program, of course, you've heard me talk at infinitum about my pillow and my friend Mike lindell. Well, Mike is just announced that you will receive one of his books and the book is next level insane. It is called what are the odds from crack addict to CEO. It's his story. You will receive it absolutely free with any purchase using the promo code Eric. Did you hear that? It would be a great time, by the way, to buy his warm and wonderful my slippers for a limited time. He's offering 50% off my slippers. We all wear them in my extended family, my slippers. Check it out. 50% off. Go to my pillow dot com. Click on the radio listeners square and use promo code Eric. You'll also get deep discounts on all my pillow products, including some overstock products such as individual towels, blankets, comforters and much more or call 809 7 8 30 57 that's 809 7 8 three O 5 7 to use the promo code, Eric. Volkswagen back, I'm talking to Andrew clavin. Do you understand I'm talking to Andrew clavin, he's written a book called the truth and beauty. It's an amazing book. It is at least brilliant, at least, brilliant. And it was just wonderful to read Andrew, I want to say, congratulations on really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you obviously said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster yells. He's now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest. And God bless him. For doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems. I'm really glad you bring this up because the whole thing was, I know that people don't read poetry. Poetry is dead. The art of poetry is for people like me who study English literature and who love English literature, but most people don't read it. And I didn't want you to have to know poetry or even like it to get into what I was saying. And these people lived some of the most interesting lives in literary history. There were 6 of them greatest poets who have ever lived living on the island, the British island at the same time. They were geniuses. They were drug addicts. They were scoundrels. They were brilliant. They fought with each other. They yelled at each other. I mean, this book starts with a wild drunken party. They were all at the end. The whole books have been written about this party. So I just wanted to get you into their minds so that you could see that what they were doing, this challenge of rebuilding the consciousness of human beings for the modern age was a dramatic human challenge taken on by dramatic humans. And the thing about intellectual life when it's lived at that level is it's just as exciting as being an explorer or being a soldier or any of the things that we accept. This is more dangerous. When I look in some ways that are destroyed, when you think of a Byron Mary Shelley, it's an interesting thing because we have seen it on our time. You parallel this era of the romantics from a little bit over 200 years ago with the modern era and the 60s. And we all see lives that have been destroyed, the abortions, the broken hearts, that just the drug deaths, right? It's very similar what you're writing about. I mean, when you talk about Byron's sister and all of this incredible, I mean, it's kind of funny because it is by renes. The romantic poet, the byronic hero, living for himself. It's kind of like a nietzschean ubermensch before Nietzsche, right? Just breaking all the rules and destroying humans in his wake, just leaving humans in his wake. But there's so many of these characters and then some of them are really good people. I mean, when you look at wordsworth, keats. I mean, it's just, you know, I wish somebody would do a mini series a streaming series for Amazon Prime or something because these are amazing stories. And I know a number of these stories have been told here and there. But let's just talk about coleridge, for example. I really knew nothing about coleridge. And you, I mean, is there anybody funnier, more entertaining, more crazy, amazing, beautiful than Samuel coleridge? We should all know who he is, and you bring him to life. Yeah, and there are long paragraphs written about how much he talked. Just people were absolutely stunned by the wave of conversation that came off. And every single one of them was changed and when he met wordsworth when he first really got friendly with wordsworth, wordsworth was lost. You know, he was kind of a coleridge called him a semi atheist. He didn't know how to deal with the failure of the French Revolution. He had been a radical and now all his radical dreams were gone. He didn't have any money, you didn't know where he was going after a year of listening to coleridge pounding with talk. He became the greatest poet of his generation. And it was clearly from a collaboration with poet with coleridge that he had this vision of the human mind as being in collaboration essentially with God as he called it with the one great mind and that your life is a part of creation. Your life is continued creation. That was coleridge's idea that became wordsworth's idea. When he met keats, keats was on the verge of death, he died a very, very young man, one of the most tragic stories in the book, and keats was frozen. He was lost, and he had an hour or two hour talk with coleridge walking in the park, came back and in a couple of months, wrote 5 or 6 of the greatest poems ever written, really the greatest poetry since Shakespeare. And everything that coleridge touched as a broken man, this drug addict, this hysteric, this guy was marriage, was miserable. Everything he touched became magic, just lit up, and even Mary Shelley, I have a chapter on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She was a little girl in coleridge came over her house and recited the rhyme of the ancient Mariner, and if you look at Frankenstein, the novel Frankenstein's filled with coleridge. I mean, coleridge is all through it. So he just changed everybody. It's pretty dramatic. I mean, and this is what I'm saying is that this is a story that I was unfamiliar with. And I was an English major at Yale. And they didn't teach this stuff. They were already into Foucault and derrida. And one of all your brains out before you read the next poem, you know, that level of depth of literary criticism. And I have to say that when you get into this and you understand how it happened, there's something really beautiful about it. I mean, you talk about its lyrical ballads. Is that the name of the book that coleridge wrote with wordsworth with wordsworth? Talk about that. We just got 60 seconds, but talk about that book. I was an absolute revolutionary book that changed the course of English poetry and really invented a new way of looking at the world for a new generation. I mean, people there were stories about people who had been massively depressed and then read this book and sort of came back and started to understand the world better. And it really was this collaboration of coleridge, this deep believer in Christianity, but at a very intellectual level. And wordsworth, this guy searching for meaning. And what he did was he turned words with into a poet who could see in the smallest, most broken person could see something beautiful. And that's what wordsworth writes about in it, where coleridge writes about kind of Supernatural ideas that lead us back to God. We're going to, we're going to go to another break. We apologize for the breaks, but this is principally radio. We'll be right back talking to Andrew clavin, the book, which is out today, and which I recommend very highly. It's called the truth and beauty..