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to others as well, others well-being to area and by contrast, if instead you think as the post-calvinists did that people have free will and choice to use another phrase of the day that they are free moral agents, morally conscious as well, then they are able to cooperate with god in achieving their own salvation, cooperate is a word introduced into this discussion by john tillotson who was the first archbishop of canterbury appointed by william and mary at the glorious revolution in 1688 and extending back to the secular realm, people's human choices, actions, agency could also improve their own and others' economic condition. and then finally in terms of human purpose, if you believe that there is no religious value attached to human happiness then it's a good question why the world would be structured so as to foster human well-being and by contrast if you thought that human happiness was part of the divinely intended purpose for humans on earth, then of course it follows that we have the ability to lead a moral life and achieve our salvation. that would just be a part of the divine be

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> it doesn't have to be a hyper future like the amish and catholics having 12 kids and as a let calvinists to inherit the country maybe some of that happens but people are more secular or less religious still figuring to communities that work in the way other modes don't. that is the optimism decadence can last forever because people are not just content in dystopia the future belongs to the people who form stable communities and families. at some point it has to turn over to something more humane. we are all subjugated by the people's republic of china. >> . >> just building on your mark ship now, arguing social liberalism isn't responsive to the crises of the day loneliness and declining birth rates that this that speaks to the issues. they seem intent on the excess of race and gender. >> that's a really good question i've been thinking about how to write a column about that question. right now social conservative is him mostly exist as the bulwark against certain ways that social liberalism is inclined to make those problems worse. i mentioned drug legalization even polyamory like there

such great drama and you also a kind of drama queen in your personal life and i've been leaving calvinist as is to school so that i wouldn't say that i love drama it's been your month i like to have time for myself and often i find myself running late because i still had something to do here or there somewhere another us and it is tabu. i'm able to switch between my professional and private life very easily and. soon as the performance is over i feel totally free and that helps me come down from the high born of all this and say that of all the opera singers i'm one of the less complicated once i did open sing on these keep to deny. this is also hell his friend and former teacher helmut do each sees it as a pianist and professor who's known caliph month fullest 30 years. as i have often admired him he has incredible discipline. he's invited by friends who've bought a really rare and excellent wine just for him he'll apologize and say that he can't drink because he's singing the next day. and he really won't. be someone who when he has a certain job to do it will stick by the rules he set

it's a calvinistically informed document., if any element of the republic had total power, we were most likely to abuse it. as winston churchill said, you can count on the americans to do the right thing after we have exhausted every other possibility. so we've always proven, i think, that insight right. what john lewis and reverend sharpton knows this better than i do -- what he believed was that patient, brave, nonviolent witness was the best means to redemption. that if he and his colleagues, ella baker and rosa parks and jose williams and the e numerable host of others whose names we don't know, but who made the best of america possible, if they would stand nonviolently, peacefully as sen tenials and lanterns for the country, for other people, to actually do what we said we wanted to do and be what we say we want to be. and that's closing the gap between a profession and the principles of the declaration of independence that we're all created equal, and the practice of american life for 400 years which has been not necess

i remembered his old clingy work shirts, his laughter come his country voice, his calvinist or hands and the stupak and i felt i could hear them say my name the way he used to. it's a hard moment to explain even a because in the moment it almost felt as if i'd been visited by a ghost, a presence never seen but intensely felt. i've often wondered whether russell kirk the master of the stories might have convinced me that it did indeed feel the presence of a ghost. but regardless i did feel his joy and is left in that moment. as i thought about him that day i realized that everything i am and have achieved is -- to his determination to bless future generations of his family and that small farm community. i begin to ask myself that they whether i might own something to the past and the place because of grandpa dad's life and his firstfruits. and so "uprooted" came to be. it is the result of the years of study in interviews and reading that followed that job. the book has some personal notes that i consider the role of nostalgia and homesickness complaint in connecting us to the past int