Confessing Evangelical

Rick Ritchie (a frequent contributor to Modern Reformation) has set up a new online magazine called Old Solar, "a review of culture from a Lutheran perspective". Some good stuff, including fellow MR-er Rod Rosenbladt on "Learning to Think Theologically" (can't link to this, due to very weird URL), Charlie Mallie on Traditions: Cling to Them or Drop Them?, and Mark Pierson on The Da Vinci Code ("The Da Vinci Code is one of the most preposterous books I’ve ever read. No, wait – let me correct that statement: It is THE most preposterous book I’ve ever read.").

Oh, and some Brit or other.

While "Old Solar does not have a mission statement, because we think mission statements are dumb", as the home page puts it, the "Welcome to Old Solar" item gives a little more detail on the purpose of the site:

Old Solar magazine is named after the language of the unfallen races in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy. We adopted the name not because we imagine our conversation to be unfallen, but because the name does convey some ideas that represent our purpose well: communication and a longing for a lost world.

This lost world is not an identifiable Golden Age from the past that we could return to by going back fifty or five-hundred years. It is a Golden Vision of what the peculiar strengths of past ages would look like combined together. Our cultural criticism may not directly reference this vision at all times, but it will always be in the background. As we are not a political movement, it may be that a Golden Vision is all we have to offer. Yet that should be a good enough reason to have a magazine.

If you like it, let me know what you think. If you don't, let Rick know instead. :-)