weddedness

Answerability for the culture can generate obsessional confrontation, something like paranoia about cultural and moral decline and a weddedness to the luxuries of a permanent minority position which allows criticism without practical engagement.

University of Chichester, Bishop George Bell lecture 2008

We just celebrated our third year of weddedness, go us!

Archive 2008-03-01 jek-a-go-go 2008

The parson (and parsons were not lacking in Pentonville) was not so insidiously repellent as the blue-cheeked, blue-chinned Passy priest; but he was by no means to me a picturesque or sympathetic apparition, with his weddedness, his whiskers, his black trousers, his frock-coat, his tall hat, his little white tie, his consciousness of being a

Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865

It groks what's wrong wtih Evangelicalism (an over-weddedness to the GOP and right wing culture war stuff, a lingering anti-Catholicism) but is not at all sure what's right and full of mushy relativism, therapeutic moralistic deism, and without an intellectual center (except for a few hardcore TRVE CALVINISTS who like their Christianity in diagram form and have not patience whatsoever with mystery or matters of the heart).

Catholic and Enjoying It! 2009