Come to the Feast

Last year, I criticized this event pretty harshly, simply based on the name and speaker lineup. I enumerated a number of problems which can best be summed up in saying that it was an exercise in feminism, teach teaching women to be boss babes instead of biblical women - i.e., home-focused, gentle and quiet, etc. At that time, a number of people rebuked me, pointing out that the conference was very heavily focused on motherhood, marriage, and the domestic arts. I listened to s

Security camera footage captured a man ferociously beating a woman- and then quickly receiving a solid right from an onlooker who led an entire swarm of bystanders in driving the man out of the building. As the prevalence- or at least the awareness- of violence in modern Western society grows, it is becoming more and more urgent that American Christian men rediscover the masculine penchant for delivering a beat-down. Sadly, decades of ecclesiastical effeminacy have left many

When I was younger, I thought that Jane Austen’s stories were little more than soap operas- Hallmark-style cotton candy drama. This may in part be due to the fact that my primary exposure was through the Keira Knightley version of Pride and Prejudice, which- well, which was pretty much exactly that. But, after marriage, my wife introduced me to some of the more faithful adaptations of Austen’s works, and I have had the sense and sensibility to be persuaded not to judge her wo