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

Because we have forsaken the Word of God in our land, American culture has tried in vain to find a good standard for what constitutes morality when it comes to sex. One of the most popular suggestions is that the answer is simply a morality based on consent. One of the poisonous fruits that this has borne is a hyper-focus on and over-analysis of what constitutes “consent.” From a Biblical perspective, God’s design for sex is pretty simple. No sex until marriage, and then at m

In which I seek to articulate a Biblical and wise Patriarchy regarding these two topics without erring to the right or to the left. CONSERVATIVE FEMALE INFLUENCERS I am here fleshing out "the other side" of the conversation in my recent post about Allie Beth Stuckey. A good litmus test for conservative female influencers when it comes to their trajectory is this: Are they more interested in telling young women that they do not have to get married, have children, and keep hou

Please note that this thread is a series of thoughts which I hope will be helpful and Biblically-based. This is not a substitute for pastoral counseling, and this topic is so complicated that there is absolutely no way that I could cover every possibility in this thread. Please take this only for what it is, compare it to Scripture, and get godly advice from people who know you. Also, I would like to make clear that this post is assuming a woman who is chronically denying her

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