Let me begin this letters installment with an expression of regret. Because I was out of the country last week and consequently did not post any letters, and because, upon my return, I have been ...
A Better Job Meeting the Wrong Standard
“For decades, we have been placing effeminate girly men in the pulpit, and this is one of the things that has given the progressive argument so much force. How can you demand femininity in the pulpit, and then argue with the fact that women would do a better job at that than our evangelical beta males do? And they would, too.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 93
Reactionaries and Their Discontents
Introduction: In times of turbulent churn, one of the things you can usually anticipate is even more turbulence, especially from young men. Their reactions are often predictable, and therefore rational in one sense, while their selected scapegoat targets, upon which they vent, are often arbitrary and capricious. In other words, you can look at the …
Outlawing Good Men
“A return to sanity will be a return to an unapologetic acceptance of the fact that men are of necessity going to be dominant. They only choice we have as a society is between whether the dominance is going to be constructive or destructive. Because the poobahs in charge have spent the last generation or so outlawing every form of constructive male dominance they can identify, we are now discovering that—far from empowering women—they have actually empowered destructive male dominance. Put another way, when constructive male dominance is outlawed, only outlaws will have male dominance.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 72-73
Men Guarding Against Men
“Women really do need to be protected and guarded from men. They need this because there really is a thing called toxic masculinity. But the only ones who are capable of protecting women from men are the men. The only thing capable of protecting women from toxic masculinity is masculinity.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 72
The Real Toxicity
“When you are trying to describe bio-males competing against women in women’s sports, that elusive phrase you are looking for is #ToxicMasculinity.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 70
Letters to Make Us Pause and Reflect
Letter to the Editor: Red Dress ReductivismThat was funny, cheeky, and entirely appropriate. It would be interesting to learn whether those two women were also wearing blue stockings… ...
Put On Your Red Dress, Baby
This last Lord’s Day, I had the very great privilege of preaching at our Christ Church DC church plant. The folks there are wonderful, hard working, and highly organized. This promises to be a very fruitful work indeed. This venture was plainly prompted by the Lord, and was clearly an answer to the prayers of …
How to Bonk Heads With Yourself
Introduction: This next chapter of Disarming Leviathan continues to complain that Christian nationalists are all about picking up the sword in order to attain ungodly power and advance their ...
Trusting God in a Hard Providence
Introduction : We live in a world where rough things happen. Despite all our advances in technology, everyone reading this will still at some point die. We still get sick. We still have financial ...