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May 2017

May 18, 2017

Against the Recreational Household, preliminary thoughts, Part 1

Once upon a time the economy lived at home. Households were for work and the...

May 15, 2017

About That Article I Wrote for National Review

I had something of a ride last week following the publication of something I wrote...

May 08, 2017

Why I don’t read most books for men written by evangelicals

Most books for men conform to the expectations of the modern world.

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Liberalism & the Curse of Debt-Free Living

Liberalism is only honest when men spontaneously generate. Any other way of coming into being...

April 20, 2017

Re-enchanting Male & Female

We're in a bad way, but we may be coming to the end of it....

April 11, 2017

The Way of Men: Nietzsche or Aristotle?

When I was in graduate school (Harvard Divinity School) one of my professors put the...

April 06, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Infant Baptism

Largely it is axiomatic among libertarians that human institutions are fictions and only individuals are...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Honest Work in a Virtual World, Thoughts on Working with Your Hands

I learned how to frame when I was in seminary. What I mean by "frame"...

March 28, 2017

Man of the House: Why Did I Write It?

I'm pleased to announce that my latest nonfiction book is available for preorder from my...

March 24, 2017

Return to Fruitfulness, that’s an Order

By their fruits you shall know them. Matthew 7:16 The hermeneutics of suspicion have made...

March 17, 2017

Why the cultural mandate comes first

Genesis 1:26-28 (ESV) 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have...

March 15, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Father Abraham

The spirit of Marcion is with us to the present day. Marcion you may recall...

March 07, 2017

Bombadil at Home

When it comes to what the Bible means by taking dominion Tom Bombadil comes to...

March 02, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Family as Image of the Covenant

We live in a world where the givens of family life no longer can be...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Freedom: I don’t think it means what you think it means

One of the conceptual blocks I ran into as a young convert was the notion...

February 25, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Priestly Fatherhood

Christian family-based religious life is so dissimilar to the practices of biblical patriarchs there are...

February 16, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Corporate Personality

I have long suspected that the real reason American evangelicals are so ignorant about the...

February 14, 2017

Masculinity and the Church (I am interviewed by Radio Free Christendom)

I am pleased to present a podcast of Radio Free Christendom in which I...

February 10, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Carrier of the Covenant

Sometimes you learn the importance of something because you have it and can't imagine life...

February 07, 2017

Deconstructing Feminized Fatherhood

We must live our lives in a larger structure of meaning than we can build...

February 02, 2017

Real Men Don’t Virtue Signal

Virtue signaling is the new self-righteousness. And self-righteousness is for sissies. Every once in a...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Family that Stays Together Can Pray Together

That little reversal in the title of this post is intended to shake you out...

January 26, 2017

Feminism, the Women’s March, and Aesthetics

The other day I stumbled across a post by a fellow Patheos blogger entitled, The...

January 24, 2017

I Am Weary of the World-Weariness of the Unaccomplished

The best way to avoid disappointment is to not even try. Life is struggle. Jacob...

January 17, 2017

Androphobia Is a Real Thing: And Many Pastors Suffer From It

If you're afraid of your plumber you've got a real problem. Now I'm assuming your...

January 10, 2017

Why I Don’t Hit Girls

I have a little sister, and like many children who grow frustrated with tagalong siblings,...

January 06, 2017

I Shall Return!

I'm pleased to announce that I've finally gotten my manuscript in to the publisher for...

December 2016

December 21, 2016

The Church Impotent–the transitional paragraph

My last post noted that I'm working my way through Leon Podle's fine book, The...

December 14, 2016

Why Western Christianity is Effeminate, Part 1

I'm in the midst of a flurry of last minute edits to my manuscript, Man...

December 07, 2016

Families: No Room in the Church-Inn

I just finished reading a book that I've been commissioned to review for Touchstone Magazine....

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