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June 2018

June 13, 2018

Is This Evangelicalism’s Red-Pill Moment?

Generally speaking, evangelicals believe you can separate form from content. You can take meaning—what I...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

Manhood at First Things and Touchstone

Here are some sightings of yours truly at First Things and at Touchstone--a couple of...

May 08, 2018

How Big Is Too Big?

In the original Twilight Zone there is an episode entitled, The Last Night of a...

April 2018

April 06, 2018

A Young Man Reflects on Gun Violence Walkout Protest

What follows are the reflections of a high school senior on the national gun violence...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

The Dark Satanic Mills of Public Education Have Got to Go

I don't hate public schools because I am a Christian, I am a Christian, in...

February 06, 2018

Why Are Young People Turning to Socialism?

It's pretty simple to explain the turn to Socialism among the young. It's fear.

January 2018

January 08, 2018

What Is the Appeal of Jack Donovan for Many Young Christian Men?

If you know who Jack Donovan is, you don’t need me to explain what I’m...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

Sooner or Later You Run Out of Other People’s Kids

If you turn children into expensive hobbies don’t be surprised when people stop having them.

November 2017

November 02, 2017

Sloth and the Sexual Revolution

Sloth is the sin of the hopeless.

October 2017

October 23, 2017

Christianity is a Record-Keeping Religion

Naturally we'd all like to forget some things: our failures, our sins, our stupid remarks....

September 2017

September 15, 2017

How to Be a Gracious Pariah

Most of the time it is impossible to know why someone stops talking to you....

August 2017

August 03, 2017

Rev. Gore’s Altar Call: An Inconvenient Sequel Reviewed

It's propaganda, but there is more Elmer Gantry than Goebbels to it. Rev. Gore has...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Households Are Religious Institutions

The covenant with Abraham wasn't just a covenant with Abraham, it included all of his...

June 26, 2017

We are not social atoms. Churches must stop pretending we are.

You could say that the modern world reduced things to atoms, and when it came...

June 02, 2017

Against the Recreational Household: Part 5, Bringing Productive Property Back Home

Here I am again with yet another ramble. This is the fifth and final one...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Against the Recreational Household, Part 3: What Happened?

Here I am again, with you another of my rambles. This is the third...

May 22, 2017

Against the Recreational Household: Part 2, Cult as Cultivation

Throughout the world, in both the East and the West, households were once religious institutions....

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...

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...

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...

February 2017

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 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...