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October 2018

October 23, 2018

Advice for a Single Woman Who Is Looking for a Masculine Man

I have known a number of unhappy single Christian women over the years. Many of...

July 2018

July 09, 2018

Do Children Matter?

Today I recommend to you a book for new parents, and maybe not so new...

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 08, 2018

How Big Is Too Big?

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

March 2018

March 14, 2018

The Family that Votes Together Stays Together

Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton often says more than she means to say. Such was the...

December 2017

December 07, 2017

Broken Homes, Scientology, Fatherhood, and Writing! (The Chris Craft Show)

What do all these things have in common: broken home, Scientology, fatherhood, and writing? Answer:...

July 2017

July 14, 2017

How to Make Sure Your Highly Educated Daughter Doesn’t Have to Freeze Her Eggs

You may not like my advice. But if you have better advice, there are a...

July 07, 2017

The Natural Family Lives in Christ

People that hate the traditional family--you know, the natural family, the one instituted through the...

July 05, 2017

Marriage Is the End of the World

There is a deep and unalterable connection between this world and the next. And that...

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 23, 2017

How do you “make a culture”?

A few years back there was a flash of enthusiasm among people who read books...

June 16, 2017

How Social Security Feeds on Children and Itself

I've been working my way through a marvelous book by my friend Allan C. Carlson...

June 06, 2017

Flannery O’Connor and the Meaning of the World

I've been reading essays from Flannery O'Connor's occasional prose. Since I write fiction, I'm interested...

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 31, 2017

Against the Recreational Household, Part 4: Signs of Hope

Here I am again with another ramble. This is the fourth in what I hope...

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 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 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 20, 2017

Re-enchanting Male & Female

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

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 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 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 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...