Category: Men & Women

“The Christian church is there to remind people, young men included and perhaps even first and foremost, that they have a woman to find, a garden to walk in, a family to nurture, an ark to build, a land to conquer, a ladder to heaven to build, and the utter, terrible catastrophe of life to…

THIS SERIES OF BLOG POSTS IS TAKEN FROM MY 2015  ESSAY, “AMERICA’S WAR ON GOD AND SEXUAL ORTHODOXY.” In these blog posts, I will interact quite a bit with natural law, not because I believe natural law theory as such holds the answers to what ails our nation (Christ alone is our last, best, and only…

This is an interpretive paraphrase/rewriting of 1 Corinthians 7:1-9, a key text on marital sexuality. If Paul had elaborated and explained himself more fully in these verses, I think he would have said something like this: [1] You wrote to me, “It is good for a man to not touch – that is, to not…

These notes for young men were actually written for my son many years ago. I might say a few things differently today. But I think many young men could still find them helpful so I’m publishing them on the blog. A while back, I heard a talk from a pastor on “Practical Manhood” aimed at…

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may…

“Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government, etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes? …The homemaker’s job is one for which all others exist.” — C.S. Lewis “If you want to change the world,…

There are two ingredients every marriage needs if it is to age like fine wine rather than spoiled milk: 1. Godliness 2. Polarity By godliness, I mean maturing Christian faithfulness, as seen in the fruit of the Spirit. By polarity, I mean an appreciation of the differences between men and women, and thus well-defined roles…

Some questions spurred by recent cultural events: 1. Setting aside the criteria of commitment to the Constitution, competence, and wisdom, Joe Biden said he would only nominate a black woman for the Supreme Court vacancy. This is identity politics to the extreme. But now the identity of Biden’s pick is in doubt. That nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson,…