What is Love? Love is work, or a working out, or a manifesting of benevolent intent and action, which is accompanied by a strong sense of care. Love manifests differently depending on the object of that love. One does not love their parents as they do their wife. One does not love their children as…
“Western civilization. It’s been around for a while, but suddenly everybody is talking about it. Some are anxious to save it; others are happy to see it go. But what exactly is Western civilization? Is it the great cathedrals of Europe or the Nazi concentration camps? Is it the freedoms secured in the US Constitution…
Rape, murder, war—they all have one thing in common: Men. Aggression, violence, ambition unchecked by conscience—all the stuff of “toxic masculinity,” right? And, the solution is obvious: Make men less toxic. Make men less masculine. Make men more like women. But I’m here to tell you that this way of thinking is not only wrong,…
What ever happened to letting “boys be boys?” Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun. In another, a teacher was so alarmed by a picture drawn by a student (of a sword fight), that the boy’s parents were summoned in for a…
Maybe we’re rushing into marriage because it’s finally available to us. But for queer women, it might be because we’re wired that way. In Lesbian Love Addiction, Lauren D. Costine suggests women find comfort in relationships because once we find a connection, we feel a rush of dopamine and oxytocin. (Literally all the feels.)“Men don’t…
If farmland is plowed (especially with fertilizer laid down)… by four, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, or more individual farmers (let alone several toiling around the same time), but none are willing to buy the land (choosing instead to abandon it not long after the tilling begins), there is either something seriously wrong with the land,…
“Divorce is a problem in the United States. But there are personal factors that make you more or less likely to get divorced, and you can control them.” [Note: Or many of them at least]. Click Why Your Risk For Divorce Is Probably A Lot Lower Than You Think for the rest of the article
Note: you can hate the messenger (i.e. the Heritage Foundation), and attempt to kill the message (that religion and traditional morality has very positive effects in the social and personal lives of adherents), but facts are facts… ignore them at your own peril, your spouse’s peril, and the peril of your children. The studies abound;…
Spiritual Wrestlings 