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LAF Editor | May 21, 2013
Another great one from The Art of Manliness, though I think it’s important to point out that we shouldn’t look to the state to fulfill the role of sheepdog. The role of human “sheepdogs” is almost exactly that of their canine counterparts. Like actual sheepdogs, they live among the flock – one of them, and [...]
LAF Editor | May 21, 2013
Last weekend, I was glad to participate in another wedding and to have the joy of giving a message. It was the wedding of Jordan Muela and Sarah Mendenhall in Indiana. As I was meditating on Ephesians 5:22-33 before the wedding, it struck me again that this passage is the most pro-female document ever drafted. [...]
LAF Editor | May 2, 2013
My six-year-old son follows me into the cool room; last bits of sunlight cascade onto the brown couch where we sit down. Looking down at my son I search for the right words to speak to him. I quietly pray, “God, help me not lose my temper. Help me talk to him gracefully and not [...]
LAF Editor | April 27, 2013
I want to tell you about a very special “miracle” —-it sure feels like one, but first I need to give you the backdrop. There are two very important things you need to know about my father’s lifetime battle to defend unborn babies. The first is his public record as a defender of life, and [...]
Jennie Chancey | April 13, 2013
Excellent: Where have all the gentlemen gone? One of the main functions of a culture commentator is to say things that should go without saying. So it is quite unremarkable to remark that there are few gentlemen left. When you think of a gentleman, do you conjure images of some tuxedoed dandy with jutting chin [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 20, 2013
From the gifted Ann Voskamp of A Holy Experience–the best thing I’ve read on this terrible crime: When you’re the mother of four sons, Steubenville is about us. Steubenville is about having a conversation with sons about hard things and asking you to do holy things. Because a Steubenville doesn’t begin with football and it doesn’t begin [...]
Jennifer McBride | July 23, 2012
In the movies the Dark Knight does not always save his lady, but in the Aurora theater the story unfolded differently. The male instinct to rescue and protect kicked in the way it does in less complicated superhero tales. At least three of the 12 victims of the shooting died because they were physically protecting the [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 24, 2012
As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic approaches, it’s important to remember the Christian worldview that motivated the majority of the men on board, who gave their lives that others might live. It’s not popular or politically correct to say it, but manhood that defends women and children should be celebrated and remembered. [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 2, 2012
This is a wonderfully upbeat and encouraging piece. Here’s to 85 years of marriage! Meet Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher of North Carolina. They have been married 85 years (86 in May) and hold the Guinness World Record for the longest marriage of a living couple and get this…. Zelmyra is 101 years old and Herbert [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 2, 2012
From Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet: As men sometimes complain, they have tended to be overlooked in the great exodus of women from the home into the workforce and other changes affecting women and motherhood during the past 50-60 years. However, higher rates of unemployment among men in a changing economy has recently drawn some attention [...]
Kelly Crawford | February 9, 2012
“…the family was not created to be first relationships and then everything else. The family was created to be an institution, and that institution has a purpose and function in God’s order for the things: to expand the dominion of God’s people over the whole world (Gen. 1:27-28). The purpose and function were first given to the man, and he [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 29, 2011
I was busy with a newborn baby when all the discussion over The Atlantic magazine’s November cover story started circulating, so I’m coming in on this a month late. However, I think it’s such an important topic that it deserves a post. Kate Bolick basically opines that “traditional” marriage is on its way out and [...]
Jennie Chancey | October 12, 2011
Working in an office full of women, many of whom are young, single gals, I hear all the time, “Where are all the good men out there?” Even in this post-feminist age of asserting independence from men and having both a career and a family, women still want their prince and these days, he can [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 13, 2011
Jill Stanek has an excellent post up from earlier this year about how women are penalized/criticized more for unwed pregnancy than men — and how that’s (ironically) a clear result of the sexual “freedom” pushed on women since the 1960s by the feminist movement: [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach] said that, today, there is a broken code [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 14, 2011
This is an absolutely excellent post from Brett and Kate McKay of The Art of Manliness (and applies as much to ladies as it does to gents): A gentleman treats others with dignity and respect, regardless of the kind of forum in which he participates. He treats life’s fellow travelers as he himself would like [...]
