Deus Misereatur

  Just this morning The Atlantic posted an article that gives signs of hope, “Why Marriage Survives.” It will be printed in their September 2025 issue. The writer, Brad Wilcox, shows there is evidence that traditional one-man-one-woman marriage is making a comeback. In fact, rather “quietly, the post-’60s family revolution appears to have ended. Divorce is down and the share of children in two-parent families is up. Marriage as a social institution is showing new strength…” [1] Besides the encouragement of the article, what caught my attention was “the post-’60s family revolution.” That’s exactly what Nathanael Blake addresses in his newly published, 272-page paperback, “Victims of the Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All.” Blake is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and contributor to several publications. Blake’s contention is that the sexual revolution of the 1960s sold us a bill of goods, and now, three generations into it, the walking wounded are all ...

  (Updated 30 July 2025) Zachary Garris is pastor of Bryce Ave Presbyterian Church (PCA) in White Rock, New Mexico. In 2020 he published the 312-page paperback, "Masculine Christianity" with Reformation Zion Publishing. The following is something of a review. To begin, I appreciate what seems to be Garris’s intent – the desire to confirm that men are to be men (a good thing) and women are to be women (a good thing), and reaffirm men taking leadership in their homes and churches, etc. It’s good for women to be women and men to be men. With this, I deeply appreciate his push against pornography and men seeking to ‘conquer’ women by means of sex (164-5).   Second, our denomination (the Presbyterian Church in America) is complementarian, and complementarianism is a spectrum. On one side is the egalitarian, and if you fly off at that end you’ll be with the egalitarian-ists. The other side is patriarchal, and if you fly off that end you’ll be with the patriarchal-ists. The "is...

In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain, for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart; if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” O Lord our refuge, the shelter in the midst of the storm, for those who are taunted and teased by their afflictions, ailments, troubles or tears to “flee like a bird to your mountain,” we pray you enfold them in your compassion and fill them with courage that they may rejoice in your goodness. For those being aimed at by the bow of the wicked, shot at in the dark and dimness, we pray you shield them from the fiery darts, and screen them from slander and spite. For those who are rocking and reeling and feeling as if the bottom is falling out, may they find in you their sure foundation and be built up in sturdy strength. The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelid...