The All-Male Christian Group Seeking a Resurrection in the Trump Era
Article here. Nothing scares so-called progressives and feminists more than men coming together in all-male groups of virtually any kind. One of the big successes feminists and so-called progressives have had, from their POV anyway, has been making men alienated from each other and afraid or gun-shy to form all-male groups of any kind for fear of being accused of "sexism"-- as feminists form as many all-female groups and events as they possibly can. If men are going to claim their power, they need unity which requires group-formation: men-only. What's good for the gander... Excerpt:
'It was an autumn Saturday in 1997, and Promise Keepers, a fast-growing conservative Christian men’s ministry that some warned was a covert political project, had gathered at its biggest event ever. “Why are we here?” Phillips, then the organization’s president, asked the hundreds of thousands of men in attendance. “Is it to demonstrate political might? No. Is it to demonstrate masculine strength? No. Is it to take back the nation by imposing our religious values on others? No.” The crowd roared with approval.
This weekend, a much smaller group of Promise Keepers gathered in Tulsa at a very different moment for evangelicals — with less decisive answers to those questions. Headed by a new young CEO, the group is leaning into partisan politics where it once eschewed them, and equipping men to do battle not only with their own spiritual weaknesses but also with a secular culture that speakers portrayed as uniquely hostile.'
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