Women don’t belong in combat (5 min)

That world won’t acknowledge that it is Who made us, and in Whose Image we are made (Gen. 9:6), that makes us valuable. So, instead, the world evaluates people on the basis of what a person might have, or how they look, or what they can do. All of these other evaluations cause troubles, especially the last. An abilities-based assessment is what’s behind both dehumanizing the unborn, because they can’t yet do many of the things the already born can do, and dehumanizing the elderly and disabled because they can’t do what the young and more able-bodied can.

Valuing people on the basis of what they can do is also what’s been behind the push for women in combat roles. If you are what you can do, then we would be forced to conclude that women aren’t the equal of men if there is anything men can do that women can’t. So, in rejecting God, the world also has to reject the reality that men are stronger and make more capable soldiers. The world puts on blinders, because the only alternatives are equally unattractive to them: either to believe that men are better than women, or to believe that our worth is found in God and not in ourselves or anything we can do.

Another problem with the minimum wage

It’s said a person will judge himself by his intent – “It doesn’t matter how it went, after all, I meant well” – and judge others by their actions… or, in other words, by whether it actually went well. The minimum wage is an example, implemented in the name of helping the poor, and therefore judged by its implementers to be a success, no matter what results.

But with the newly elected New York mayor having campaigned on a push for a $30 minimum wage, it doesn’t take much imagination to see the harm that could result, with all sorts of businesses closing because they can’t afford to pay those wages. Then, instead of the poorest getting paid more, you have the poorest getting fired.

Now a new study finds that the harm the minimum wage causes hurts blacks more. This is a US study, and the racial aspect doesn’t translate directly to Canada. But the fact that the minimum wage hurts the most vulnerable certainly does.

The woke mob doesn’t forgive, but God does

Malcolm Gladwell became one of the first big names to admit peer pressure cowed him into saying guys in dresses should be able to compete against women. His admission – both to being cowed, and owning up to it now – are remarkable in a culture in which forgiveness is in low supply.

A whole list of reasons to consider marrying younger

Tim Challies with a bunch of benefits that come with marrying younger.

On marital nakedness

What the world cheapens, God’s people can enjoy as He intended.

Nick Fuentes: a name your kids may know (15 min).

Nick Fuentes is big in the US, and probably leaking across the border, so if your kids don’t know about him yet, they may soon. Whether or not you’ve heard of him, there’s a reason to watch this video – Fuentes’ rise is an object lesson in how taking a strong stand against what’s wrong can be both attractive and still really, really evil. Too many think we can find the the truth simply by pushing back against the lies of the Left. But that forgets that there is another side of the horse to fall off of. So, for example, feminists who say motherhood is slavery are calling good evil, but when Fuentes hits back at feminists by degrading women, he’s just turning his followers in a different evil direction. So Truth isn’t found by rejecting error but by turning towards Christ.

While Fuentes says he is Christian, he wears his “faith” like an outfit, to be put on or taken off whenever it suits. Maybe we can use this video with our kids to show how being loud while professing “Lord, Lord” (Matt. 7:21-23) can be a very different thing than being bold in our submission to the LORD (Matt. 10:32-33).

The one concern I’ll offer with the video below, is that it includes, near the end, depictions of Christ as He has been portrayed by actors through the years, including some quite bloody, graphic portrayals.. I’d have loved if they’d steered clear of visually depicting Jesus (my concern is the 2nd Commandment), but share this anyways because of the insight offered.