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Strong Men Will Save The American Church

A small Tennessee conference exposed how comfortable we have become with a Church that will not fight.

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Conservative Christians often say that the left and the culture hate the church, pointing to fierce opposition to Christian positions on abortion, so-called same-sex marriage, and the transgender lie. That is only half the story. The left loves the church when it is co-opted for leftist ends. The screeching starts when the church grows a backbone. That is what happened after a small-town conference in Tennessee.

On September 26, Kairos Christian Alliance hosted its first annual Muscular Christianity Conference in Cookeville, Tennessee. Featuring speakers such as Dr. David Schrock of Christ Over All, Offensive Christianity author J. Chase Davis, and The Federalist’s very own Sean Davis, the gathering was not a gym session or a branding exercise. It treated the church as a public institution that must form men with spines, name the sins of the age, and refuse to surrender the public square. I was there as one of the speakers.

In response, jeers and insults poured in from the left and even from some who still call themselves conservative. Critics called the conference “a safe space for men who think empathy lowers testosterone” and the “Department of Unintentional Satire.” Even Erick Erickson, who still claims the conservative label, reduced the whole thing to a joke and asked for the speakers’ “deadlift weights.”

These critics are caught off guard by a church that names sin and enters the public square as the problem. A weak and winsome church would be welcomed, flattered, and left alone.

They prefer the church to remain spiritual so long as it stays private and therapeutically nice. They want a church that confuses niceness with love and baptizes the sexual revolution, mass migration, the erasure of sex, and the hollowing out of the family.

A church full of “men with chests,” as C. S. Lewis put it, is a threat. The church that recovers its spine on abortion, marriage, children,........

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