Author Archives: Matt

About Matt

Software engineer by trade; lay theologian by nature; Lutheran by grace.

St. George and the Art of Dragonslaying

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Matt

About a year ago, I wrote about a very bad children’s book, The Sunflower Sword. It was a remarkably anti-masculine story, written to take little boys’ natural desire to pick up pretend swords & battle pretend dragons and neuter it … Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Youth, Culture, Family, Tradition | 2 Comments

Judges, Submit to Your Husbands?

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Matt

I checked yesterday to see whether “wives submit to your husbands” was still the most hated Bible verse in America. It is. The feedback was mostly like vampires reacting to a cross. I write on some pretty controversial topics on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Family, Feminism | 20 Comments

It’s Time For Americans to Get Over Their Phobia of Feminine Submission

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Matt

Consider what feminine equality has offered to American couples: series of empty and short relationships comprised of hookups; marriages typified by divorce over even trivial conflicts; a war between the sexes which is becoming more savage and hurtful all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Family, Feminism | 35 Comments

The Insidious Defense of Cuties

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Matt

The Federalist doesn’t have a comments section anymore, so I probably won’t be doing my usual followup to criticism of my latest piece on the Cuties travesty.  Nevertheless, Nathan Rinne alerted me to a Quillete article by Allan Stratton defending the film … Continue reading →

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Cuties Reminds Us Why Society Needs a Well-Trained Sense of Disgust

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Matt

I have a new piece up at the Federalist today on that Cuties abomination and the nature of disgust: It’s only natural to react to this with exactly the kind of outrage that Netflix is currently reaping. Sexually exploiting children … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Family, Tradition | 2 Comments

When Resisting Government is our Vocation

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Matt

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist … Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Nationalism, Ethics, Politics, Theology, Vocation | 6 Comments

The Next Police?

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Matt

Murder and mayhem may only be 10% of what Antifa and BLM protesters do, but perhaps they’re starting to be held accountable for some of it. Michael Reinoehl, the Antifa terrorist who murdered a Trump supporter in Portland was shot to … Continue reading →

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Marxism is the Demonic Inverse of Family

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Matt

Unlike God, Satan cannot actually create.  Rather, the devil must always depend on the very One against whom he rebels even for his rebellion.  His every scheme rests on taking a good thing that God created and then removing it … Continue reading →

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Rabid Minds

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Matt

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full … Continue reading →

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Racism, Anti-Racism, and Sin

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Matt

As American cities burn amid riots and communist activists carve out micro-states for themselves in the wake of George Floyd’s death, we’ve also borne witness to a vast army of conservatives rising up to affirm the one core principle that … Continue reading →

Posted in Law, Musings, Politics, Theology | 12 Comments