{"id":1033,"date":"2018-04-12T20:31:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T00:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2019-03-24T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T11:17:12","slug":"issues-etc-the-federalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/issues-etc-the-federalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues Etc. &#038; The Federalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t read it yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/04\/09\/want-men-church-stop-treating-contempt\/\">my latest piece at The Federalist<\/a> is about the growing absence of men from Western churches in light of the contempt that they often find there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When Christians ponder the ongoing departure of men from the church, we have an unfortunate tendency to sound like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/03\/12\/backwards-hillary-clinton-still-has-no-clue-why-she-lost\/\">Hillary Clinton pondering her failed presidential campaign<\/a>. It\u2019s understandable that Americans would vote against a candidate who holds them in such thinly veiled contempt. It should be just as understandable that men would avoid organizations that are obliviously contemptuous of males.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/04\/09\/want-men-church-stop-treating-contempt\/\">read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s leaving you wanting more, you are in luck.\u00a0 I had the opportunity to talk about the article on <a href=\"http:\/\/issuesetc.org\/\">Issues Etc.<\/a> this afternoon.\u00a0 You can listen to the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/issuesetc.org\/2018\/04\/12\/1021-the-churchs-contempt-for-men-matthew-cochran-4-12-18\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t read it yet, my latest piece at The Federalist is about the growing absence of men from Western churches in light of the contempt that they often find there. 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