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Esolen’s 20 Rules for Whom to Marry

This is fun and, I think, hits the mark. Read them and add some of your own. They’re, of course, not hard and fast, not of the “shall” but perhaps more of the “may” rubrics. So here are Anthony Esolen’s 20 Rules for whom to marry. He posted them on Touchstone’s blog, Mere Comments.
1. Don’t [...]

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Reclaiming Masculinity

Months ago, I wrote about masculinity and femininity. Recently, I read an interview that ZENIT conducted with Anthony Esolen on the topic of “Finding the Masculine Genius.” There were a couple striking points that we, as Lutherans and for unknown reasons, have not discussed. The first addresses Esolen’s understanding of what the terms masculinity [...]

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Music and the Church’s Culture

Anthony Esolen has done it again. His latest blog post is on how the world has lost its soul, its culture, because it has lost in its music any resemblance or building up on the music of the past. Esolen defines culture as that which you have when “you cultivate those beliefs, customs, celebrations, and [...]

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Masculinity and Femininity: What does this mean?

Here is another insightful post from Anthony Esolen over at Touchstone’s blog Mere Comments. Esolen is one of the great defenders and saviors of masculinity in our culture. He constantly maintains the premise that men and women are different and this is good, as our God has told us in [...]

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