However much we lean into arguments from nature about manhood & womanhood, if we don’t consider where there are arguments from nature about the necessity of *fathers* in that formation, and the implications for life at home, as for mothers, that’s something to think about. 5/5.

Meanwhile, I’m watching my young adult daughters slowly heal, and even thrive, as their stepdad gives them the nearness, attention and love that they’ve previously not known. Their experience of God as a loving father is being shaped by their experience of an earthly one. 4/5.

Speaking anecdotally, it was only in the death of my father last year that I was finally able to come to terms with the impact of his active spiritual and emotional neglect during adolescence on my concept of God as a father, and myself as a woman. 3/5.

Does similar research indicate the same about fathers? Has such research ever even been conducted? Do children *never* have particular neurobiological need for fatherly nearness, attention and love, perhaps during puberty and adolescence? 2/5.

Irony alert - this matricentric argument should be concerning to the quarter of conservative Christianity that fights here all day and night to defend the FatherhoodNotMotherhood of God, and patriarchal father rule. 1/5.

That being said, another trusted friend pointed me to this piece which was a part of the very same @CTmagazine issue. It's a true, good and beautiful antidote to whatevertheheck is going on in that other one, and I highly recommend it.

A trusted friend has called my attention to the mistake I made in my post about this article. The commandment being violated is the *3rd* (against taking God's name in vain), not the 2nd (against making idols). I regret the error, made while in a state of significant agitation.

Give Governor Newsom's Social Media Manager the Nobel Peace Prize.

RT @ChelsPat: Would appreciate urgent prayers for my youngest sister.

RT @sometimesalight: this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the gospel .

. This piece contains, *at minimum*, more astonishing violations of the 2nd commandment than I know what to do with. If this is, in fact, Christianity today, we are cooked to an everloving crisp.

RT @zugzwanged: He is not here. He is fiction.

RT @sometimesalight: Folks are focusing on Doug Wilson (et al)’s comments on women’s right to vote, but you should really be focusing on th….

RT @HashtagGriswold: So there was this garden

RT @OptimusGrind__: Fellas Barnes & Nobles has 3 books for $25 until the 11th. Take her on a book date.

Amazon just notified me that the copy of @KSPrior 's latest book that I pre-ordered in *January* is not, in fact, arriving today like they said it would. I am. displeased. Vexed. Very put out.

💯💯💯.

Again, the ability to understand and address the factors that influence emotional regulation in ourselves, or in others is in itself a mark of maturity. The *absence* of this ability is what leads to psychopathy.

Any woman who's been blessed to be freed from an emotionally and psychologically abusive relationship will recognize the factors in play in this particular scenario, and the pathologizing of of the woman's response by others, and, most tragically, by herself. 2/3.

I know a lot of people who absolutely do need to hear this, so:.The inability to discern the influencing factors in an emotional outburst in an adult, let alone in a developing child, is itself a symptom of emotional developmental arrest, and it's every bit as harmful. 1/3