The Asbury Revival of 2023 got started on February 8, 2023 at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. Asbury University was founded in 1890 by the Reverend John Wesley Hughes. From “The Asbury Heritage” section of an Asbury University website:
I wish to respond to a comment left by Princess on my prior “A Husband’s Right to Punish his Wife” post:
“I agree with punishing if something wrong is done. Say you have rules set and a rule is broken then yes, punishment is acceptable. Punishment to force submission isn’t submission. Submission from fear isn’t submission. If you hold a gun to someone’s head and tell them to make you a sandwich they aren’t doing it out of love, duty, responsibility, care, or submission. They are doing it from fear, point blank. Submission is a feeling AND an action so you can punish to recieve the action but the true feeling will never be there and then it will lead to resentment and so on. So while yes you have the “right” to punish to recieve submission you also need to understand that you will never be getting true submission, just a fearful response to avoid punishment. I would think men would want true and dutiful, loving submission, not holding a gun to their wives heads to hear what they want… any good and loving woman will give total submission to her husband.. if you have to force it by punishment then there is something deeper going on and you will never have true submission”
I have had Biblical Gender Roles on my blogroll for a long time. I really liked that Larry Solomon, the author behind Biblical Gender Roles, was willing to talk about sex within marriage; very few other people were really willing to talk about the subject at all. In particular the idea that the man’s right to dominance within a marriage included sex as well. I am quite sure this is traditional, the view that the husband is sexually dominant over his wife as part of being dominant over his wife in general. Larry’s blog was the only blog that I was aware of that dived into this subject in detail or even probed into this subject at all really and for that reason I valued the blog highly and placed it at the top of my “Relationship Advice” blogroll.
The 2022 mid-terms were a good day for democracy and a good day for Ron DeSantis. It was a good day for democracy because all of the important election-denying Republicans, that is election-denying Republicans in competitive states, lost their elections, and in general the more closely aligned the Republican was to Donald Trump the worse they did. It was a good day for Ron DeSantis because Ron DeSantis won his re-election as the governor of Florida by a huge 59.4% to 40.0% for the Democrat Charlie Crist. In the 2018 election for the governor of Florida Ron DeSantis squeaked by with a narrow victory against Andrew Gillum 49.6% to 49.2%. DeSantis won the Republican primary for governor of Florida in 2018 by 56.5% to 36.5% for Putnam largely based on Trump’s endorsement of DeSantis in the primary.
Rod Dreher posted an interesting article at The American Conservative website on October 27, 2022 titled “Our Patriarchal Future.” I feel like this is the first time I have ever heard Rod Dreher utter the “p” word – patriarchy – especially prominently such as placing it in the title of his article. He has done a few men’s rights friendly articles and occasionally talked about how men have it especially hard in this culture but for him to declare that patriarchy is our future is more than what I have heard from him before.
Jennifer Moleski posted an interesting video titled “Women Who Just Take From You” where she said (0:14 to 1:29):
“The maturity needed, required, in order to have a relationship. So I think of the women, and men to, but the women that have the laundry list of expectations needs desires wants from a partner. Ahh! I hate using the word partner, that’s the indoctrination. From a husband, and it’s just a laundry list of requirements to take from them. I’m going to switch it and tell about two men that I knew who were just love addicts who were looking for a woman and when I asked why they said because I want someone to HOLD ME. And I said, and let’s switch back to women with the laundry list, same thing I would say to the women as to the men, you’re going to fail at any relationship because you are looking for someone to TAKE FROM, you are not full so you need all these things in order to feel GOOD, and feel good enough to sustain the relationship.”
Without a doubt the most significant cultural event of the past year was the overturning of Roe vs. Wade on June 24, 2022. I expected maybe Roe vs. Wade would be overturned in 10 years or something, that being consistent with an overall turn towards cultural conservatism that I expected would be happening 10 years from now, but it turns out no such gradualism was needed, that already the majority on the Supreme Court is radical enough to overturn Roe vs. Wade right now without delay.
Roe vs. Wade; born January 22, 1973, died June 24, 2022; just short of 50 years old. I have noticed before big cultural changes happening every 50 years; in 1870 the end of coverture, in 1920 women’s right to vote, in 1970 the modern feminist “gender equality” idea, and in 2020 wokeness; the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism.
The coronavirus pandemic is now over in the United States I would say. The last of the major restrictions was lifted on or shortly after April 18, 2022 when U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle invalidated the nationwide mask mandate on public transportation. You could also say that the pandemic ended on March 26, 2022 when the excess deaths went to zero, when the number of people dying in the United States was no longer above normal.
Secular Patriarchy 