Category Archives: Promise Keepers

Out: Servant Leader. In: Servant King!

Ken Harrison, CEO and chairman of Promise Keepers, has a new book out:  The Rise of the Servant Kings: What the Bible Says About Being a Man. This is a tough space for a modern Christian leader to break into.  … Continue reading

Posted in Attacking headship, Chivalry, Complementarian, Headship, Ken Harrison, Promise Keepers, Servant Leader, Traditional Conservatives | 73 Comments

A promise not to disrupt the status quo

Ken Harrison, CEO and chairman of Promise Keepers, explains that the collapse of marriage in our feminist age is due to the failings of men in When Men Mess Up, Women and Children Suffer What I saw in my days as … Continue reading

Posted in Attacking headship, Chivalry, Complementarian, Denial, Dr. Russell Moore, Fatherhood, Feminists, Headship, Ken Harrison, Promise Keepers, Southern Baptist Convention, Traditional Conservatives, Turning a blind eye | 85 Comments

Their husbands forced them to do it.

As I’ve been pointing out, the conservative Christian response to feminism has been to pretend that feminists aren’t really in the final mopping up stages in the culture war and assert instead that what we are experiencing is a sudden … Continue reading

Posted in Complementarian, Priscilla Shirer, Promise Keepers, Rebellion, Traditional Conservatives, Turning a blind eye, War Room, Weak men screwing feminism up | 130 Comments

Rainey understands his target audience.

When Dennis Rainey wants men to watch his man up videos, he turns to the complementarian head of the household, the wife.  It is true that unlike their rivals (egalitarians), complementarians practice headship and submission;  they have merely reversed the … Continue reading

Posted in Complementarian, Dennis Rainey, Disrespecting Respectability, Dr. Russell Moore, Headship, Promise Keepers, Servant Leader, Stepping Up®, Submission | 50 Comments

To thine own self be true

Perhaps feminists’ favorite moral admonishment to women and girls is Be True to Yourself.  Solomon II touched on this in his post Drive Thru Boyfriends: She does the same thing when she’s sad, lonely, happy, up, down, in, out, excited, … Continue reading

Posted in Church Apathy About Divorce, Feminists, Marriage, Promise Keepers | 31 Comments