Category Archives: Stepping Up®

Man up and honor your father.

This is the fourth post in a series on the program Honor Your Father Today.  If you want to read the first three posts, you can do so here: A radical Father’s Day Proposal. Don’t refer to God as the … Continue reading

Posted in Complementarian, Courageous, Disrespecting Respectability, FamilyLife, Father's Day, Fatherhood, Honor Your Father Today, Miserliness, Stepping Up®, Traditional Conservatives | 57 Comments

Servant Leadership in two easy lessons.

Lesson 1:  Your only job as a husband is to sacrifice yourself for her, not lead her.  Don’t ever tell her what her role is or what to do.  That would be subjugation: Subjugation is defined as “defeating or gaining … Continue reading

Posted in Attacking headship, Complementarian, FamilyLife, Marriage, Servant Leader, Stepping Up® | 177 Comments

Cucked by Courtly Love.

Cuckoo’s are diabolical parasites.  The video below shows what happens after a cuckoo egg is laid in a Warbler’s nest.   The cuckoo chick ejects the real offspring so it can take their place.  The truly disturbing part is that … Continue reading

Posted in C.S. Lewis, Chivalry, Courtly Love, Cuckoldry, FamilyLife, Illegitimacy, Stepping Up®, Traditional Conservatives, Wife worship | 237 Comments

Real Men Step Up to Fifty Shades of Rationalization.

There is a blog companion to FamilyLife/Dennis Rainey’s Stepping Up® book and video program, and it has a three part series by Scott Williams on Fifty Shades of Grey (50SOG).  With the titles alone, you can’t make this stuff up: What’s a … Continue reading

Posted in 50 Shades of Grey, Book of Oprah, Complementarian, Denial, Dennis Rainey, FamilyLife, Feral Females, Game, Headship, Manliness, Romantic Love, Servant Leader, Stepping Up®, Submission, Traditional Conservatives, Turning a blind eye, Ugly Feminists, You can't make this stuff up | 164 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