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Why did I help organize a new men’s event? Well, the short answer is that it’s needed. Much contemporary Christian life is dominated by women, for good and for ill. One of the ill parts of this is that there is a certain feminized quality to many events that turns men off.
Our catchy name is The ATF: “Alcohol, Tobacco, and the Faith.” Though if that makes men’s wives or girlfriends nervous, they are welcome to call it “Apostolic Tradition and the Faith.” Because it is that, too. Several friends and I are starting up a new men’s event for Catholics in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis that will run once a month or so during the fall, winter, and spring. We hope to have talks and debates that will be educational, entertaining, and spiritually formative.
Why a new men’s event? Well, the short answer is that it’s needed. Much contemporary Christian, and indeed Catholic, life is dominated by women, for good and for ill. One of the ill parts of this is that there is a certain feminized quality to many events that turns men off. Here I must be careful, but one way of describing what I mean by a feminized quality to such events is that they have emphases on sharing one’s feelings and intimate life experiences, getting along together, and being emotionally comforted in ways that, while not bad, are certainly not appealing to most men.
Continued below.
What Men Want and Need ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Our catchy name is The ATF: “Alcohol, Tobacco, and the Faith.” Though if that makes men’s wives or girlfriends nervous, they are welcome to call it “Apostolic Tradition and the Faith.” Because it is that, too. Several friends and I are starting up a new men’s event for Catholics in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis that will run once a month or so during the fall, winter, and spring. We hope to have talks and debates that will be educational, entertaining, and spiritually formative.
Why a new men’s event? Well, the short answer is that it’s needed. Much contemporary Christian, and indeed Catholic, life is dominated by women, for good and for ill. One of the ill parts of this is that there is a certain feminized quality to many events that turns men off. Here I must be careful, but one way of describing what I mean by a feminized quality to such events is that they have emphases on sharing one’s feelings and intimate life experiences, getting along together, and being emotionally comforted in ways that, while not bad, are certainly not appealing to most men.
Continued below.
What Men Want and Need ~ The Imaginative Conservative