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See this guy? He’s old, so sick, exhausted and old. His spines flop about, his skin shows the evidence of many difficult battles. He visits daily now, coming to drink the water in our swimming pool, graze on plants and then raiding the star fruit trees. He let me get very close to take this photo a few days ago. We made eye contact, and for a few seconds I felt his pain.

No, I’m not the iguana whisperer. I’m just there myself right now. Sick, exhausted and old. I recognized it in him.

The past week hasn’t helped. We were given a taste of the toxicity in Christian masculinity when The Gospel Coalition decided that a new book by Joshua Ryan Butler with the title “Beautiful Union” was fitting for their audience. Why was this so awful? Butler tried to draw comparisons between the sacrifice of Jesus, and, how do you put this delicately? Between that sacrifice and the semen of a Christian man during orgasm, going to lengths to say it could be on or in the woman and it’s all good.

Myself and so many others I love and respect like Cindy Kunsman and Sheila Wray Gregoire, well, we expressed our irritation at once again being reduced to our lady parts. The author’s idea that the ultimate hospitality a lady could bestow on a man is to welcome him into her vagina. Just lie back and think of England, don’t actively participate, merely accept the discharge with zero jollies going on.

Many of us did videos this week explaining the wrong in this man’s words.

The Gospel Coalition shut down all comments, and slightly backed away from this whole nonsense. They removed their article and instead put up a link to the first chapter. Many of the cultural enforcers that had written positive back jacket blurbs scrambled to explain they hadn’t read the entire book, ignoring the fact that the worst bits came right from the first chapter.

Turns out that Butler is part of Tim Keller’s new organization the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. Keller answered the mighty roar from we ladies of Christendom with this:

This just breaks my heart. Instead of hearing us, hearing this is something that Keller thinks that Satan has a hold of us. He’s doubling down on the wicked spiritual abuse of this thing.

Dear Brother, please read and meditate on your own words. We’re not the problem here because we’re calling out abusive attitudes and dangerous theology. What you’ve posted merely adds gasoline to a raging fire. There’s no humility and you’ve been most quarrelsome with us all.

I’m reminded anew how much farther we must go in our journeys to see truth, seek justice and mercy. Heaven forfend. I’m so tired. I’m tired of being told what to do, what to think, being treated like a 3rd class citizen of heaven.

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