Speaker 1: Hey, I'm gonna put my headphones on, and I didn't know.
I wasn't really napping. I actually was reading welcome, appreciates you.
There is a big, big change happening in culture related
to young men leaving churches like the North American Anglican Church,
which is far more conservative than the European flavor that
which is completely lost. People leaving, of course, the Methodist Church,
half of which has gone completely anti biblical, even leaving decent,
fairly biblically strict Lutheran churches, and they're leaving to go
to Orthodox Christianity. And this is where the pastors or
priests were robes, where there is a homily. It feels
much more Catholic. It's not, but it feels much more Catholic.
The services feature different pastors all the time. There's not
a focus on one pastor. This is being explained as
young men seeking a masculine church. Okay, but I don't
think that's it. I think it's far more clear what
it is. And if it's written about by the secular press,
of course they need to make it something like it's
more masculine. We'll talk about that. We do need to
talk about what's going on with Ethan Haim, the whistleblowing
surgeon out of Texas because Joe biden so called Department
of Justice is making their third attempt to put him
in prison for whistle blowing on his hospital who behind
the scenes was still carrying out surgeries and hormonal well treatments.
They're not treatments on kids. We'll talk about this with
the help of our free speech platform, the Todd Herman
Show that substack dot com and with God Almighty.
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Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman.
Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made and these
are the times, sirs, God has decided if we shall live.
So Ethan Haim, you know him. He's a surgeon who
blew the whistle on his hospital in Texas that was
continuing to carry out these wrong sex hormones and wrong
sex surgeries. They said that they weren't going to do this,
and they did it, and he caught them, and without
sharing the name of any patients or any families, he
gave that information to Christopher Rufo the journalists originally now
I don't know it originally, but worked out of Seattle
for a long time. Now, of course, very famous Resident
Trump has brought him in to help clear out DEI, etc.
From the military and other federal institutions. So the Department
of Justice went in front of the judge in this case,
and they had a very serious issue to bring up
with this judge. It happens that Ethan Haim was on
Twitter sharing his opinion of the DOJ. He said some
mean things. He said they were incompetent. Well, they had
filed the brief that contains material and important spelling errors. Whoops.
They had a prosecutor attached to the case who knew
she had a conflict. Her family's company has major business
dealings with this hospital. They have helped raise funds for
this hospital, and yet she decided to try to destroy
Ethan Ham no doubt on behalf of this hospital as
launder through the Department of Justice. She has since stepped
off the case. Ethan Ham meanly pointed this out mean tweets.
He also had the temerity, the audacity, the daring to
write on Twitter the fact that the Department of Justice
had in one of their grand jury. They're going on
three attempts to destroy this man. One of the grand
jury presentations contained a lie. So the Department of Justice
so called, came back and said, oh, well, we didn't
know it was a lie. That was their excuse. Because
he's been pointing these things out. The Department of Justice says,
this is very, very dangerous, and it's very disturbing, and
it's very hurtful to the career public servants who work
at the DOJ. They shouldn't have criticism because if they
get criticized, people will kill them or something. So they
went in front of the judge, and the judge looked
at their gag order. They wanted Ethan Haim banned from
certain behaviors, certain forms of communication. They weren't all that
clear what they were, but they just gave some examples
in future such things. Because you can't have an American
citizen criticizing its government when he's on trial by that government.
That's very dangerous. The judge did not agree to impose
the gag order, which would appear to be good news
right sapped. He left it open. He didn't deny it,
he didn't approve it. It's hanging like the proverbial sword,
the Democlean sword over the head of Ethan Ham. So
anytime they want to or the judge shoes is he
can say, yeah, you remember that gag order. He also
said to Ethan Haim, We're gonna be watching you make
sure that you don't step a foul of these guidelines.
Which guidelines. Well, you know his wife is a mother
and a lawyer, and she had a response to this,
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So the judge has effectively come out and said there
may not be a gag order, but somebody been watching you,
and maybe I'll just put you in prison for just
a little while because you've said some mean things. His
wife decided to approach this. Her name is well, her
name is his wife. And if I could ever get
my computer to proper with me Andrea Ham, she wrote this,
my husband, Ethan Haim's First Amendment rights may be under
attack by a de facto gag order, but mine or not.
On December third, the judge threatened Ethan with federal prison
and his attorneys with sanctions if they continue to post
so called inflammatory content on x dash Twitter about the
DJ's corruption. In this case, he didn't grant or deny
the gag order, but kept the government's motion live pending
trial in February. This is arguably worse and serves two purposes.
The court's instructions were to avoid similar conduct. Leaves unclear
what kind of speech represents a violation, presumably that which
the DJ doesn't like see below, and what the consequences
would be in positions of a gag order merely being
one of them. By leaving the matter undecided, the court
is shielded from public criticism and appellate review, where it
would likely be overturned as unconstitutional in the Fifth Circuit.
As a result of this non gag order gag order,
the onus is on the defense to muzzle themselves. It's
an unconstitutional prioristraint of someone who needs free speech the most,
the criminal defendant, David facing a corrupt government goliath. I
was not planning and speaking publicly about the this case.
I'm a private person and I don't really use social media.
But Ethan's exposts have been the only way he's been
able to raise funds for a legal defense and expose
the DJs blatant corruption over the last year and a half.
As a wife an attorney, I can't sit by while
they extinguish the light he's shone on this case, particularly
as newly unsealed evidence proves this case was malicious all along.
More on that later. This from the judge. If similar
conduct continues to arise in this case. After this hearing,
I will not hesitate to reconsider the issuing of a
gag order such an order, should such an order become necessary.
Any violation by an attorney may result in sanctions and
or a formal written order of sanctions from this Court. Furthermore,
any violation of this order by the defendant himself could
lead to the revocation of his bond and immediate custody
sending to the Federal Jailhouse, the Federal Detention Center. Just
pause for a second. If you say mean things on Twitter,
We're going to put you in a federal prison. This
judge is not a judge. This judge is a tyrant.
Period as background, she continues, Ethan is the whistleblower who
exposed in a report with real Chris Rufo that Texas
Children's Hospital was lying to the public about the existence
of it so called transgender program for children. They were
implanting puberty blockers on kids as young as eleven and
hiding it from the public. He's currently facing four felony
charges on made up baseless hip, a theory. The DJ's
case is falling apart for both legal and non legal reasons.
Everyone should read this excellent artor from Tom Bartlett's at
the Free Press. It is a good article. Those reporting
reallycaptures what this case is about and what has been
like to live with. Since January twenty twenty four, Ethan
has been vocal on X about the corruption we've experienced
since the government first showed up at her home in
twenty twenty three. Remember this, as I recalled, they rolled
heavy to his house, you know, armed agents and such,
because he might pop out of that house and start
performing surgery on them, because he's a very, very dangerous surgeon.
Most recently, she writes, he's been posting about the prosecutor's
failure failures, using screenshots of public motions and transcripts, including
emotion to dismiss hearing where they really embarrassed themselves. He
posted about serious financial and personal conflicts held by the
former lead prosecutor, Tina I'm sorry. His lawyers at Burke
Law Group have been vigorously defending his First Amendment rights
and their opposition to the gag order. They called it
the culmination of an abusive and incompetent prosecution and a
bad faith attempt to shield the prosecutors from mounting criticism
and not the bee represented by P and J. Bahn
or panajem is It also law firm also sought to
intervene in this case, recognizing the serious first emission issues
at stake, but the judge denied their motions. So what
this is really all about is that the government cannot
have people questioning their power the orthodoxy of the so
called transgender treatments. Again, so called treatments. Ethan Haym didn't
share the names of any patients. He didn't share the
names of any families at no time that roof will
have access to this. They simply proved that Texas Children's Hospital,
like every other it seems children's hospital in this country
is completely bought and paid for. In tomorrow's sub stack
you can get the Todd Herman show of that substack
dot com. I'm going to explain why you and I
need to remember something in the American medical system, the
American pharmacy system, pharmaceutical system, the American surgical system. We
are not patients. We are products. They're getting in the
way of productizing teen depression and teen anxiety. Ethan Haim
is getting in the way of a massive vertical they're
building of kids who become adults and are one hundred
percent reliant on pharma for the rest of their lives
to maintain the illusion of a fake identity. They're also
adults a massive vertical who've been convinced that pharma is
how they become their unique selves. That's how they live
their true lives. We must understand something and be wide eyed,
and we must be clearheaded. I'm a big fan of
what Elon Musk is doing with cutting government spending and abuse.
I'm a big fan of the Department of Government efficiency.
But let's please be wide eyed about something. Please understand.
Elon Musk says he lost his son to what he
calls the transcult. That's a phrase I endorse. And he
also wants computer chips in your brain. He's started by
installing computer chips in the brains of people who need
them to be able to move to overcome paralysis. That
can be miraculous. Watch as that metastasizes. Watch as an
entire vertical created by pharma and academia and the Mockingbird media.
An entire vertical of people whose illusion of self is
made possible through pharma are offered the opportunity to be
further augmented with computer ships in their brains, they could
just instantly have access to languages, math knowledge. You no
longer need to go to your phone to ask a
question how to concern? How do I convert pints to pounds?
Be wide eyed. The enemy is going to use any
means necessary to get into our bodies. You know why, right,
He needs to separate us from God in any means
he can. Pornography in the minds of young men is
a mental virus. It is a spirit virus. It puts
into their minds beliefs and pleasure pathways in regard to
sexual activity that stands adverse to God. And it is addictive.
If every I don't know, night, morning, day, you use pornography,
and you know what I mean by using it, you
are giving yourself endorphin hits. When those endorphint hits are
suddenly gone, that's pretty traumatic. And all you need to
go back to the endorphins is to go back to
the source that separates you from God. So does this
fake image. I wasn't made in God's image. I was
made in the image of myself. I'm all powerful and
a computer ship in your brain. The fear of the
Lord is the beginning of wisdom. We're to put the
word of God on our minds, on our foreheads, to
teach it to our kids, to live it on a
daily basis. When there's a computer ship in your brain,
your brain made by God. The people who make these
computer ships, do you really think they won't try to
insert their personalities into it. Think of the money, after all,
we are products, not patients in this corrupt medical system,
and the money's intense. It is if you look at
the money that we spend on healthcare and how the
performance has gone down, I think that is only maybe
maybe second place to the world's greatest economy with the
biggish engine of commerce and innovation. Being a nation that
is a debtor nation, we are absolutely, absolutely structurally bankrupt.
We are officially thirty trillion in debt. It's more than
three hundred and thirty trillion. When people get this, we
see the interest rates going up. One of the reasons
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the work of the freedom of workers. So that's got
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does need to get into our bodies. He hates our
bodies because he doesn't have He hates our bodies because
God said we were made in His image, Which brings
us around to a spiritual culture shift. The New York
Post has written about a study on Orthodox Christian churches.
Here's kind of an example what orthodox means much more
choir music, sometimes even chanting instead of worship bands with
popular Christian music. It means less of a focus on
the personality of pastors. In fact, no focus on the
personality of pastors. Pastors are really doing homilies, reading straight
from the Bible, with a little bit of an observation
maybe about common life, but far less focus on what
we would say at my church is real life, talking
about the news of the day to some degree, and
how we all face the news of the day. And
it is far more than traditional. The services are an
establish fish length, they're an established time frame, they have
an established survey of communion. It's all very, very predictable.
Some people would say it's boring. This is from the
New York Post. A survey of Orthodox churches around the
country found that parish has saw a seventy percent increase
in converts in twenty twenty two compared with the pre
so called pandemic levels of twenty nineteen, and while historically
men and women converted in equal numbers, vastly more men
have joined the church since twenty twenty. Father Josiah Tenham
and you'll hear from him in a second has led
Saint Andrew's Orthodox Church in Riverside, California, for nearly three decades,
and he's noticed a swift jump in interest. The last
four to five years been a massive uptick. It's showing
no sign of tapering off. If anything, it's increasing still.
It's happening massively and untold numbers all over the country.
Chartum's church has one thousand active participants, and although recent
converts in his congregation have been split roughly evenly between
men and women, he agrees that both ordo churches around
the country are gaining far more men. The feminization of
non orthodox forms of Christianity in America has been in
high gear for decades. Trynam explained, that's his opinion feminization interesting.
He points to the fact that the vast majority of
attendees at most Christian churches are female. Many services are
accordally dominated by emotional songs, swaying, uplifted hands, eyes closed
in ecstasy. Men are much less comfortable in those settings,
and they've voted with their feet, which is why their
minorities in these forms of worship. He said, our worship
forms are very traditional and very masculine. Now, incidentally, when
you get a look at this pasture, you might understand
something of a view of his masculine view of masculinity.
But is that really why? Here's the saying that's worth considering.
What good is the church if it's like the world?
Why go to church? Our friend Gianna Jensen, famous for
having survived an abortion, a great Christian woman with great
opinions and all things. Jenna Jesson creates some coffee mugs.
One of them says, how can you change a world
you resemble? So if you walk into a church and
it's just like the world, why walk in the culture?
It looks to a mall. Why not just go to
the mall. Malls are more fun. You can go whenever
you want, Plus there's ice cream. In the case of
an Orthodox church, they don't look a thing like the world.
They look very different. There's also this they're the same theologically.
Now you would take, for instance, some evangelical churches, and
I can only speak from the experience of mind versus
our Lutheran church. The Lutheran Church in Seattle, we were
members of for years, was in fact biblically strict for
a while, and then the cracks began to appear. We
had one pastor who couldn't stop having every single sermon
be about the environment. At first it was recycling, and
then it was a carbon tax, and then it was
global warming, and then it was a un approach to
capping carbon output. And very soon I started to really
track his sermons. They went from ninety percent the word,
ten percent observation to ninety percent environmentalism with a little
bit of Jesus sprinkled on top. We had another pastor
who lost his faith. He stepped away and went back
to being a college professor. And he's a good one,
he's a dear man. We were victimized then by a
pastor sent in with half his salary paid. I knew
what was up. My wife knew what was up. Is
a sorrows plant. We did everything we could to try
to stop this, but church went the other way. They
brought this guy in in half or at least three
quarters of his salary was paid by a leftist group.
His sermons were mostly about South Park. Well I'm not kidding,
quoted a show that mocks the Lord Jesus in nearly
every one of his sermons. And then the questions began,
why aren't we bringing people in to perform same sex unions?
Where in the Bible did Jesus ever talk about gay.
Jesus addressed marriage, adultery, fornication, and he chose twelve men,
eleven of whom became apostles. And then of course Luke
and Saul, who became Paul, came along and they taught.
They taught about marriage, what it means, human sexuality, and
how and how not to practice it. Jesus also said,
I did not come to tear down the law, but
to fulfill it. And yes, there were some specific instances
where Jesus changed things, which he gets to do because
he's God, because he'd been fulfilled to the law, dietary restrictions,
et cetera. Jesus changed those because they'd been fulfilled and
he was about to fulfill the entire law. So our
church changed with the times. Orthodox Christian churches are not
changing with the times. They're not even having worship bands
or coffee in the lobbies. Is it masculinity or is
it something else there's drawing men there? Incidentally, Evan developed churches,
at least ours has always had more women than men,
and part of that has to do with women living
longer than men. That's a number that's not disclosed in
this Many of the single women who attend evangelical churches
are single, not through choice, but through the death of
their husbands. Women are living a lot longer than men,
and that number continues to expand. But there's something else,
and I'm sure you've already connected the dots on this.
This isn't in the New York post piece, but it
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driving men towards the Orthodox churches? I don't think so.
I think it's predictability. We all have in our hearts
a need to be led by God. I would suggest
that men who are called to be the spiritual leaders
of their homes need a solid leader. Solid leaders don't
change with the times. Yes, we can adapt on a
battlefield basis, but the Bible doesn't give us the opportunity
to adapt because the ultimate leader and the only true
leader is Jesus, and he's not changing. He can't and
won't because his word is in errant. It's complete and
an errant, and it is useful for teaching and rebuke
at all times. The further you move away from it,
the further it's going to drive in the men's hearts
that I don't feel like this is a leadership place.
But then there's this liberal leading churches are absolutely plummeting
terms the number of attendees and the more aligned they
are to so called progressive views. The more distinct this
drop is. If you look at the key Anglican churches
of Canada. Now, the churches of Canada are far more liberal.
The angorgan Church in North America and the United States
is a little bit conservative. They're far more liberal in Canada.
Look at this twenty nineteen number of total number on
parish rolls thirty three thousand, A department three undred and
thirty three thousand, eight hundred ninety four twenty twenty two
two udor ninety four thousand, nine hundred and thirty one
to twelve percent decline twenty six percent decline in average
Sunday attendants regular identifiable givers as seventeen percent decline, Easter
attendance forty five percent, decline Pentecost attendants thirty seven percent,
decline forty seven percent, decline in Christmas attendants twenty five percent,
decline in baptisms confirmations thirteen percent decline ten percent decline
in marriages funerals zero percent decline angagan churches. If Canada
introduced a pastoral blessing for men who think they're women
and parishioners who don't believe there are any biological sex whatsoever.
If your church looks like the world, what is the
need for your church? When you're walking through a mall,
you expect to see signs of the world. You expect
to see pride flags, so called trans flags. You expect
to see coffee shops and yuck yak in. And we
have a coffee shop in our church. We have a lobby.
There's a reason for that. Number One, it gives people
an opportunity to sit and have fellowship. Number two, our
churches opened about twelve hours a day because there's always
something going on. We always want the church building to
be in use. We never want the real estate to
go cold. Why do that? Why stewart God's money in
such an inappropriate way. But there's some things that are
not going to change in our church. There's not going
to be a pride flag. There's not going to be
a so called trans flag. And as much as our
pastors take heat for this, there's very little discussion of
political personalities. Our point of view in the church is,
if we're in the Bible, you don't need us to
tell you how to vote. If we're speaking biblical truth,
you already know how to vote. On the topic of
things like so called transgenderism. If you consult Genesis and
go threat the Bible on male female relationships, you understand
that is not biblical. Same thing with marriage, same thing
with thieving, same thing with coveting. If you apply coveting
to things like reparations, you already have your answer. Reparations
are driven from hatred, or not to hate our neighbor,
but to love them. Reparations are a form of refusing
to forgive. They're a form of coveting. If you're in
the Bible, you know that. Or to forgive our enemies,
or to love our enemies, or to pray for them,
or not to covet either their neighbors, wives, or their houses,
or their cars or their fur one ks, or to forgive.
Our point of view on this is the opposite of
these heretical churches, and in Christian Orthodox churches, most of
them are out speaking about politics. They're going straight from
the Word of God and sometimes even fire and brimstone.
Sometimes they talk about hell and the reality of the
choice you face. I'm always fascinated, literally fascinated by obsessions
people have about the longevity of life. And I guess
I'm at this age I'm fifty seven, where a lot
of my friends are saying things I can ask. You know, hey,
tell me about your day. Well, I'm still above ground.
That's a good thing. Why Why, Well, I guess it
beats the alternative. Why Well, I mean, I'm living. I'm emulatory. Cool.
Why is that better than eternity with God? Well, I
guess I'm just not ready for that yet. Okay, fair enough,
I am a little different. My point is this, people
who fret about every last day. I have this goal.
I want to live to be one hundred and one
years old. I want to be one hundred and fifteen.
I want that. I want to see my great great grandkids. Cool.
What is that compared to one hundred trillion years? You're
one hundred year lifespan compared to one hundred trillion years?
What is it? It's like spitting out of your mouth
the word trillion compared to repeating the word trillion for
the next one hundred trillion seconds. So focus on your longevity.
If that's where you're at, focus on holding onto this
life and scrapping for every last second, then maybe you should.
After all, it's God's choice when it's time for us
to go. But if you're not moniacally focused on your future,
you think that ninety or eighty or even one hundred
and fifteen years is going to matter when you failed
to plan for your eternity. There's a number of pastors
who are with these churches that are Orthodox Christian and
they become kind of YouTube celebrities, and this is one
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them was mentioned in the article in The New York
Post and quoted in his opinion of the church becoming
more and more well feminine. We'll get to him. Let's
start first of all with a guy named Father Moses McPherson,
Holy Mother of God, Orthodox Church in Georgetown, Texas. And
by the way, Father Moses, if you're on the video
service watching this, he is as yoked as he looks.
The dude is probably around a four hundred pound maybe
four und and fifty pound bench presser and very orthodox in.
Speaker 3: The name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit. When I was in my mid twenties,
I had a mentor who posed a question to me
at the time that set me on a trajectory of
looking at life circumstances in a different light. And if
you ask yourself this question, I believe that many times
you're going to know what the right answer is. And
he would ask me after I told him some dilemma
that I had run into, some problem that I was facing,
he would say, do you want to do what ninety
nine percent of Christians would do? Or do you want
to do what one percent would do? Essentially, what he
was saying was, what do you think the Saints would
do in this situation? What goes against every inclination that
you have what grinds against your self love and absolutely
puts you to death. What decision is going to be
the hardest to make? And so it was as I
went through circumstances and I would talk with him, he
would repeat this question again and again, and every time
I knew the answer, and not only that, but just
the question itself would kind of hype me up to
accept the answer because I would immediately feelin that competitiveness,
that inclination of like, I don't want to be like
everybody else. I want to push myself farther. I want
to brace what's more difficult. I want to feel the
sting of actually having to live out my faith in
a way that is not going to be comfortable. And
so today's video is all about that. What does the
ninety nine percent of people do? Just in general in
our culture. These are all your pop culture icons, your
movie stars or Andrew Tates, your Mannosphere, all these people
who are looking for a certain set of circumstances and
status and success as they present it to everyone, versus
what is the one percent path? The path of the saints,
those who emulate Christ.
Speaker 1: And He's presenting in front of a whiteboard, looking at
the temporal versus the eternal in other words, permanence in
other words, predictability, in other words, solidity, in other words,
building your house upon the rock of the Word of God.
Compare that to these churches that have to just go
out with the current thing. How many leftist churches suddenly
identified Ukraine as the most important country in the world,
the country where Jesus was born. Fact, this is far
more to me a driver of these trends of young
men adopting Orthodox Christianity than is the idea that Evangelical
churches or Lutheran churches have become feminized. They're not necessarily
become feminized. It's just become like the world. There's no
reason to be there, there's no predictability. Strong men need
strong messages. This next gentleman was quoted in The New
York Times in the post article. He's the guy who
said that the churches have become feminized. His name is
Father Josiah Trenham, and he leads Saint Andrew's Orthodox Church
in Riverside, California, has done that for quite a while.
He also has a YouTube channel. This gets a lot
of hits. He was talking about Instagram and young girls
and what's happened to them? And it's a video called
Ugly Girls question Mark.
Speaker 4: It's had a tremendous impact, and most of it has
been horrifically negative. Let me read you just a few
of the major areas that are deeply troubling. A focus
on dissatisfaction with bodily image, what's sometimes called appearance anxiety,
has spiked amongst women. The altered kind of best presentation
digital presentation that women make has raised a perfection bar
that has led to self condemnation in so many women's lives,
dissatisfaction and has produced a spike in eating disorders, depression
and anxiety, suicidal tendencies and thoughts idiation, self comparison, an
intense fixation on comparison, and internalized rather perverse concept of
the ideal being exceedingly thin, and has promoted a radical
increase in cosmetic surgery, altering in order physically altering through
surgery one's presentation. This is not news to anybody who's
been watching and thinking about these matters for some time.
In the male sphere, of course, this also leads to
many many temptations for men to objectify women worse than
we already do, and to develop standards and expectations that
are completely fantasy and unreal, and to miss well, to
miss authentic life and the real glory of male female relationships,
especially the significance from God of developing a love interest
and cultivating a partner that you can marry and build
a life with. Before the face of God.
Speaker 1: There are very few fathers dads who are having that
form of conversation with kids these days, as is evidenced
by the use of social media. So one other factor
driving this is a lot of young men who had
either absent fathers or part time fathers, or fathers who
do not know how to lead in the godly sense.
You're looking at one of them. I was a young father.
I didn't know how to lead in the godly sense,
and it cost my daughter a great deal, cost our
family a great deal. Some men need fathers, they need
the solid rock of Christ in all of us. There's
a need for God's leadership. And I believe that God
is the reason this is happening. I believe that God
has communicated to young men that's not my face look
over here. I don't think it needs to be in
an Orthodox Christian Church. But I think that trend is
far more explainable as an act of God than the
feminization of the churches. This is the Todd Hermannshaw. Please go,
be well, be strong, be kind, and do everything you
can to follow Christ, which by the way includes being
a member of a church community. He did, in fact,
invent the churches.