We're in the season here in the state's face with an incredible number of powerful men

getting exposed from making unwanted and unwarranted sexual advances on women.

Of the alleged perpetrators, the list includes names like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey,

Louis C.K., Al Franken, Roger Ailes, Roy Moore, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Bill O'Reilly,

and Garrison Keeler. It's on the left and on the right. It's liberals and conservatives,

it's politicians and entertainers from Hollywood to Minneapolis to DC into New York City.

It seems like what makes these stories, especially tragic Pastor John, is not merely that these

are powerful men who took advantage of less powerful women. It's especially tragic because

as men that they are called by God to demonstrate sacrificial care for women beyond

what women are called to offer men. You've written on this in a recent article, Pastor John,

here's simply debrief for us your thoughts, and especially now as you see the news of all these

allegations. My point in that article and in this podcast is that the egalitarian assumptions

in our culture and to a huge degree in the church as well have muted silence, nullified.

One of the means that God has designed for the protection and the flourishing of women,

namely that men as men by virtue of their created God-given maleness apart from

any practical competencies that they have or don't have, that men as men have

special responsibility to care for and protect and honor women that is different

from the care and protection and honor that women owe men. That's my thesis, that's my point.

Now it seems to me that for decades Christian and non-Christian egalitarians

have argued, have assumed, have modeled that peculiar roles and responsibilities among men

and women in the home, in the church, in the culture should emerge only from competencies

rather than from a deeper reality rooted in who we are differently as male and female,

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