My interview with Matt Fradd on Pints with Aquinas
Good morning everybody,
Apologies that it has been awhile—I’ve been travelling every week as my speaking schedule has been abnormally full. I have plenty of short culture updates at The Bridgehead; I went on Rod Taylor’s podcast to discuss the state of Canada; I have a eulogy for veteran pro-life activist and strategist Mark Crutcher, who founded “the CIA of the pro-life movement” and inspired the work of Lila Rose and David Daleiden, here.
At The European Conservative, I have an interview with Rev. Matthew Heise on his new book The Gates of Hell: An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union, the incredible story of the Lutheran communities suffering under persecution in the Soviet Union. It is an untold story that deserves to be read by Christians everywhere.
And finally, this week Matt Fradd—who I first met at an anti-porn conference in Houston, Texas some years back—flew me down to Steubenville, Ohio for a wide-ranging discussion on his podcast Pints with Aquinas on the state of the culture. We talked about entertainment, porn, Christian subcultures, why the West is dead, and everything in between. I’ll have chapters on each of those subjects in the book I’m currently working on. It’s a little on the long side, so I suspect most people won’t want to listen to the entire thing, but here it is for anyone interested:
Love your work Jonathan, you are great at tying all the threads together. Your book helped me reconnect with Christianity and I appreciate your interviews and willingness to talk to non Christian authors and public thinkers such as Louise Perry. I'm in nz (the lower case is deliberate) and I was at the 'Let women speak' rally March 25th in Auckland which descended into a riot without a single word by a woman being allowed to be spoken. Our mainstream media are heavily government funded and smeared the organiser Kellie-Jay Keen as a white supremacist Nazi after Neo Nazis invaded her event in Melbourne. The Australian Jewish Association publicy posted support for her on their Facebook page and wondered why the Melbourne police had let them through so the could perform a mass Nazi salute on the top of the steps of the Melbourne Parliament House. The footage they posted showed a police officer high fiving with a Nazi as they marched through unimpeded. False 🚩??? Women Marshals were injured getting Kellie-Jay out and a seventy year old woman was brutally attacked. There were around 2,000 'protesters ' and about 150 of us rally goers. The noise was like nothing Ive ever heard before. I was a literal miracle no one was killed. Women want our single sex spaces back. Both sex self id and a so called anti conversion therapy law have been passed despite widespread public opposition. Nobody voted for this evil crap. Kids are being prescribed puberty blockers at 6 times the rate of other countries, its all through our education system and our press and institutions are captured by this ideology. Here is a good summary video from GB NEWS.
https://youtu.be/0QHmJL-a5tM
I am ashamed at the woke authoritarian hell hole we have become. Please help if you can.
A good YouTube playlist on this event/riot
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ucmZOuIIjKvpoRw9xES3GsYD7UIrzI
May God continue to bless you and your work and protect you and your loved ones as the persecution of Christans ramps up globally.
Hi Jonathon, sorry I spelled your name wrong in my other comment. In nz we have a great guy called Richie Hardcore who gives talks at schools about both positive and negative masculinity, the scourge of porn, respecting women etc. He is a martial artist and a musician and he trains women who are overcoming adversity in Muay Thai for free. He coaches male fighters as well and campaigns against domestic violence which nz has a very high rate of. He's spoken out about men invading women's sport and so naturally he was recently subjected to a cancelation attempt by various groups and media outlets as a transphobic bigot. He would make a great guest if he's up for it. Link to his website here.
https://www.richiehardcore.com/
I'm a Matt Fradd fan as well. Props to you both.