Somehow, Hildegard managed to balance equal dignity with meaningful difference, in a way I’d not yet encountered. I wish I’d followed that thread; perhaps it would have pulled me into the Christian cosmos earlier. Instead, I let it go and lost myself in the labyrinth of postmodern feminism for the next ten years.

Our churches’ typical method for dealing with men doesn’t produce engaged men, or trained men, or settled men. Instead, we arm men with a few Bible verses and a weekly speech. Then we send them off to a “life group” at someone’s home, where it’s assumed they will “connect” by talking about that week’s speech. What so many men get out of all this is