May 31, 2026

Today the church is asking what men are for — and whether the church even has an answer. The Gospel Coalition ran a piece this week pressing young men on work ethic in an age when AI can quietly absorb the effort they once had to supply themselves. The question underneath is older than the technology: what does a man become when he stops being needed? Christianity Today approaches the same fault line from the data side — the religion gender gap is widening, and the piece is honest that nobody fully understands why. Relevant Magazine's take on the tradwife movement lands in this same field. Their argument isn't that tradwives are right, exactly — it's that the hunger driving the movement is real. Women are searching for order that modern arrangements haven't provided. Men are drifting. Both trends are accelerating. The church has theology for this. The question is whether it's being said clearly enough for anyone to hear it.

Desiring God published a stark piece on delay — drawing on the parable logic that the damned would, if they could, warn the living not to wait. Urgent register, but not wrong. The Aquila Report has two pieces on Paul in prison, essentially arguing that the apostle's contentment shames contemporary Christian complaint. Hard to dispute. Meanwhile Wyatt Graham is asking what Protestant leaders should make of the Pope's new AI encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas* — a useful primer on where Rome is going and what questions evangelicals haven't yet answered for themselves. Sudan's civil war has produced what Relevant calls the world's largest humanitarian crisis — 33 million people. MSF is warning that Ebola in Congo is spiraling. These are not footnotes. On March 24 the conversation was about whether the church actually believes God works in suffering. That question is still open.