Every Woman Loves a Crusader 28 January 2005 Wild At Heart -- the new book and Christian men's movement, not David Lynch's dark and violent love story -- takes off in Britain, where churches are reportedly recommending it to their flocks. The Times' Ruth Gledhill does better than endorse the book with a report that forces the comparison: are you a WAH man or a meek, mild-mannered Christian, a wimpish man of the cloth? WAH-men exalt work, marriage and family life -- and presumably household chores -- "as heroic quests rather than chains that bind." Might not a women get weary of having the recycling turned into a weekly crusade? Maybe some, but not Gledhill, whose report comes complete with an appendix listing of Christianity's alpha-males -- Bono, Gibson, the Pope as a Young Man and Richard the Lionheart, whose crusading kept him out of the house for 9 1/2 of 10 years.
The Revealer © 2005       Contact: the.revealer@nyu.edu       Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use       Syndicate This Site: RSS 1 RSS 2       Powered by Movable Type