The BOY Crisis, Maundy Thursday, Truth and Joy, What can bind us together?

Today Andrew pays tribute to the success of the new Roseanne t.v. show.

His guest is Warren Farrell, co-author of the book, The BOY crisis. The biggest cause of the boy crisis: Dad-deprived boys.

In the developed countries there is permission for divorce and permission for freedom. Can a boy be a respected male and also be one's unique self, one's creative self? When there is not a father figure to guide the boy to a sense of purpose, boys experience a purpose void. We have morphed from muscle to mental, from muscle to microchip, which requires that boys be educated.

Farrell has served on the board of the National Organization for Women. Klavan tells him that feminism has emphasized things like all men are toxic, rapists, privileged. Stanford University gets 800 million dollars a year from the federal government. They have to be careful not to look like they discriminate against women, so boys who have consensual sex get accused of rape and have no due process to defeat false charges.

Recommendations of Farrell: get fathers much more involved; get boys involved with other male mentors, get boys in situations where they learn to have give and take, express emotions, and not withdraw into depression and feeling rejected.

Holy week thoughts of Andrew: Today is Maundy Thursday, a day we celebrate The Last Supper when Jesus gave the commandment for us to love one another as He had loved us. Andrew's father warned him not to convert to Christianity. He died on Maundy Thursday. Andrew had lost his father whom he had never gotten along with, but had found a Father who has given him so much joy and insight. Andrew wants us to be bound together in sharing truths: we do have rights and we are free! Those rights are given to us by God! It is love and truth that bind us together! God who loves us, died for us, forgives us, and over time, the more we understand the story, the more our joy increases! If you have to keep having to find other people to blame for your misery, you know that story you are believing is false because you will never run out of people to blame! Judge not, lest you be judged!