When Trans Rage Leads to the Murder of Children

There was something different about the 2023 mass murder in Nashville, where little children were slaughtered in cold blood and innocent educators gunned down at a Christian school: The murderer was a woman... who identified as a man.

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The details of the March 2023 mass killing in Nashville, TN were all too familiar. Little children were slaughtered in cold blood and innocent educators gunned down. 

Yet something was different about this tragic massacre. 

This one took place in a Christian school, the very school the killer went to as a child, and the murderer was a woman.

As noted by the New York Times on March 27, 2023, “In a database of 172 public shootings involving at least four fatalities over the last five and a half decades, all but 4 of the perpetrators were male.”

Yet this female mass murderer, Audrey Hale, was different in one other way: 

It has been known since last year’s horrific attack that Hale’s writings, called a “manifesto,” outlined the reasons for the massacre. But until last week, those writings were not released by the police.

Now that some of them have been made public, we have a window into Hale’s tormented soul....

This Young Pop Star is Pushing the Deadliest Pills of All

Let’s our outrage and grief over Olivia Rodrigo’s actions into prayers for this younger generation (including Rodrigo, who certainly believes she is doing good). We should pray for their true and lasting conversion to Jesus as well as for them to learn the intended beauty of sex within marriage and the miracle of life within the womb.

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It is one thing to push pills that could lead to death because of overdose or abuse. 

It is another thing to push pills that are designed to kill. 

But that’s just what one young pop star is doing – a pop star with 36.7 million Instagram followers.

I’m speaking of Olivia Rodrigo, and the pills she is pushing – more accurately, the pills she is giving away – are abortion-related pills. What could be deadlier than that?

I knew nothing about Rodrigo or her mission until our eldest granddaughter Elianna, a 2023 graduate of Liberty University, sent me a screenshot of this post on X dated March 12. It contained a picture of a woman’s hand holding some condoms whose packaging reads, “Funding abortion? It’s a good idea, right?”, along with two packets containing the “emergency contraceptive” pills. (Presumably the woman whose hand was in the picture is the one who posted it. At present, it has 12.8 million views and more than 38,000 likes.)

The post was captioned: “free planb at @oliviarodrigo in st. louis tonight 💓 thank you @MOAbortionFund.” (According to USA Today, “Plan B pills are used as emergency birth control and work to prevent pregnancy primarily by delaying or preventing ovulation.” Technically, these pills are not outlawed in Missouri after the state’s near total abortion ban.)

To paraphrase, “Yes, thank you Olivia for helping us terminate any life inside our wombs before it even has a chance!” How tragic.

Who, then, is Olivia Rodrigo, and why is she on this mission?

According to Biography.com, “Olivia Rodrigo found fame on the [Disney Channel] TV show High School Musical: The Musical: The Series before embarking on a Grammy-winning music career. She is known for her hit song ‘drivers license’ and the acclaimed albums Sour and GUTS.”

Billboard states that she is 23 years old and describes her as “a sharp-penned singer-songwriter with a success story to rival the likes of fellow Disney starlet-turned pop stars Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus.” 

(Not to get off track, but if you are a parent and your kids enjoy watching Disney child stars, I would strongly encourage you to do two things: first, pray for these Disney kids that they would grow up right; second, don’t let your own kids get too enamored with these child stars, lest they want to change follow Hannah Montana as she morphs into Miley Cyrus.)

As for Rodrigo’s recent activities, a headline on People.com announced that she is, 

“Distributing Free Condoms and Emergency Contraceptive Pills” on her recent concert tour, which the article then describes as “promoting safe sex and reproductive care.”

So, in keeping with the standard Orwellian terminology, having an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic is your “reproductive right.” Destroying a just-conceived baby in the womb is “reproductive care.” 

“At her Guts World Tour stop in St. Louis, Missouri on Tuesday, Rodrigo — who has been vocal about her support for reproductive rights in the past — and the Missouri Abortion Fund provided boxes of morning-after pill Julie and condoms to fans at the show, according to photos shared by a fan on X (formerly Twitter).

“The distribution comes after Missouri enforced its trigger ban on all abortions except to save the life of the pregnant person when Roe V. Wade was overturned in 2022, according to Center for Reproductive Rights.

“Rodrigo, 21, is also donating a portion of proceeds from each ticket sold for the Guts World Tour to her non profit, Fund 4 Good, as well as the National Network of Abortion Funds.”

Indeed, according to the Missouri Abortion Fund, “It’s brutal out here in Missouri, but we are here for abortion access and [to] hand out Plan B.”

But before we condemn Rodrigo, let’s put her activism in context.

She, along with her mother, who was born in 1974, grew up in the Roe era, with abortion as the law of the land. Presumably, the “right” to abortion has been as normal to them as going to church on Sunday or watching college sports on Saturday is normal for other Americans.

And so, women born in the Roe era might debate whether or not abortion was morally right, but there would be no debate as to whether a woman could legally choose to abort. That was a given. The fear and dread now experienced by two generations of Roe era, pro-abortion women has been palpable since the overturning of Roe in 2022. How can this be happening, they wonder.

As for sexual activity out of wedlock, a December 19, 2006 headline on the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute website claimed that, “Premarital Sex Is Nearly Universal Among Americans, And Has Been For Decades.” That was back in 2006.

Reflecting the morals of the moment, this is the reply I received from the AI Claude when I asked, “What percentage of babies born to first time mothers in America?”

“According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2020 approximately 40.5% of all births in the United States were to unmarried mothers. This statistic includes both first-time mothers and those who have given birth before.”

Then, after explaining that “I do not have reliable data on the specific percentage of first births that are to unmarried mothers,” Claude added this caveat: 

“It's important to note that the term ‘out of wedlock’ has largely fallen out of use as it can carry judgmental connotations. Many prefer to use the more neutral term ‘unmarried mothers.’ Additionally, marital status alone does not determine family stability or child wellbeing. Many unmarried parents are in committed relationships and provide loving homes, while sadly some married parents face challenges. Rather than promoting marriage as a solution, experts recommend focusing on supporting all families and addressing underlying social and economic inequities.”

These, then, are the ethics of the day: Forget about self-control and abstinence. (Who even thinks about that?) Have all the sex you want with whomever you want. Just do it safely. And if there’s an accidental slip up? Then go to Plan B! And remember: we dare not be judgmental! As for those White supremacist, bigoted, Republican men who dare to tell us what a woman can and must do with their own bodies, this is how we push back. Young people, unite!

Let’s remember, then, to turn our moral outrage and grief over Rodrigo’s actions into prayers for this younger generation (including Rodrigo, who certainly believes she is doing good). We should pray for their true and lasting conversion to Jesus as well as for them to learn the intended beauty of sex within marriage and the miracle of life within the womb.

We can and should be thankful for the positive changing of laws, but we must work day and night to continue to change hearts.

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Love Compels Us to Drop the Transgender Terminology

Love does what’s right, even when it’s unpopular. That’s because love is driven by reality rather than perception. Love is driven by truth.

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There are people born with biological or chromosomal abnormalities who do not fit perfectly into the male-female categories. They are called intersex (more precisely, those affected by disorders of sexual development, representing .018% of the population). 

They deserve our sensitivity and compassion, but they are the exceptions who prove the rule of the gender binary. 

There are also people who, to the core of their being, feel that they are trapped in the wrong body, often experiencing internal conflict and pain for many years. 

They too deserve our sensitivity and compassion. But to call them “transgender” is to do them a disservice.

Simply stated, since transgender identity, in sharp distinction from the condition of intersex, is a psychological condition, that identity is a perception rather than a reality. Consequently, to refer to transgender identity as if it were a biological reality is to do a disservice to the sufferer, not to mention damage society as a whole and deny biological realities and gender distinctions. (Obviously, in saying this, I do not believe that, from birth, trans-identifying people have different brains than others. If that were true, then their condition would be biologically grounded after all.)

To those of you who agree with what I have stated, this is nothing new. I am simply preaching to the choir. Yet there is a reason for this preaching. (I’ll return to that shortly.)

To those of you who disagree with what I have stated, this is further proof of what you perceive as my deep-seated transphobia and religious-based bigotry. Yet you are still reading this article, so please do read on.

Let’s flesh this out for a moment in real-life terms, but using the hypothetical character Jane Doe.

Jane has been a famous actress for years, known to her followers as “she,” since, quite unambiguously, she is a woman.

But now Jane says that she identifies as a male and that, all these years, she has been suppressing her real identity. Jane is now John.

As a result, from the very moment of Jane’s announcement, before she has met with a medical professional or received any hormone treatment or had any body-altering surgery, “she” is now referred to as “he.” In fact, to fail to make the pronoun shift is an act of hatred, and on some internet platforms, it is grounds for exclusion and banning. (How dare we “deadname” or “misgender”!)

But two years later, John has had a change of heart and realizes that he is actually neither Jane nor John. He/she is now non-binary and must be referenced to as “they.” All clear! “They” it is.

But two more years down the line and “they” now realize that “they” are actually “she.” Jane is actually Jane again! Back to “she” we go, without questioning anything or wondering aloud if something might not be amiss.

Now, in cases where my hypothetical scenario is quite close to real life, my intention is not to mock or demean. It is simply to underscore that the entire “transgender” (or “non-binary”) identity of Ms.-Mr.-Mss./Messrs Doe had nothing to do with actual reality. It was entirely a matter of perception, not particularly different from those who identify as furries (part human, part animal) or those who suffer from Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID).

In each case, the feelings can be very deep and real, sometimes to the point of torment and potential (or actual) suicide and/or bodily harm.

But that doesn’t mean that, say, Dr. David Benaron, the inventor who laid the groundwork for the optical heart rate monitor on our smart watches, is actually part cheetah. (He has identified as “Spottacus” the cheetah for many years.)

And that doesn’t mean that Jewel Shuping, the BIID sufferer who blinded herself in order to keep with her lifelong perception of being sightless, was truly sightless before she destroyed her sight.

To be clear, on a personal level, I have no point of reference for the experiences of people like Benaron or Shuping, or, for that matter, people like “Caitlyn” Jenner. I cannot begin to imagine what conflicts or pain or confusion they have lived with, nor do I pretend to understand.

But that doesn’t mean for a moment that we should affirm their perceived identities.

To the contrary, the moment we affirm the outward symptoms rather than continue to look for inward cures, we do what is convenient rather than what is best. 

Not only so, but we turn biological and societal realities upside down, leading to ridiculous, oxymoronic references to things like “her male genitalia” as well as contributing to the deep-seated confusion of our children.

More significantly, we open the door to unfair practices, such as boys competing against girls in sports events. And we make possible downright dangerous social practices, such as imprisoning a biological male sex-offender who identifies as female in a women’s prison, where he proceeds to rape the female inmates.

Again, I understand that perception may feel like reality. But that does not make it reality, and it is high time that we take a stand for reality.

This means that, at the least, conservative news sites should stop using preferred gender pronouns, regardless of what professional guidelines call for. 

It’s time to buck the system. (It would be great if all news sites stopped using such terminology, but obviously, those who affirm transgender identity would have no reason to do so.)

It also means that those of us who share my convictions should no longer refer to someone as, say, “a transgender male” but rather as a woman who identifies as a man. If we do use the “trans” word at all, it should be in the phrase “trans-identifying.” That’s because transgender, as a distinct biological reality, simply does not exist. 

The sooner we accept this reality, the better.

I personally believe that, in the not too distant future, society as a whole will recognize this to be true. Why not, then, do the right thing today rather than simply swim with the tide when things shift in the years ahead? That’s what compromisers do. 

People of courage and conviction do the right thing today, regardless of cost or consequences.

And we can do this while working to help those struggling with these deep internal conflicts and while showing them love on an individual level, even if they are put off by our style of communication.

Love does what’s right, even when it’s unpopular.

That’s because love is driven by reality rather than perception. Love is driven by truth.

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The War on Our Children is Even Worse Than We Know

How can you not feel a righteous indignation along with a deep stab of pain after reading these words? How does one describe medical malpractice on this scale? Hundreds of minors have had their perfectly healthy, fully functioning, genitals removed because they were experiencing emotional confusion? But it gets worse...

The War on Our Children is Even Worse Than We Know | Articles | AskDrBrown

I’m going to omit a few words from the opening sentence of an article posted by the UK’s Christian Voice in order to drill home a point. 

The first sentence reads, “Parents in Hull have withdrawn their . . . daughter from . . . school over inappropriate content in Relationships and Sex Education.” 

And what, exactly, did these parents find “inappropriate”?

“The decision follows their discovery that the school was using a book entitled ‘Grandad’s Pride.’ The pro-gay propaganda book carries illustrations of homosexual men wearing next to nothing and women posing as men who have undergone surgical mutilation.”

It is for good reason that these parents pulled their kid out of school. Of course content like this is inappropriate for children. 

What clear-thinking adult would think that exposing young people to “illustrations of homosexual men wearing next to nothing” was a positive and appropriate thing to do?

Perhaps she was middle school age, so somewhere between 11-13? (Obviously, content like this would not be shown to younger children, right?) Or maybe she was in high school, aged 14-18? 

The opening sentence of the article reads (with my emphasis here), “Parents in Hull have withdrawn their four-year-old daughter from pre-school over inappropriate content in Relationships and Sex Education.”

Yes, this garbage was being foisted on four-year-olds. What kind of madness is this? 

And how is this not a form of child abuse?

Eventually, the school withdrew the book, apologizing to the parents, but only after defending it initially. As for the publisher, Anderson Press, Christian Voice reports that they are standing strong behind the book and its award-winning gay author, Harry Woodgate: “The publisher described critics’ concerns of ‘hidden messages’ in the book depicting a grandad wearing leathers for ‘Pride’ as ‘baseless, deeply offensive and homophobic.’”

Yes, this was one of the images in the book, that of an older man (a grandad, no less) dressed up in a bondage outfit, all for “Pride.” Concerns about the appropriateness of this for little children were ‘baseless, deeply offensive and homophobic.’”

Once again, this is a classic case of calling evil good and good evil.

As for the transgender images, in some ways these are even more reprehensible. That’s because they help further the gender confusion many kids are experiencing today, not because they are innately confused but rather because they are being confused by the society, from social media to TV and movies to the schools. 

And what is the result of this inexcusable assault on innocent little children – in this case, a school sponsored assault on pre-schoolers? 

Writing for the Daily Signal, Tyler O’Neil reports, 

“a new study estimates that more than 3,000 minors underwent transgender surgeries in a five-year period, and more than 400 of them had their genitals removed.”

How can you not feel a righteous indignation along with a deep stab of pain after reading these words? 

How does one describe medical malpractice on this scale? 

Hundreds of minors have had their perfectly healthy, fully functioning, genitals removed because they were experiencing emotional confusion? But it gets worse.

“The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study Wednesday estimating that 48,019 Americans underwent ‘gender-affirming surgeries‘ from 2016 to 2020, and 3,678 of them underwent surgery between ages 12 and 18.

In the study, Columbia University researchers estimated that 3,215 of those minors underwent ‘breast/chest surgery’ and 405 of them underwent ‘genital surgery.’ Meanwhile, 350 underwent ‘other cosmetic procedures.’”

So, 3,215 girls – minors! – had their breasts removed, along with the 405 who underwent “genital surgery.”

This is surgical barbarism, and no amount of special pleading or intellectual sophistry can justify these procedures. As the heralded Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Dr. Paul McHugh stated to me in an email on November 18, 2009, 

“I hold that interfering medically or surgically with the natural development of young people claiming to be ‘transgendered’ is a form of child abuse.”

Add to this the programming of impressionable, innocent children, helping them believe they are trans, and the mountain of guilt grows higher still.

Tragically, nothing I wrote here is either new or surprising for those of us who have been tracking these issues for years. 

But as this assault on our children continues apace, all of us must continue to raise our voices in protest – be it at the school level or in our vigilance as parents or in the courts of law or in the halls of Congress. 

It’s the least we can do for these little ones. 

As Jesus said, “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6)

As for the tiny percentage of children who suffer from gender dysphoria, the best science, along with common sense, tells us not to sterilize or mutilate them as minors. 

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Procedures like this could one day give lobotomies a good name: I do my best not to overstate things, but what else can this be called but surgical barbarism?! By “this” I’m referring not only to the genital mutilation of children (in the name of compassionate, transitioning care) but also to “gender nullification” surgery for adults...

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I do my best not to overstate things, but what else can this be called but surgical barbarism?!  

By “this” I’m referring not only to the genital mutilation of children (in the name of compassionate, transitioning care) but also to “gender nullification” surgery for adults.

The bad news, of course, is that here in the USA, the push to mutilate and sterilize children continues apace, urged on by the Biden administration. 

Some of this is driven by misplaced compassion and some of it (most of it?) is driven by greed. 

Procedures like this could one day give lobotomies a good name... 

An Insidious Attack on Our Nation’s Youth

I look at these kids as victims far more than as perpetrators. Had they been raised in a different environment, the vast majority of them would not be struggling with obesity or being overweight today...

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Did you know that, “A new study from the Pentagon shows that 77% of young Americans would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, using drugs or having mental and physical health problems”?

Yes, more than three out of every four Americans aged 17-24 would be ineligible for military service. 

Is this not a crisis – not so much for the military – but for these young people themselves?

“When considering youth disqualified for one reason alone, the most prevalent disqualification rates are overweight (11%), drug and alcohol abuse (8%), and medical/physical health (7%).”

These statistics raise serious concerns on many fronts. 

But let’s focus here on the subject of kids being overweight today.

According to the CDC, “Childhood obesity is a serious problem in the United States, putting children and adolescents at risk for poor health.”

Yet this reflects the environment in which these kids are being raised even more than it reflects their own choices. After all, if there’s not unhealthy food in the house, kids will not be eating as much unhealthy food. This is especially true for younger kids who do not have access to outside choices.

And if there was more careful parental supervision (or, better parental examples being set), these kids would not be permitted to (or, worse still, encouraged) to overeat.

That’s what makes this major health problem all the more tragic. 

“For the first time ever, more than 1 in 5 American kids is obese.

“From 2011 to 2012 and again from 2017 to 2020, rates of obesity rose for kids between 2 and 5 years of age as well as 12- to 19-year-olds, a new analysis of nationwide health survey data shows. And the uptick was true for U.S. kids of every race and ethnic background, according to study leader Amanda Staiano.”

As for the percentage of American kids who are overweight, that is obviously much higher than those who qualify as being obese (including almost one in 10 who are extremely obese). 

“What is even more alarming is these data were all collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and other data published recently show that kids are gaining even more weight because of restrictions to their diet and activity during the pandemic.”

As for the health risks associated with obesity, especially beginning in childhood, they include “some cancers,” along with “diabetes, heart disease, asthma, joint problems, anxiety and depression.” 

“Kids are bearing the cost of this disease, and adults are paying for the added health care costs of kids growing up with diseases and needing treatment. Kids who aren't eating nutritious diets tend to perform worse in school, and so obesity affects every area of a child's life.”

Just this week, the Daily Mail shared details of a study published in the journal Nature Communications. It “showed that 18 out of the 26 cancers examined are linked to being overweight or obese as a young adult. . . . The risk was found to be notably higher the longer someone is overweight or obese as a young adult.”

A May 2023 article from the UK actually stated that, 

“The number of children and teens undergoing weight loss surgeries to treat their obesity has nearly doubled in recent years.”

Yet, to repeat, almost all of this is totally unnecessary, being the direct result of choices that are being made – although, to repeat, I look at these kids as victims far more than as perpetrators. Had they been raised in a different environment, the vast majority of them would not be struggling with obesity or being overweight today.

To be absolutely clear, though, I’m the last one to condemn another person for unhealthy eating. As some of you know, I was the poster boy for unhealthy eating for much of the first 59 years of my life. 

I had Oreos for breakfast as a boy and had a hamburger and fries at least 5 days a week while in middle school. I ate pizza daily for years and was a serious chocoholic. And as I got older, I was overweight, at times even obese.

Thankfully, the Lord graciously intervened in 2014, and I have followed a radical, plant-based diet ever since. 

As I have often shared, it has been gloriously life transforming. (The book my wife and I wrote on our journeys is titled Breaking the Stronghold of Food: How We Conquered Food Addictions and Discovered a New Way of Living.)

So, once again, I am the last one to be critical of others, especially kids. And I’m certainly glad that these kids are not starving themselves (especially the girls), becoming anorexic in the process. I’m also glad that less of them feel the pressure of having “perfect” bodies (again, especially the girls), although I’m sure that pressure remains for many.

I’m simply bringing attention to the fact that great, lasting harm is being done to our kids today, some of it irreversible, and it is all so unneeded. 

We do not have to be slaves to the American diet and the American lifestyle. 

And if God could help someone like me – a lifelong unhealthy eater, and my wife Nancy, a self-confessed former glutton – make radical changes, He can help anyone.

Can I at least ask each parent (and young person) reading this article to take a minute and read this report about a relevant, eye-opening lecture by Dr. Joel Fuhrman? Speaking in 2017 about the standard American diet, Dr. Fuhrman said, “This diet couldn’t be better designed if it was made by ISIS to kill us,”

And for those who want to dig deeper, would you at least read the introduction and opening chapter of his book The End of Dieting?

The earlier these healthy choices are made, the greater the chances of lifelong health and thriving, both physically and mentally.

Let’s do the right thing for our kids and grandkids (and ourselves). 

We Are All Aging Every Day, But We Can Do a Lot to Delay Getting Old

It may sound like an odd comment, but while talking with my son-in-law Ryan recently, I said to him, “Do whatever you can not to get old.” 

Ryan turns 50 in October and I turned 68 in March, so I understand that neither of us are kids anymore. And of course, I recognize that every day that we live we get older, and so, a long life means an old life.

I also realize that there are many virtues that can be found in old age.

There is accumulated wisdom. There is a lifetime of experiences. There is the joy of seeing multiple generations of children (both physical children and spiritual children).

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It may sound like an odd comment, but while talking with my son-in-law Ryan recently, I said to him, “Do whatever you can not to get old.” 

Ryan turns 50 in October and I turned 68 in March, so I understand that neither of us are kids anymore. And of course, I recognize that every day that we live we get older, and so, a long life means an old life.

I also realize that there are many virtues that can be found in old age.

There is accumulated wisdom. There is a lifetime of experiences. There is the joy of seeing multiple generations of children (both physical children and spiritual children).

That’s why the Bible says that, “Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained by the way of righteousness” (Proverbs 16:31). 

And as much as we often say that it is a young person’s world today, in biblical culture, the aged were to be revered: “You shall rise before the aged and show deference to the old; you shall fear your God: I am the LORD” (Leviticus 19:32).

I even wrote recently that one of the unexpected joys of growing older is that you get to see more prayers answered, some of which you have prayed for decades. The more years you live, the more you get to see God’s faithfulness!

At the same time, we often grow old prematurely, by which I mean become decrepit and weak, quite unnecessarily. We don’t take proper care of our bodies, either by overwork or neglect. And for the most part, especially here in America, we do not give our bodies the proper fuel they need to run at optimum levels, thereby hastening the aging process.

It does not have to be that way. I can testify firsthand.

Without any exaggeration, I can honestly say that I am far more fit, far more vibrant, far more energetic today, at the age of 68, than I was at the age of 59. Far more.

Nine years ago, I weighed as much as 275 pounds. I had high blood pressure. I had several headaches a week. I had constant lower back pain. I often felt groggy during the day. Yet I worked out regularly and was not a glutton.

On the other hand, I was a lifelong, unhealthy eater. And I mean lifelong.

I was a chocaholic and, if there is such a thing, a pizzaholic.

I had to eat chocolate every day, normally several times a day. I craved unhealthy foods. And even though I never ate whatever I wanted to all day and night, I was addicted to unhealthy foods. That is a plain fact.

Ironically, I was extremely self-controlled in virtually every other area of life, keeping a very intense schedule and having to make sacrificial choices for the sake of ministry on a regular basis.

But the food addictions prevailed, despite my moderation. (By “moderation,” I mean this. If I was going to have a chocolate Extreme Blizzard at Dairy Queen – alone about 1,500 calories! – I would skip lunch or dinner to make up for that. The same with a Five Guys burger with a mountain of fries. That would take the place of two meals.)

I did try to avoid fried foods most of the time. And I limited my intake of red meat (a little). But, to say it once more, I flooded my body with unhealthy foods, as a result of which I was both cutting my life short and reducing the quality of my life.

By God’s grace, and in answer to the prayers of my wife Nancy, my own prayers, and the prayers of others, I was able to make a radical lifestyle change starting August 2014.

A little grilled meat (normally chicken) about once a week.

No salt, and in general, very low sodium.

A massive daily intake of raw, unprocessed, plant-based foods, along with lots of fruits and some organic, raw nuts and seeds.

As I’ve shared before, in less than 8 months, I went from 275 pounds to 180 pounds, weighing about 182 today. And by God’s grace (I mean that from the heart; He graciously intervened in my life), this is how I live, without exception. 

As a result, I feel as if I’m getting younger every year (despite my very gray, thinning hair!). And, to repeat, while I’m not boasting about tomorrow, I feel as if I’m just getting started, functioning with the zeal and passion of a man in his 20s or 30s.

After my recent blood tests, which required 13 vials of blood and yielded almost 30 pages of data, my doctor told me that I’m in the top 0.05 percent of men my age. I am thankful to the Lord beyond words!

Eating like this (Nancy and I wholeheartedly follow the recommendations of Dr. Joel Fuhrman; see his book The End of Dieting), you can reverse heart disease as well as many other conditions (including Type 2 diabetes).

Generally speaking, I take no medications, and for almost a decade now, my blood pressure has been excellent. In fact, after my last visit to a vascular surgeon (to check on a condition that arose prior to my lifestyle change), he exclaimed, “Your circulation is really strong and your blood pressure is perfect.”

Is it challenging to make such a radical lifestyle change? Absolutely. Is it easy? Absolutely not.

But with God’s help, once you break free from the addictions and retrain your body and your mind, it’s a delight, a joy, a celebration. And as someone who travels around the world and is constantly in hotels and at restaurants, I can assure you that, with proper planning and a commitment not to fall off the wagon, you can do this.

For the sake of your families, your co-workers, your own enjoyment of life and the stewardship of your bodies before the Lord who owns you, I urge you: Do whatever you can not to get old.

(Ironically, seconds after finishing this article while flying from Atlanta to Tel Aviv, I was explaining to a flight attendant why I was eating a banana rather than another onboard snack. He confessed to me immediately that he needed to lose 40 pounds but struggled because of the American diet. I assured him that I understood, especially with all the travel too, but then encouraged him to take the radical plunge. He replied to me, “You’re an inspiration!”)

A Major Scientific Study Confirms (What We All Knew): Men ARE Different than Women

Every so often, a moment of sanity prevails in our culture, quite unintentionally. At such times, reality hits home, and most people don’t even notice it. But that’s exactly what happened with the announcement of the findings of a major scientific study. For a split second, reality overtook ideology, as left-leaning journalists shared the results of this study without thinking through the implications...

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Every so often, a moment of sanity prevails in our culture, quite unintentionally. 

At such times, reality hits home, and most people don’t even notice it. But that’s exactly what happened with the announcement of the findings of a major scientific study. 

For a split second, reality overtook ideology, as left-leaning journalists shared the results of this study without thinking through the implications.

I’m referring to the news, first reported widely on Fortune.com that, “Women are more empathetic than men, study of hundreds of thousands of people finds—at any age and in any country in the world.”

In response I tweeted sarcastically, “A major new study has revealed that ‘women are more empathetic than men.’ This leads to two startling revelations: 1) there is such a thing as women and men.  2) there are real differences between women and men. What do you know!”

Yes, presupposed in this major international study, which involved 300,000 participants, is the fact that there is such a thing as males and females. 

They really exist, and their existence can be defined, despite efforts to make “woman” (and, by extension) “man” undefinable. (Think of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s now infamous answer to the “What is a woman?” question, and see Matt Walsh’s “What Is a Woman?” documentary.)

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