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"Women were not kept at home in order to keep them narrow; on the contrary, they were kept at home in order to keep them broad. The world outside the home was one mass of narrowness, a maze of cramped paths, a madhouse of monomaniacs. It was only by partly limiting and protecting the woman that she was enabled to play at five or six professions and so come almost as near to God as the child when he plays at a hundred trades." -Chesterton

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I just spoke to a man on the phone who reached out after seeing this book advertised by Canon Press. We'd never met before. He reached out because the title grabbed his attention and he wanted to share his experience with me. He told me he's in a church where the pastor is a gifted expositor of scripture but has some views that are troubling to him. His pastor teaches that suffering and retreat are the Christian's default posture. He believes * The Christian's primary duty in life is to suffer * If someone were attacking his family he would not use force to protect them * Christians should generally stay out of politics * The church's only responsibility to culture is to do evangelism That's close to word-for-word what he told me. Every one of those beliefs is false and constitutes what I call loser theology. I could tell the man on the other end of the phone is a man of courage. But his own church is telling him to sit down and be quiet. His pastor is telling him to lose on earth so he can be a winner in heaven. He seemed relieved when I told him this is exactly what my book is about. I told him he's not alone and there are plenty of solid believers out there who want to be equipped for courage, not pressured to opt out. They're tired of being told they should just lose and feel good about it. This is who I wrote the book for.