Comments on: Stronger men? Let’s not dish up lazy male stereotypes in the name of Jesus

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 04 May 2018 13:19:18 +0000

In reply to Michael Frost. You can rant all day long and it's not going to change the fact that you wrote a knee jerk rant about a 2 day conference for men based on a 2 minute teaser video without taking even a moment to analyze the actual substance of the conference. That rush to judgment clearly illustrates the lack of intellect that actually goes into your writing. #blogpostfortheclickbaitfactory

By: Michael Frost

Michael Frost — Fri, 04 May 2018 12:00:55 +0000

In reply to Dan. I used the teaser the conference produced to attract registrations to contort (did you mean distort?) what the conference was really about??!? That's nuts. That promo/teaser was how the organisers wanted the event to be seen and it served as a very useful object lesson in what constitutes real strength.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 02 May 2018 20:44:14 +0000

The video is a “teaser”, not a representation of the conference as a whole. If you did your due diligence and took a moment to examine the substance of the conference you would already know that. Instead, you used the teaser to contort the truth about what the conference really is about and spit out another blog post for the click bait factory. It’s consistent with typical sensationalism and yellow journalism. So no, I wasted enough time reading the post the first time and it’s not necessary to read it again. The conference opener from 2018 isn’t online yet but the opener from last year addresses specifically what your April 5 rant was about.
https://youtu.be/1XaNBQckPCQ

By: Michael Frost

Michael Frost — Wed, 02 May 2018 20:21:28 +0000

In reply to Dan. You do get what *promo* video means, right? It's a taste of the event to come. It's how the organisers want to represent the event. As for substance, I think there's plenty there about how men are represented on film, what the Bible says about masculinity and the example of Jesus. You might want to reread it to pick up on some of that stuff. Or you could just keep over-reacting.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 May 2018 21:33:22 +0000

In reply to Michael Frost. There is no substance in the post. You bashed a 2 day conference based on a <2 minute video promo before the conference even took place. Zero substance.

By: Michael Frost

Michael Frost — Tue, 01 May 2018 21:22:22 +0000

In reply to Dan. Your hubris and the name-calling simply illustrates the kind of male aggression I fear is being encouraged by events like Stronger Men. It's not "stronger" to call people cowboys and clowns while ignoring the substance of the post you're reacting to.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:04:24 +0000

In reply to Michael Frost. Your ignorance abounds. What will the clowns in the click-bait factory come up with next?

By: Michael Frost

Michael Frost — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:11:14 +0000

In reply to Dan. Your attitude only confirms my suspicions.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:37:39 +0000

This post completely misses the mark and so do all of the comments that support the writers opinion. Of course I would expect just that from a bunch of keyboard cowboys who formulate their entire opinion of a 2 day men’s conference that draws over 8,000 men together for an encounter with Christ on a 2 minute video. The substance of the conference is quite contrary to the aforementioned criticism. If you came to the conference because you thought MMA fighting, monster trucks, and guns made men “stronger”, you learned a valuable lesson there. Try getting into the substance before you take a stab at something.

By: Ada

Ada — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 19:30:02 +0000

I also want to point out that the “Stronger Men’s Conference” shows a limited view of strength – namely, physical strength (and maybe will power to dominate others.)
Yet physical strength is scarcely the only or best type of strength there is. Mike points this out using various examples in the post. There’s emotional strength, such has having the strength to forgive someone who has wronged you, gentleness, which is control of your strength, intelligence, and teaching others so they can become stronger and better themselves.
And physical strength won’t help you in times of doubt, when you have to cling to your faith and remember all the reasons why God is true and exists, even as all your thoughts and feelings try to convince you otherwise.