Kimberly Cook was a radical feminist turned Catholic theologian. She pulls from her past experience, knowledge of the truth, and wisdom to know the difference!
Kimberly has a background in Mental Health and a Masters in Systematic Theology. Her two most recent books are a 7-Week Marriage Workbook focusing on the virtues: My Hand In Yours Our Hands In His, and a 40-Day Devotional for Single Catholic Women: Into the Wilderness.
She is a wife and mother of four – which means she’s constantly working on her own virtue!
Find her at KimberlyCook.me
The Dignity of Women podcast focuses on reclaiming femininity in the modern age. It challenges feminist viewpoints and the objectification of persons.
The Dignity of Women calls us to higher virtue and nobility of character, so that men must aspire to be worthy of us, and that through Christ, beauty will save the world.
The Dignity of Women podcast focuses on reclaiming femininity in the modern age. It challenges feminist viewpoints and the objectification of persons.
The Dignity of Women calls us to higher virtue and nobility of character, so that men must aspire to be worthy of us, and that through Christ, beauty will save the world.
Nathaniel Binversie
Best known for his work as the original Director of Content for Exodus 90, Nathaniel has now tested his education with over 10 years of professional ministry experience. The majority of his career has been focused on the formation of adult and young adult men. He has served as director of mission teams, consultant to ministries around the world, launched a non-profit ministry, and authored a children’s book.
During his time at Exodus 90 he re-wrote the Exodus 90 Spiritual Exercise then crafted a formative content road map for men that transformed Exodus 90 from a single offering ministry into a three-year formation house for men with an industry leading 27 Spiritual Exercises. Having spoken in six different countries, and three continents, frequent speaking engagements around the United States took Nathaniel and his missionary family on the road full time in 2021. After two and a half years of speaking and traveling in an RV, Nathaniel and his family returned to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Active members of their local church and neighborhood community, Nathaniel and his wife Sherry have four joyful girls with hearts for mission. If you can’t find Nathaniel and his family in Indiana, they either are back on the road speaking or making a retreat to one of their favorite spots in the Rocky Mountains to ski, hike, and encounter our Lord in the grandeur and solitude of the alpine.
Exodus 90
“For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1)
It is normal for us as men to be distracted, addicted, and enslaved by so many things today. Alcohol. Pornography. Social media. Sports. Gambling. Work. Comparison. Achievement. Wealth. Legacy. It is so normal, in fact, that society’s stereotypes of men are often associated with the very idols that plague us.
What is uncommon in our time is men who are free. A free man is not a perfect man who has it all together, but one who remembers who he is: a son of God whom God has called forth for love. And he knows how much more he can become by the power of grace unfolding in his life over time, and with the support of brothers.
Through contemplative prayer, we open up to a vulnerable relationship with God. Through asceticism, we grow in the power to say “no” to the common things of the world that hold us back. Through fraternity, we have the essential support, encouragement, and mercy of other men striving after the same uncommon ideals.
The world defines freedom as the ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want, with whomever you want. True freedom is for commitment, sacrifice, and love. Like Jesus on the Cross, the free man takes up his life and then lays it down for others. What is returned to him is a life of integration, meaning, and eternal satisfaction.
Asceticism
Asceticism means training. Though it is often underemphasized in our time, throughout Church history we see the importance of asceticism in the teachings and lives of the saints, our fathers in the faith.
Asceticism is about saying “no” to lesser things so that we are able to say “yes” when God asks greater things from us. Though we should strive to reject evil in every instance, we should also abstain from good things for periods of time so that we can remain focused on what matters most in our lives.
Asceticism is not about proving something to yourself, showing that you are strong enough to others, or earning God’s grace. Exodus 90 is not a spiritual marathon or another secular men’s challenge. Exodus 90 is a spiritual exercise crafted for you to become uncommonly free for the love that God has called you to. And these ninety days are just the beginning of a new, more free way of life.
Acts of asceticism break us down in order to open us up to God. They should not lead to a puffed-up chest so much as a bowed-down head in prayer. Through the ascetic way, we are humbled. By denying ourselves, we learn to depend upon God for everything and to ask our brothers for prayerful accountability, support, and encouragement.
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