Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast
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Peter unites intellect, wisdom, curiosity, and empathy —
Writing at the crossroads of faith, philosophy, and freedom —
Confronting confusion with clarity —
Guiding readers toward courage, conviction, and renewal —
With love, grace, and truth.
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Taught to Expect, Not to Honor
Modern society has trained women to expect everything and to honor nothing. They are raised to know what they want but not to know what they owe. They are told to list their standards but never to build the strength required to meet someone else’s. The result is a generation fluent in demands but illiterate in duty. Love cannot survive when one side learns only to expect while the other learns only to give.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
The One-Way Street of Modern Love
Modern relationships were supposed to be built on equality, but what we call equality has become one-sided. Men are taught to give, to serve, to protect, and to love unconditionally. Women are taught to expect those things and to measure a man’s worth by how perfectly he provides them. Men are conditioned to earn love. Women are conditioned to receive it. The result is not partnership but imbalance—a one-way street where the traffic of sacrifice flows in only one direction.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
The Corruption of Childhood Innocence: How Modern Media Helped Rewrite the Family and the Iconic Berenstain Bears
There was a time when The Berenstain Bears stood for something good. It was a series that helped children understand responsibility, honesty, humility, and faith in simple, practical ways. The lessons were gentle and timeless. Papa Bear could be silly, but was never degraded. Mama Bear was steady, but without being domineering. Together they modeled respect, teamwork, and the kind of family order that reflected biblical truth: the father leads as the head, the mother respects and nurtures, and the children yield and learn.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Families
The Half-Finished Race
People often say that women mature faster than men. In one sense they do, but that advantage is temporary. If maturity were a marathon, women would sprint the first half and cross the midpoint far ahead. They would celebrate as if the race were over. Men would lag behind, slower at first, but they would keep running. They would finish the second half while many of the early sprinters stood still. That second half of the race, the one built on endurance, sacrifice, and humility, is where real adulthood begins.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
(Part 2) To the Man I Was at 19: A Letter from You - 12 Years Wiser (What God Was Doing All Along)
Hey, You spent so much time wondering where God was in all of it. What you did not see then was that He was never far. Every moment you felt overlooked or misunderstood, He was guiding you through lessons that cannot be taught by comfort. You were not abandoned; you were being equipped.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Confessions
(Part 1) To the Man I Was at 19: A Letter from You - 12 Years Wiser
Hey, You don’t realize it now, but the way you feel everything so strongly is not a flaw. It is proof that your heart works exactly as it should. You care deeply, you hurt deeply, and you see the world through empathy before logic. That is not weakness. It is the foundation of the man you will become.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Confessions
(Part 2) The Nature of Faithfulness: Why Men and Women Fail Differently and Love the Same
If the first truth of love is difference, the second is duty. What reason can describe, revelation can redeem. Part I examined the divided mind of desire through the lens of logic and biology. Part II turns to the deeper reality beneath them: pride. Every failure of love, whether male or female, begins in pride. Pride blinds the mind, corrupts the will, and destroys the capacity to sacrifice. It is the single force that can turn God’s design of complementarity into conflict.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
(Part 1) The Nature of Faithfulness: Why Men and Women Fail Differently and Love the Same
Every man and woman desires love, but they do not experience love in the same way. The human heart is one, yet the human mind is divided by design. Men and women think, feel, and attach differently. That difference is not a flaw in nature. It is a pattern that reflects purpose. Ignoring it does not create equality. It only breeds resentment.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
Freedom Without Consequence: The Lie That Destroyed the Family
Modern society claims to champion equality, but when it comes to parenthood, the system could not be more unequal. The law grants women near-total control over reproduction while holding men accountable for outcomes they cannot influence. This imbalance has produced not just unfair laws, but a moral double standard that punishes responsibility and excuses recklessness.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Families
(Conclusion) The Collapse of Duty: Reclaiming the Moral Order Between Men and Women
Every empire believes it will last forever. Every culture believes it can defy the laws that brought it into being. Yet the law of God is not subject to human approval. It is written into the very fabric of creation. Truth does not fade when nations fall. It remains, waiting for men and women humble enough to return to it.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
(Part 6) The Collapse of Duty: Reclaiming the Moral Order Between Men and Women
The strength of a nation is not measured by its armies or its wealth. It is measured by the integrity of its people. A civilization does not fall when enemies invade from without, but when corruption rots it from within. The weight of civilization rests not on governments, but on homes. And the weight of the home rests on the hearts of men and women who either honor truth or abandon it.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
(Part 5) The Collapse of Duty: Reclaiming the Moral Order Between Men and Women
Every collapse begins in the heart. Every restoration begins there too. The world has tried to rebuild itself through politics, technology, and revolution, but none of those can heal what is broken in the human soul. No law can teach humility. No government can legislate love. The only power that can restore what pride has destroyed is self-sacrifice.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
