Thoughts and links about what it means to really be the men we were meant to be.
As with most things interwebbed, I came across this powerful post through a friend on Facebook. The author, David Mikus, reflecting on the loss of his long time love to divorce, gives some suggestions for other men wanting to go the distance in life with their mate. “Obviously, I’m not a relationship...
Read more →As I have been digging through literature on male development and masculinity, I find I return to think about the concept forwarded by Eldredge and touched on by other authors: that those men who grow up with a stunted or damaged masculinity somewhere along the way were either abused or neglected in that area...
Read more →In my efforts to try and understand the meaning of being a man, I ask questions as a Christian. Because I am a Christian, I look for answers that fit within a particular cosmology that describes the purpose and meaning of life. A cosmology is a world-view or perspective that provides suggestions as to...
Read more →Recently, I’ve returned to the question of what it means to be a man (and equally, what it means for a woman to be a woman), and so I decided I needed to skim the books in my library on the topic and in each, pull the salient points they offer about Biblical manhood...
Read more →A few summers ago when I was grieving a gal and bellyaching to my wise friend Phil about it one night, he asked me about other areas of my life, and specifically about how my work and hobbies were going. At the time, he was trying to help me turn my mind to other...
Read more →“Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk,...
Read more →Boys take, Men give. Boys criticize, Men create. Boys complain, Men solve. Boys consume, Men serve. Boys pout, Men endure. A post by John Bryson at his site, johnbryson.org. John has started a new site for men on being men that is worth checking out: authenticmanhood.com.
Read more →I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a man over the last year. Sadly, I realize I really hadn’t given this much thought throughout the earlier years of my adult life, and suddenly, now that I am smack in mid-life, I’ve started to ask the question. You know, you get...
Read more →When I got up on Saturday morning (sorta early), I went to see my friend Brad, and we talked. I hadn’t seen Brad for probably 2 months, and so I hadn’t talked to him since before Christmas and New Years and Kwanza and my mom’s birthday. Brad looked great, and yet the same to...
Read more →On this holiday, some thoughts on courage by Martin Luther King, Jr. “Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity...
Read more →On the Desiring God website, John Piper sits down with Doug Wilson for an interview about what it means to be a man. This interview is broken into several excerpts. In this excerpt, Piper asks Wilson what it means to be masculine. In short, Wilson says the hallmark of a man is this: Men...
Read more →I heard some tough news this week. I learned earlier this week about a long-time acquaintance and highly-regarded man in the local church community who had left his wife of thirty years to run off with another woman. This man ran two prominent and successful Christian bookstores here in town over the years and,...
Read more →Some thoughts on manhood in the wake of Ashton Kutcher’s dangerous liaison. Of most importance to me is their suggestion that part of being a man is being there. Be there when you need to be. Article Link
Read more →“Every man, at some point in his life, is going to lose a battle. He’s gonna fight and he’s gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.” ~ Coach Eric Taylor, Dillon Panthers A caveat to this is that every man,...
Read more →We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way… ~ Isaiah 53:6 Joe Carter, in his article “Thoughts on the Penn State Scandal” at First Things, collects words from several other writers who have tried to make sense of the moral failures that have brought Paterno’s house...
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