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Masculinity in a Spray Can? The Call for Men in Today’s Church

What is that makes a boy become a man?  Is it the accoutrements he purchases or the people he associates with?  While some external factors make a difference in rearing a young man, boys don’t become men by dousing themselves with strong smelling deo ...

February 4, 2010

Men and the Economic Downturn

When a recession hits a nation, the effects are felt at all levels of society.  Relationships, governments, and institutions are all subject to radical change.  And no institution is more subject to being deeply affected by a recession than that of t ...

January 26, 2010

NewsNote: Seen But Not Heard?

Whatever happened to being seen but not heard? Diana West asks that question in a recent essay, noting that there has been a massive shift in Western culture away from adult authority and toward the "wise child." All around us are signs that authorit ...

January 22, 2010

NewsNote: Naughty Rodents — Your Brain without Dad

Do children need fathers? Fascinating research on that question is reported by Shirley S. Wang of The Wall Street Journal. Anna Katherina Braun, a German biologist, has been working with colleagues to understand the biological impact of single parent ...

November 3, 2009

Calling Young Men to the Mission Field

Are young men concerned about missions?  The call to the mission field is being answered by the Church, but the majority of people answering that call are women.  Where are the young men?  The gospel calls people into the Church to be fed by the bles ...

October 8, 2009

What Do Men Want?

What makes a man a man?  What makes him happy and fulfilled in this life?  Maureen Dowd has written recently on the trends of happiness amongst women, and her story raises interesting questions about what makes men feel happy and fulfilled.  On today ...

October 2, 2009

America's long war over abortion has classically been defined as a struggle between competing rights -- depicted as the right of a woman to have an abortion versus the right of an unborn child to the protection of life. This long-familiar framing of ...

August 17, 2009

Biblical Pattern of Male Leadership Limits Pastorate to Men

The Christian church has experienced a massive wave of change over the last thirty years, and the emergence of women in some pulpits is perhaps the most visible sign of that change. Why would Southern Baptists resist this trend? The easiest co ...

July 16, 2009

God, Country, and the Culture War: The Boy Scouts Under Assault

America's parents are about to discover that the culture war is a lot closer than they thought. The ruling of the New Jersey Supreme Court ordering the Boy Scouts to accept homosexuals as members and troop leaders is an open assault upon one of ...

July 14, 2009

Debunking the Myths of Fatherhood

Fatherhood is incredibly important and has the power to give life or death to children. What makes a man a good father? At the intersection of Scripture and culture, there is conflict between what the world says a father should be like, and how the B ...

June 19, 2009

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