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The Books and Authors That Most Influenced The 5 Masculine Instincts:

The 5 Masculine Instincts is full of the books that have impacted me over the last decade of reading. I’ve gathered up a list of some of the books and…

Shakespeare’s Seven Stages of a Man: Recognizing the Five Masculine Instincts

Men are not all the same. I see it as a pastor, as a brother, and as a dad. What motivates one man puts another to sleep. What one man…

The Essential Masculine Virtue: Finding The Strength Between Aggression and Disengagement

The Bible warns of man’s tendency to over-identify with his impulses of aggression and passivity, a topic I’ve explored at length in a previous article. But the Bible is also careful not to present these traits as mere personality types…

The Two Ditches of Toxic Masculinity: Noah and The True Complexity of What is Wrong With Men

I’m aware; toxic masculinity is a phrase of extreme controversy. Wrapped up in the phrase are hotly debated ideologies, fueled by very different perspectives on what a man is and should be…

A Good (Definition of) Man Is Hard to Find: How We Define Manhood and Masculinity

The past years have seen a massive spike in debates, articles, and books on the topic of masculinity, most centered around a call to redefine what masculinity means. What does it mean to be a man…

Why Every Millennial Man Should Reread The Samson Story: I like to imagine him in Ray-Bans, a man bun, and a CrossFit t-shirt, hiking through...

“The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of…

The Male Malaise: Why Confusion About Masculinity is Causing Too Many Men to Disengage and Check Out

Last week I got my hair cut. My barbershop has been feverishly adding locations and rebranding itself in an attempt to monopolize the cutting of all men’s hair within a…

God Honors Excellence But I’m Allergic to Meat: And Yes, You Read That Correctly

Can you imagine Ron Swanson waking up to discover he was suddenly allergic to meat? No steaks, no brats, no bacon, no cheeseburgers. Can you imagine his reaction? It would…

Watching Game of Thrones: Our Missing Theologies for Understanding It

When season eight of Game of Thrones (GOT) premiered this year, HBO estimated that 17.4 million viewers were watching. Considering GOT is one of the most pirated shows in history,…