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Should You Pay Your Kids to Tweet? On Social Media Addiction
A couple of days back, Jon Acuff–laugh-out-loud writer and author of Stuff Christians Like–wrote a post on how to manage social media use as a father. Acuff wrote the post in a whimsical style but ended up recommending that dads … Continue reading
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What a Young Husband Ought to Know
Interesting post from First Things on an old book about what young husbands should know (What a Young Husband Ought to Know (1897, link has free ebook thanks to Scott Lamb) by Lutheran pastor Sylvanus Stall). Here’s a bit of … Continue reading
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The “Dad Mom” and the “Man Fail”
The cultural decline of men continues apace. Tide detergent, of all cultural voices, is leading the charge today. Watch “Dad Mom” here (I can’t tell if Tide changed the title due to backlash–it used to be “Dad Mom”). These are … Continue reading
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Men, Temptation, and the Gospel
Harvey Mansfield, Harvard professor of politics and 2011 Bradley Prize winner, just wrote a provocative piece on the distinctive characteristics and faults of men for The Weekly Standard. It’s entitled “Manliness and Morality” and I commend it to you. Several … Continue reading
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An Essential Talk by Bruce Ware on Manhood
The following was just posted at the blog of The Gospel Coalition: Theologian Bruce Ware just gave a noteworthy talk on godly manhood at his church, Clifton Baptist Church of Louisville, Kentucky. The talk was entitled “Select Principles on Being … Continue reading
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Book Reviews: Chabon on Men, Crawford on Work
Time for one of my favorite things to do: briefly review books. It’s tough to do this in the midst of the academic semester. I’ve got two critically acclaimed bestsellers for you today, each of which I review in summary … Continue reading
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Women Fighting, and Men Doing Little About it
I have been shocked of late to find two videos showing women enacting brutality against one another. Femininity is a contested sphere nowadays, both literally and figuratively. First, I came across a video of a recent fight between women in … Continue reading
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The Lost Wilderness of Childhood
The provocative writer Michael Chabon recently published a marvelous essay called “Manhood for Amateurs” on the loss of what he calls the “Wilderness of Childhood” in the New York Review of Books. In the piece, Chabon muses on the ways … Continue reading
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The Link 6.19.2009
1. Mark Driscoll and Rick Melson discuss the new Resurgence training center. Cool training model. Some of the profs featured in it are to the right (in case you couldn’t tell). 2. W. Bradford Wilcox of National Review has a … Continue reading
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What Makes a Man? Not “Low-Slung Pants”
From a NYT article on “low-slung pants”: “Mayor Thomas Masters, a Baptist minister, said in an interview that Riviera Beach voters “just got tired of having to look at people’s behinds or their undergarments,” but the public defenders argued that … Continue reading
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