Anthony Bradley has another amazing post here about how we are programming boys to grow up and mainly value three things:
1. Athletic Ability
2. Sexual Conquest
3. Economic Success
Doesn't exactly seem like a biblical picture of masculinity, right? I would agree. As a Dad of a young boy I found his post extrememly enlightening and instructive for my parenting.
1 comment:
Personally I found this article to be bitter and angry...not compassionate and sharing the truth in love...furthermore not very helpful. This kind of ranting happens way to much in "good theology" circles. Why can't folks who are analytical, and see problems in the church point it out in humility, compassion and love instead of angst.
I understand what the writer was saying, but there has got to be a better way to communicate it. Also...the the descriptor "feminization" shouldn't be used so much that it becomes an actual insult the feminine (namel women).
There are problems in the church...no doubt...I'm aware that our culture and many churches don't teach boys how to become men, but I hardly found THIS article edifying...just complaining and tearing down. Creating division. And painting a few ministries with disrespectfully wide strokes. Generalizing like this is not helpful...it's what the Emergent Church often does...and in response I and others do the same to them.
Thought provoking article though.
In Christ
Noah
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