masculinity
The best books of 2022
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 27, 2022
They piled up on my nightstand, crowded my Kindle, and invaded my brain. You will love them, as well.
In ‘Boys Will Be Human,’ Justin Baldoni invites boys to ‘undefine’ masculinity
By Kathryn Post — November 10, 2022
(RNS) — ‘I wrote this book for 12-year-old Justin, for 16-year old-Justin, for 20-year-old Justin,’ the filmmaker and ‘Jane the Virgin’ star told RNS.
Why LGBTQ pride is a Jewish issue
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 20, 2022
(RNS) — The intersectionality of Jews and gays has a particular power and poignancy.
For Trump, COVID-19 is about toxic masculinity
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 6, 2020
(RNS) — Donald Trump should heed how King Hezekiah — a ‘real man’ of the Bible — handled adversity. He cried.
How wearing masks and masculinity got confused
By Tara Isabella Burton — July 9, 2020
(RNS) — Some of the most robust arguments against masks have also come from some of the political and religious right’s paragons of performative masculinity.
Why Christ wouldn’t aspire to ‘Christic Manhood’
By Nate Pyle — February 21, 2020
(RNS) — We live in a moment when the cultural ideals surrounding manhood are changing. As with any change, there are those who resist it. Those who have benefited from old ideals are pushing back against the change — often using religion to make their case.
Glamour and unattainability is out. Spiritual refreshment is in
By Tara Isabella Burton — August 23, 2019
(RNS) — Today’s advertisements are designed to evoke different and more numinous emotions: spiritual well-being, an inward journey, a moral sensibility. We’re buying the very things that organized religion used to provide us for free.
How the Christian ‘masculinity’ movement is ruining men
By Jonathan Merritt — August 30, 2016
(RNS) Many Christians have accepted secular standards of masculinity that are harmful to men, says Chandler Epp.
The book that revolutionized ‘Christian manhood’: 15 years after ‘Wild at Heart’
By Jonathan Merritt — April 22, 2016
John Elderege's 2001 book, "Wild at Heart", set off a national conversation about masculinity among Christians. Fifteen years later, the author reflects on its lasting legacy.
Donald Trump and the Christian obsession with masculinity
By Jonathan Merritt — January 28, 2016
Do Christian voters like Donald Trump because he's "manly?" And just what does that word mean anyway?
Moving beyond gender stereotypes: An interview with Larry Crabb
By Jonathan Merritt — July 24, 2013
Bestselling author and psychologist Larry Crabb enters the gender debate that is raging among Christians.
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