Logan Gentry recently reviewed Eric Mason’s new book Manhood Restored on this site, and we are excited about Mason’s book reaching a new and hopefully diverse group of men. Over at The Gospel Coalition, Trevin Wax interviewed him about his new book, “daddy deprivation,” cultivating a worldview, and sexuality. Here’s a snippet: Trevin Wax: You write...

By Owen Strachan Recently a brand-new conversation began among complementarians. Wendy Alsup wrote a post called “A New Wave of Complementarianism” that met with an enthusiastic online response. Many took note, and key leaders weighed in, including Kevin DeYoung and Thabiti Anyabwile. Any discussion on complementarianism is inherently interesting and important to me, and so...

by Owen Strachan Earlier this week I wrote a piece for Manual on the “smokin’ hot wife” references you sometimes hear in evangelical churches. I realized today that I should have addressed another dimension of this trend: the daughters who hear this language in churches. Let me first say this: many of the men who would use “smokin’...

By J.A. Medders “He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith.” Acts 11:24 Growing up I wanted to “be like Mike.” Who didn’t? He was the King of Basketball. I loved watching Jordan, and I loved imitating his dunks on my bedroom door’s Nerf goal. He was my role model...

By Andrew Hebert An ancient Chinese proverb says, “One generation plants the tree. The next enjoys the shade.” This is a restatement of the biblical truth that “whatever a man sows he will also reap,” but with a slight twist – “what you sow, others will reap.” Nowhere is this more relevant than the mandate...

by Grant Castleberry It was late in the afternoon of September 23, 1986. I was just two years old, and my dad had just taken off on a routine training exercise in his F-4 Phantom Marine Corps fighter jet. He was flying over the Atlantic Ocean, not far from our home in Beaufort, South Carolina,...