By Rusty McKie    Friendship is war because friendships are hard! The culprit is a dark enemy that keeps men from knowing each other and being known. This enemy is not what we usually think of — busyness, introverted personalities or lack of opportunity. The dark enemy that fights against our friendships is the Dark...

By Owen Strachan Developing a new phase of a movement is a tricky task. At the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood (CBMW), we’ve taken on this challenge in the past year or so. It has been very exciting to me to see a whole wave of young complementarian voices emerge. Two of these are...

By Ryan Rindels   For Christian men today, there is a disturbing awareness that the virtue of courage is lacking. Courage was among the four cardinal virtues the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, identified, as well as temperance, prudence and justice.  “Fortune favors the bold,” as the poet Virgil, would say. Courage was the balance between recklessness...

By Rusty McKie Men and women in our churches are suffering from the self-inflicted pain of their addiction.  I’m not talking about sexual addictions, drugs, or alcohol; I’m talking about the binges, withdrawals and cravings to make an identity for themselves through their work.  How do we pastor people who work 50, 60 & 70-hour...

By Richard Clark I grew up playing Sega Genesis, agonizing over whether manhood was something I would ever attain. I thought it meant being able to beat up another man, forcibly rescuing the damsel in distress, crudely acknowledging my rampant heterosexual lusts by ogling scantily clad Street Fighter characters. I thought manhood was expressed through...

By Peter Anderson I don’t know about you, but I really like my cell phone. I am in a minority position when it comes to the particular brand of phone I carry. I am part of the 4% of cellular users who own a Blackberry cellphone. I bet I know what 96% of you are thinking,...