Raising Men

In the aftermath of The Steubenville rape, Ann Voskamp wrote a great article on manhood. As a father I was really struck by it because I know I will define manhood for my son. Here is an excerpt, but please read the whole thing.

“Real Manhood never objectifies women. Real Manhood edifies women.Real Manhood means you don’t get drunk,and a man can get drunk on a lot more than alcohol.Men drunk on power, on control, on ego, lose more than all inhibition —they lose The Way, their own souls. Men drunk on anything can destroy everything and real manhood thirsts for righteousness.Real Manhood means peer pressure only makes you stronger in Christ.That in a culture where it’s the tendency to bend, you’ll stand. That in situations where there’s tendency to look the other way, you’ll look for help. That, at times in the church when there’s a tendency to be divisive on the secondary and a unified front of silence on the painful, you’ll seek to rightly divide the truth and unify the brokenhearted.”