With few men mentoring our boys with a compelling vision for manhood, what will be the impact of these vision-less boys\/men on families? Fatherhood?\u00a0 Citizenship?\u00a0\u00a0 All too often, boys with no heroic vision for manhood either become violent or passive.\u00a0 Culture and families suffer greatly from both violent males and passive males.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThis isn\u2019t just a parenting issue\u2026a school issue\u2026a church issue.\u00a0 It\u2019s a cultural issue.\u00a0 It impacts and will continue to impact all of us.<\/p>\n
Why should you care?\u00a0 For the reasons stated above and many more, but most important of all: Because these boys are created in the Image of God, male.\u00a0 They matter to God.\u00a0 God created them to matter to us.\u00a0 To matter to society.\u00a0\u00a0 Healthy, vibrant, noble, educated males build a better world.\u00a0 We need them.\u00a0 That\u2019s why you should care.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My concern for the future of boys is personal.\u00a0 I have two grandsons, both nearing age three.\u00a0 I\u2019m the pastor of a church with boys of all ages.\u00a0 These are real boys, boys I care about, who are growing up in a world: Where boys are increasingly falling behind girls in school Where the reading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1621,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[41,2,27,57,50,9,23],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boys","tag-boy-crisis","tag-boys","tag-educating-boys","tag-image-of-god","tag-mentors","tag-searching-for-tom-sawyer","tag-tim-wright"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>This issue is personal for me.\u00a0 But I\u2019d like to suggest that it should be personal for you as well, whether you have a boy in your life or not.<\/p>\n