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John D\u2019Elia brings some much-needed perspective to the latest John Piper kerfuffle over masculinity:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a fair amount of manliness popping up in churches these days.<\/p>\n

This is nothing all that new in American evangelicalism. Dwight Moody said similar things back in the late 1800s, but for far more sensible reasons. The massive shift toward industrialization and urbanization in post-Civil War America kept working men away from home and church for six or seven days out of every week. The work they did was often dirty, dangerous and dehumanizing, and their time off was spent sleeping or drinking. As a result the Christian faith became associated with the women who were its most visible practitioners, and Moody believed that if men were ever going hear a credible expression of the Christian message, preachers were going to have to butch it up a little. He didn\u2019t say anything against women, though. He simply wanted men to feel more welcome\u2014as men\u2014in the Christian culture of the day. We can credit Moody with a part of our contemporary emphasis on reaching out to the marginalized people around us (the working men of Moody\u2019s time), and making them welcome in our midst.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

READ THE REST:\u00a0An American Minister in London: Through a Glass Manly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John D\u2019Elia brings some much-needed perspective to the latest John Piper kerfuffle over masculinity: There\u2019s a fair amount of manliness popping up in churches these days. This is nothing all that new in American evangelicalism. Dwight Moody said similar things back in the late 1800s, but for far more sensible reasons. 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