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Biblical Manhood: Practical Suggestions for Moving Forward
Read more: Biblical Manhood: Practical Suggestions for Moving ForwardThe biblical manhood series that I have been working on since the beginning of the blog comes to a conclusion in this post. I don’t have any jaw dropping critiques that will likely cause major disagreement; at least, I sure hope I don’t. In my last post, I laid out some points that I think…
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Guest Post: An Introduction to the Roles of Men and Women in the Church and Family
Read more: Guest Post: An Introduction to the Roles of Men and Women in the Church and FamilyBy Andrew Linderer The issue of men and women in the church seems to be a ticking time bomb in the modern American church. It has enormous potential to split churches, break up families, and leave people broken and confused. It’s a heated debate and often one that brings about a certain degree of petty…
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Biblical Manhood, Pastoral Ministry and Shifting Economic Sands: A Convergence of Ideas
Read more: Biblical Manhood, Pastoral Ministry and Shifting Economic Sands: A Convergence of IdeasOver the past few weeks, I have been critiquing the biblical manhood movement on a number of levels. While those first four posts were crucial in the series I am writing, I want to strike out on a bit of a different tact in these final two posts. In this post in particular, I have…
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Biblical Manhood in Application: Are There Two Competing Visions for Biblical Manhood?
Read more: Biblical Manhood in Application: Are There Two Competing Visions for Biblical Manhood?Much of what I have been arguing for, or against, over the past couple of weeks has to do with what I believe is at the root of the misunderstanding surrounding proper applications of biblical manhood principles. I want to suggest that the biblical manhood movement puts crushing and often times unbiblical expectations on young…
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Sociological Data and Biblical Manhood: Insight Into the Issue or a Pathway to Problems?
Read more: Sociological Data and Biblical Manhood: Insight Into the Issue or a Pathway to Problems?During the fall of 2007, the book Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters by David Kinnaman was hot off the press. I can still remember my peers telling me that they couldn’t wait to read it. As an employee at the Biola bookstore (what memories!), I figured I…
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Theological Dislocation and the Biblical Manhood Movement
Read more: Theological Dislocation and the Biblical Manhood MovementDisclaimer: After posting my initial critique of the biblical manhood movement last week, I received a number of responses. It appeared to at least one commenter that I was ungrateful for what the men I had critiqued were doing to help recover a vision for biblical manhood in the church. Before I delve into my…
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But Who Are They Talking To? Questions for the Biblical Manhood Movement
Read more: But Who Are They Talking To? Questions for the Biblical Manhood MovementDuring August of 2010 Mark Driscoll wrote an article entitled, “The World is Filled With Boys Who Can Shave.” In his article, Driscoll laments the fact that men today are simply not growing up. Among the more memorable lines, Driscoll states, “So, we are left with indefinite adolescence and a Peter Pan Syndrome epidemic where…