“Masculinity” Articles

The game assumes the audience already understands the dangers built into the Bond archetype, and then it moves beyond them.

At its worst and best, Red Dawn challenges us to think about how we see war, masculinity, and honor.

The franchise offers a strange meditation on modern conceptions of masculinity, and how those have evolved in the past thirty-five years.

In a time when winning has become the ultimate morality, and the struggle to gain and maintain power has turned otherwise absolute standards of goodness into subjective opinion in the eyes of so many, we all need more of what Ted Lasso is dishing out. 

The Gillette ad can remind us that the outward trappings of “manliness” are not what God counts as good.

Drew Dixon is joined by Abby Perry and Kathryn Watson to discuss the conflicting ideas of “manhood” in evangelicalism from their co-authored article, Rearing Boys to Be Peacemakers in a World Bent on War.

When we talk about toxic masculinity, this is what we mean: the mindset calling men to the worldly honor of physical dominance, at the expense of humility and grace.

We forget that the Church’s role is not to baptize toxic masculinity, but rather, to redeem true masculinity.

Christian men are weeping over a form of masculinity that Jesus never called us to pursue.

#MoreThanMean shows that while abuse may be destructive, disgusting, and altogether intolerable, it is not a problem beyond hope of redemption.

Our fullest expression as male and female created in the image of God is found in neither unbridled freedom nor oppressive regulation.

Straight white men don’t dance because we take ourselves too seriously. It would be healthy for us to add dancing back to our vision of manhood.

‘Braveheart’ is more than just a great story well-told. It gives a framework for manhood that stands the test of time.

In the Kingdom of God, a man isn’t a man because of his ability to buy into an ideal. A man is a man solely because God has called him “son.”

The central theme of ‘Better Call Saul’—Jimmy’s (later Saul) struggle with his identity as a man—takes the show to its loftiest heights.

How did an ad for Obamacare mutate into a debate over masculinity?