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Sports
I just finished watching the Grey Cup game [Canada's version of the Super Bowl] with my sons and friends. It was primarily a male affair. Women also play and watch sports but it has been primarily a man’s domain. Why do competitive sports get guys going? At coffee break in our lounge the men are often engaged in [...]
Gadget Man
Men are famous [or infamous] for their love of gadgets, tools, weapons, etc. What is it about us? The latest gadgets seem to be of the electronic type. I have so far resisted getting a cell phone, mp3, or anything that begins with “i.” I am supplied with a lap top computer for work and [...]
John Eldredge
On page 14 of the September, 2010 issue of Christianity Today they report that “the violent Mexican drug cartel La Familia has been distributing Wild at Heart to new recruits, drawing on the book’s masculine themes and warrior metaphors.” I am not at all surprised by this development. This is exactly the point I make [...]
Chopping wood
Yesterday I dug out some weeds, trimmed some bushes, watered the garden, and generally puttered around the yard. Today I was chopping wood. It was a bit like Noah building the ark in a drought because there is a “burning ban” on in our province, but I felt like doing something that would make me [...]
Anger
I’ve had a number of conversations recently about men’s energy, passion, and anger. I do have a section on anger in my book but it is a section that should be expanded in light of these conversations. Being a Mennonite and a pacifist, anger has sometimes been de-emphasized. People always ask, “What about Jesus clearing the temple?” It [...]
embodied spirituality
I find it interesting that in the past women were seen as less spiritual than men. Women were associated with flesh, earth, emotion and the body while men were associated with spirit, heaven, reason and the mind. Today, with the move to a more relational spirituality, it is women who are seen as more spiritual since they are [...]
gender differences
Some people who have read the book, women in particular, mention that the book does not really highlight in any significant way how men and women are different spiritually. “I could relate to almost everything in the book,” said one woman. My answer to women often is, “That’s good, but no man would ever read [...]
men’s ministry
My personal quest begins without a preconceived notion of where it is going. I do not come with years of experience as a men’s speaker or even a participant in a men’s organization of any kind. I have no formula that I have tested in years of ministry. This is not a “how to” book [...]
Post #2
Panentheism. This word is used in my book and is the first thing that somebody has flagged as troubling. I guess it has the connotations of being on the slippery slope towards pantheism. I guess I could have avoided any controversy or misunderstanding since I did write the poem with a blank, but then later [...]