{"id":52649,"date":"2022-09-30T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=52649"},"modified":"2022-09-30T00:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:49:23","slug":"getting-masculinity-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=52649","title":{"rendered":"Getting Masculinity Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this year I was in Sydney, Australia over a weekend. I wanted to go to church of course, so visited TGC\u2019s site to scour its handy church directory<\/a>. I found that within walking distance was a little Anglican church that worshipped in a nearby college of the arts. I arrived to find that the church was welcoming a guest speaker that day\u2014one who was formerly a priest and bishop in the Anglican Church but was now director of a fellowship of independent churches. I thoroughly enjoyed the sermon he preached that morning and benefited from it. Then church was over and I went my way and that was that.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t think much more about it until recently when I was browsing new books, saw an author\u2019s photo, and found myself racking my brain to try to figure out why he looked familiar. Then I remembered: it was the guy who preached that morning in Sydney. Al Stewart\u2019s The Manual<\/em> is a book to men, for men, and about men\u2014a book about masculinity. And it\u2019s a really good one.<\/p>\n

It is well-documented that masculinity has fallen on hard times. In fact, when we hear it spoken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year I was in Sydney, Australia over a weekend. I wanted to go to church of course, so visited TGC\u2019s site to scour its handy church directory. I found that within walking distance was a little Anglican church that worshipped in a nearby college of the arts. I arrived to find that the church was welcoming a guest speaker that day\u2014one who was formerly a priest and bishop in the Anglican Church but was now director of a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":52652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[468,854,1149],"class_list":["post-52649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-men","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/61p4cAHxRgL-1-1.jpg?fit=922%2C486&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52654,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52649\/revisions\/52654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}