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Coming Out… and Coming to Christ
I’ve written on here before about the needs of gay people and the church, and thought it was time to share my own story. I came to Christ when I was thirty-nine and a practicing homosexual. Oddly...
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Essential Manly Movies: The Magnificent Seven
[Editor's Note: We have covered The Magnificent Seven before: not once, but twice. But Ben brings a unique and interesting take on it for our Essential Manly Movies series.] “He’s a good gun…and we...
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What Does it Mean to Become a Man?
When my first son was born in 1995, I started asking men around me this question from time to time: “When did you become a man?” Most of the time I got one of two different answers. First, some men...
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What Does it Mean to Become a Man? Part 2
In my previous post yesterday, I described my research in addressing what it meant to make the transition from boyhood to manhood in a healthy way. Today, I’d like to take a few moments and share...
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Becoming Superman
As men, we try to portray the image that we have it all together. That we own the world and nothing can possibly penetrate our shield of hair and muscle. We are Superman, and given the chance we would...
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My Father was an Alcoholic
My earliest memories of my dad involve the same things a lot of kids with working dads have, like running to meet him when he got off the bus after work. That was when he was around. Until I was...
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“Don’t have any parts left over”
“Don’t have any parts left over” – the basic rule of a motorcycle mechanic. I rode motorcycles for quite a few years. I’ve ridden some dirt bikes, but my main thing was road bikes. Triumph and BSA...
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Adoption Is Good Battle
Battle has lost much of its meaning. Bullets still fly. Conflict will always rage in a broken world. But men no longer seek battle as men used to seek it. I make my living writing about men at war, so...
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Answer the Call: Foster Care
My first experience installing a car seat wasn’t for my first-born son. It was actually a few years earlier for two foster children who needed to be transported from an appointment to their foster...
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What Fat Lady?
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you...
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Hungering for a Father
When I was in high school most of my buddies began learning a skill like carpentry or auto mechanics, the skill I was best at was “manual labor.” Dig a ditch, haul off trash, basically move heavy...
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Marry a Single Mother
Roughly 40% of all children are born to unwed mothers including a staggering 72% of black children and 53% of Hispanic children. Men, that’s absurd. That’s sickening. That’s cruel. Just as cruel: how...
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You ain’t a man until____
When I was 15 my Dad dropped me off at the Union House Bar in Framingham, MA to go to work as a construction laborer. They took me out to the construction site where I learned how to be a mud tender,...
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Hoss Laughlin Day at Blog of Manly
It’s Hoss’s birthday today (I think. I’ve been wrong about these things before.). Hoss has been with Blog of Manly since the very beginning. Not only has he been with us forever, he’s easily been the...
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Heroes: Judas Maccabeus
I’d like to take this time to recognize and introduce one of my favorite manly men in history: Judas Maccabeus. For those that don’t know, Judas Maccabeus was a Jew during the reign of Antiochus...
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Help!
Going after the broken and lost means going after people with some pretty deep wounds. There’s a reason we are the way we are. We didn’t get like that overnight. There are very real reasons why we...
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(Manly Places) Death Valley
We took a vacation in 2012 that changed my life. I’ll probably write more about it later as I highlight a few of the manly places I’ve been, but the gist was this: we flew to Vegas, rented a...
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Just Enough
The call made me so nervous my ears were ringing. Our first possible foster child placement. Sure, we’d taken 30 hours of training, read lots of books and completed the in-depth home study. And even...
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The Heart Of A Champion
My childhood idol, Dick Butkus, was probably the fiercest competitor of his or any other time. If a Super Bowl could be won by determination and will alone, he would have won plenty. The only problem...
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The Stripes
The lobby at Bethesda National Naval Medical center is quiet at night, more like an airport than a hospital. World clocks on the wall tell the world’s time and TVs playing the news echo throughout the...
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