Brad Wilcox
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first heard Jun 2026
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And so there's a way in which I think people...
Or even, you know, in church communities, they report being ghosted by someone who's, you know, a Christian, or they report kind of a sense of ambiguity in their relationship, a certain kind of situationship where they feel like there's not a clear direction.
It's certainly the case that the broader culture does shape the kinds of norms and expectations and behaviors that
Christian young adults are also, you know, engaging in.
And there's a lot that they have to, I think, sort of cast aside if they'd like to make headway in finding real love.
Yeah, I think there's a reluctance on the part of many clergy and many kind of lay leaders to sort of speak clearly and confidently and articulately to men and to kind of like give them a clear and compelling vision of what it means to be a man and what it means to be masculine.
There's kind of a worry about seeming like you're, you know, like a troglodyte or that you're sort of out of touch or that you're kind of anti-woman.
Part of the reason so many young men and so many teenage boys are struggling is they haven't been kind of cast a vision yet.
about what it means to be a man, right?
And so lacking a kind of a clear and compelling vision of masculinity, they don't really know like what they should be aiming for, what they should be striving for.
So that's, I think, part of the challenge.
It's also a case though, too, beyond just sort of messaging, we need to think about, you know, kind of what kind of ethos are we cultivating?
You know, because in most cultures,
across time and space, there have been rites of passage, rites of passage that have ushered either teenage boys or young men into adult manhood, if you will.
And these rites of passage have often kind of required them to do difficult, dangerous, or risky things that show their courage, their strength, their capacity to display the virtue of fortitude.
And so without these kind of like rites of passage, you know, I think it's no accident that so many young men are kind of seeming not to, you know, to sort of measure up as more confident, you know, strong, more manly.
Yeah, that's certainly part of the dynamic.
I think recognizing and realizing, again, that in any world that we live in, there's no perfect person.
And I think it's also important to recognize that there is what I would call kind of male malaise out there where young men are not doing as well as young women when it comes to things like schooling and when it comes to often socializing as well.
And so
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