And, as the mother of two boys, I am delighted that he is sharing these fruits of wisdom with the men of today, and the generations to follow. What stunned me diving into To Be A Man: A Guide to True Masculine Power is how few models exist in my seriously worked-on psyche — let alone the world — of mature masculine power.

Like those longer works, these short fictions also explore the themes of memory and spirituality and transnational Jewishness. And as much as I had done every single thing to look like a man and live like one, I denied wanting to become one because I didn’t want to become my father or lose my lesbian lover or be a failed feminist and intellectual. It stands out all the more for the lack of such clear speech and precise biblical teaching in evangelical circles today. Larry Richards, a popular speaker at men's conferences around the country, is the pastor of an inner city parish in Erie, PA. I had been scrutinizing masculinity my whole life, trying to perfectly replicate it in my gestures and clothes and physique.If you’ve read your share of popular advice on relationships and being a man — but realize on a gut level that it’s going to take some serious inner work — here’s a deeply practical guide to that most rewarding of challenges: doing what’s needed to fully embody your authentic manhood. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. He tells men how to focus on the right goal, how to live as a beloved son of God, of the need to acknowledge one�s faults and to live according to the Holy Spirit, to be a man of true love and of wisdom, to appreciate properly the differences between men and women, to pursue holiness, and to make a difference in the world. Then goes on to drop wisdom about Drinking, fighting, cooking, cars and hardware, which men must understand to be accepted by other men.

Mary-Claire Mason wrote the ground-breaking book ‘ Male infertility – men talking,’ London, Routledge. Such power is potent but not aggressive, challenging but not shaming, grounded but not rigid, forceful but not pushy. I was not expecting to find out that behind a lot of the Be a Man quips were derived from actual lessons this man learned in his life. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.I will not recover from what I am seeing, a woman recounting her deepest pain in front of a group of disinterested and disbelieving men who run our country. I see all the flaws of men, all the ways their fragility makes them dangerous and powerful and dismissive and sure that they know it all, and I love being a man.

Robert Augustus Masters has written a powerful guide for men that integrates rigor and receptivity, aggression and authority, vulnerability and potency. To Be a Man illuminates with a fierce, unwavering light the forces driving human existence: sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery, growing older.

I experience myself as a man; not as a construct, but how I construct that man knowing what I know as a woman is my work now. I am like a newborn who is expected to drive sixty-five miles per hour down the highway, but I can’t see above the steering wheel. Our entire culture is permeated with the language of war: the war on drugs, the war on cancer, the war on poverty, and so on. Larry Richards explores how a Christ-centered male spirituality fosters growth in holiness, and inspires men to become loving servants of their wives, families, and the Church.