We modern men all have a longing for a guide, a mentor. The wise man who can help us navigate the shores of young adulthood. We all, in other words, desire that singular, archetypal figure who has seemingly cracked the code of existence. The one who has it all figured...

When an essay detonates across the culture like a depth charge, it is usually because it names a feeling that was already there. Helen Andrews’s “The Great Feminization” in Compact Magazine did exactly that. In a few thousand words she managed to link everything from...

“Every age is marked by its illusions; ours is that we have none.” — Daniel J. Boorstin “Irony is the song of a bird that has come to love its cage.” — Theodor W. Adorno The New Language of Belonging Every generation invents its secret codes of belonging—words,...

In a world fraught with many mental and spiritual challenges, people often grapple with loneliness and isolation — a phenomenon usually referred to as a "friendship recession." For young men of faith, having strong friendships is more than a social luxury. These bonds...

I suspect most of us encounter the Book of Proverbs as young men. But lately, I have had the privilege of encountering it again, not through my own eyes, but through the bright eyes of my fourteen-year-old son. We sit together early in the morning, before the chaos of...