When you ask college guys *why* they join frats you’ll hear them say that it’s the first time their ever experienced brotherly-love in community, being accepted as they are, having group encouragement & support, guys building them up, etc. This guy’s a Christian & needed a frat.
The K-12 isolation for boys must be significantly underreported. Schools & religious communities aren’t addressing the issue. Campus ministries are 70-80% women so they can’t help. Even FCA & other sports ministries are now essentially women’s ministries. amazon.com/dp/1479818135/…
I’m followed about 2,000 frats across the country and this is the first week in a long while that I have no seen a post about a fraternity guy committing suicide. Sadly, going a week or so is a victory. That’s how dire things are.
So I’m wondering why our society doesn’t believe that young men specifically need brotherly-love that’s not in the presence of women. It’s an actual need. So, they join frats. Jesus & his disciples used to laid their heads in each other’s chests. Jn 13:23 biblehub.com/nkjv/john/13.h…

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Jan 27
This isn't really true. Maybe he only knows a few people so the sample size is small. But the evangelical dunking on Jordan Peterson is often out of envy. He's a Jungian psychologist and I've known lots of guys exhibiting "Fruits of the Spirit" after reading "The 12 Rules" book.
Evangelical pastors need to ask this question, "Why are young men listening to Jordan Peterson and not us?" If the pastors were speaking helpfully into the world of young men, they wouldn't be listening to Peterson tell them to "always be truthful." fathommag.com/stories/the-vo…
Also, if you really want to know why evangelical pastors (even the hipster/cool ones) don't seem to understand the fascination with Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, etc., this may have something to do with it (when you look at church history). blog.acton.org/archives/12293…
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CRT is 100% being taught in some K-12 schools. He got this one wrong. How do you miss the fact that someone in Washington Post talked about how they learned CRT in high school? Why do people believe CRT is not in *some* K-12 schools? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
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Jan 11
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the Sunday morning services?" Why, said the SBC? "Some think of the kingdom of God as narrow, effeminate and sentimental. The exact opposite is true. It is board, masculine, and practical." (1) this shows how things change. Matt 28:18-20 wasn't the focus .amazon.com/Separation-Chu…
(2) Social justice has always been used to drawn men back into the church. The SBC was a social gospel denomination in 1915. What happened? By the 1950s, they were defending Jim Crow. Think about this. Cultural influence really is *that* powerful on influencing religious beliefs.
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Jan 11
For about 700 years, church history shows that the least successful group at reaching men is clergy. So why are we looking to pastors? Data from church history shows if you want to grow men in the church is has to be led by lay men not pastors or staff. amazon.com/Losing-Good-Po…
I've been reading about this for weeks and the history is really clear: the only way to connect Christianity to the world of men successfully, with sustainability is if non-professional staff lead it. No pastors, campus ministers, paid men's staff, etc. Dozens of books on this!
Professional clergy only know how to do one thing well, reach women, which is great. But Christian churches have no idea what to do with men. The Social Gospel movement (1870 to 1920) was a masculinity movement. Its purpose was to attract men by compelling them to justice issues.
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Jan 9
I'm following about 1600 fraternity chapters for a new book. I may change the book's direction. The amount of suicide(almost weekly) isn't what I expected. Parents, esp. dads, if you have a son in college call/visit him today & do whatever you can to tell him that we need him.
I followed a new frat today and the first thing I saw was a death notice. His funeral told about him being all smiles, raised in the church, etc. After his parent's divorce, he became a caregiver. He was always making sure everyone is was ok. People didn't know he was struggling.
He was in a fraternity and the relationships didn't seem very deep. Sports, partying, drinking, etc. Recreation with no depth which is typical for men's friendships. I talk a lot about college guys struggling and I don't know if people get it but what I'm seeing is unnerving.
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Al Coda: I did not expect this to blow up but it confirm the fact that white Calvinists refuse to see themselves as a culture. If I said, "Black church culture," people nod. But to say "modern white Calvinist culture" the response is about why I hate white people or Calvinism.
This is what happens when you're the dominant culture in a cocoon and the center of your own conversations. Everything you do/think is the standard. Standards are exempt from analysis and critique. "White evangelicalism" is a culture. It's not a theology. It can generate data.
Many parts of White Calvinist culture really does believe it is the standard by which to judge all other forms of Christianity.
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