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When Gender Roles Don’t Work: How One Couple and Their Sons Became Egalitarians
By: Jodi Hansen, David Hansen | September 5, 2018
We spent many years of our marriage and raised our sons in a church that sought to form men into manly Christian leaders and women into submissive followers. Thankfully, we realized that model didn’t make sense for our marriage or for our sons.
Raising Emotional Boys in a “Boys Don’t Cry” Culture
By: Rebecca Shimp Martin | September 5, 2018
No one ever warned us that we might have a child whose response to every disappointment would be perpetually set to Defcon One. We had one laid-back, happy son, and we thought we understood what little boys needed and how they behaved. Boys, we were always told, are resilient. They don’t express themselves verbally. [...]
Give Them Words: Helping Boys Name and Navigate Their Emotions
By: Tatyana Claytor | September 5, 2018
Words are my gift to my son, a gift many men do not grow up with. Instead, they are taught that emotions are silly or effeminate and should therefore be ignored (or at least restrained). These men now struggle with anger and health issues that don’t seem to have any clear causes.
Boy Stories: Teaching Our Sons to Share and Listen
By: Tyler Billman, Jenny Billman | September 5, 2018
Countering prevalent views on masculinity requires intentional action. While there are many ways to foster connection and emotional health, there’s one tool that has worked especially for us: storytelling.
It’s Good for Everyone When Boys Can Be Vulnerable
By: Tim Krueger | September 5, 2018
We need to raise men who find their identity in Christ, not in gendered stereotypes. So where do we start? Here's five ideas.
6 Things I Pray for My Granddaughters
By: Susanne Maynes | August 27, 2018
I pray regularly for all my grandchildren, but I find myself praying for the girls in particular because of the prejudice and exclusion they will likely face as females.
Let's Stop Telling Our Girls That Beauty Can Redeem the Beast
By: Tina Osterhouse | August 22, 2018
How should we deal with the Beauty and the Beast motif in our culture? Particularly, how do we deal with this motif in the era of #MeToo and #ChurchToo?
What Kind of Men Will Our Church-Going Boys Become?
By: Elizabeth Ware | May 23, 2018
I was wrong—wrong to think sexist messages didn’t affect me or my family because I didn’t aspire to become a preacher and because I had sons and not daughters.
Saying Yes: I Never Wanted to Preach, but My Daughter Needs Me To
By: Emily Summach | March 5, 2018
What good, I feared, would it do my daughter to know that she was equal, but only in theory? How could she envision herself preaching if there were no women to spark her imagination? How could she be what she could not see?
The Gift of Presumption: Giving Our Daughters a World Where They Can Say Yes to God
By: Stepanie Dyrness Lobdell | March 5, 2018
As I watch my daughter mature and develop a rather alarming perceptiveness, I wonder when she will start to notice the vocational gender disparity around her, particularly in the church. Her wide-eyed five-year-old self knows nothing of a world in which her gender has something to say about how she can embody the gifts and [...]