The following is an adapted excerpt from Leaving Boyhood Behind by Jason Craig. Jesus went through the stages of a rite of passage, as the Gospel of Luke – the Gospel that gives the most details of Jesus' childhood – describes. The story of the boy Jesus in the Temple in particular shows that Jesus had to transition away from boyhood into the ...

The New York Post ran an article recently by Maureen Callahan called Why Are Young American Men So Angry?  She noted that mass shooters are fitting a common pattern, which flows into their general disposition of being angry: From those mass shooters who have attacked the innocent before, we know it’s a specific strain of anger — deep, repress...

Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17). The following is taken from chapter 2 of Leaving Boyhood Behind. Some transitions in life are so radical that the old form of life simply cannot continue into the new form; the old form must give way and the new form b...

No one can raise your son(s) for you.  A father has the privilege and the duty to guide his son into manhood.  No one else but you can do it, and when a mentor or friend does step in for fatherless boys, he acts in a fatherly capacity.  But because of the state of our society, masculine guidance into maturity will not happen without intentionali...