The Feminization of the American Male

On the program today, I will be joined by Randy Stinson.

Randy Stinson serves as President of CBMW and also as Dean of the School of Leadership and Church Growth at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

I will be speaking with Randy about an article he has recently written critiquing Tony Glenville's 2006 Top to Toe: A Comprehensive Guide to the Grooming of the Modern Male.

In the article Randy writes, 'if the church continues to follow the culture, we will have plenty of 'Top to Toe' men, able to shop with the best of them at Bath and Body Works, but unwilling and unable to fulfill the Gospel demands that require toughness, self sacrifice, and self-neglect. We do not need prettier boys. We do not need softer men. What we need is a church culture that will call boys and men to lives of self sacrifice as exampled by the picture of Christ in Ephesians 5 who loved the church and gave himself for her to his own neglect and sacrifice. What we need are pastors who will boldly preach about and press for an ethos in their churches that expects this type of behavior from their men. What we need is a church culture that will require boys and men to do hard things, to cultivate toughness, resilience, and courage, top to toe.'