{"id":307885,"date":"2023-10-11T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/toxic-masculinity-and-the-power-of-a-great-dad-nancy-pearcey-2\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T13:15:00","slug":"toxic-masculinity-and-the-power-of-a-great-dad-nancy-pearcey-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/toxic-masculinity-and-the-power-of-a-great-dad-nancy-pearcey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Masculinity&#8211;and the Power of a Great Dad: Nancy Pearcey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toxic masculinity is just as destructive as we think it is&mdash;to society and men alike. But author and professor Nancy Pearcey&#8217;s data shows more of the whole story: of the power of a great dad and a good man to change their corner of the world.<\/p>\n<p>As a little girl, I looked up to my dad so much. I was the youngest of four, but I can remember being scared of the dark, and I ran into my parents&#8217; bedroom. I would snuggle in between my mom and dad, and I remember my dad would put his arm around me and I would feel so protected, and then my little head would move into his rib, and I could feel and hear his heartbeat. I felt so cared for and protected. <\/p>\n<p>I loved my mom. I had a great relationship with my mom, but there was something about my dad that made me feel safe. I always wanted his attention. I wanted to be seen by him because he was so important to me.&nbsp; &#8212; Ann Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Show Notes and Resources<\/p>\n<p>\tConnect with Nancy Pearcey on her website: nancypearcey.com<br \/>\n\tand get a copy of Nancy&#8217;s book, The Toxic War on Masculinity<br \/>\n\tGo to familylife.com\/comingsoon to sign up for the Art of Marriage live event and to be notified of when pre-orders are live!<br \/>\n\tCheck out more episodes from Nancy Pearcey<br \/>\n\tFind resources from this podcast at shop.familylife.com.<br \/>\n\tSee resources from our past podcasts.<br \/>\n\tFind more content and resources on the FamilyLife&#8217;s app!<br \/>\n\tHelp others find FamilyLife. Leave a review on Apple Podcast or Spotify.<br \/>\n\tCheck out all the FamilyLife podcasts on the FamilyLife Podcast Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toxic masculinity is as destructive as we think it is. 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I was the youngest of four, but I can remember being scared of the dark, and I ran into my parents\u2019 bedroom. I would snuggle in between my mom and dad, and I remember my dad would put his arm around me and I would feel so protected, and then my little head would move into his rib, and I could feel and hear his heartbeat. I felt so cared for and protected.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI loved my mom. I had a great relationship with my mom, but there was something about my dad that made me feel safe. I always wanted his attention. I wanted to be seen by him because he was so important to me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shelby: <\/strong>Welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I\u2019m Shelby Abbott, and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. You can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> We\u2019ve been talking for the last couple of days about toxic masculinity. We have Nancy back, who has declared war on toxic masculinity. [Laughter] Nancy Pearcey is back in the studio. I\u2019m joking, but the title of your book is <em>The Toxic War on Masculinity.<\/em> In a sense, you have a fiery spirit in you. We\u2019ve talked about the journey men have been through from the Colonial Age to the Industrial Revolution.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Let me say this, too, Nancy. Am I right in saying, as you\u2019ve seen a culture defining and bashing men and who they are and how they\u2019re so toxic, did you feel like, \u201cWait a minute?\u201d I feel like you\u2019ve said that. She did kind of go war against it a little bit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> One of the things I think is really tragic is that it overlooks the fact that men and boys are actually falling behind today. They are doing worse than they did in the past. Boys are falling behind at all levels of education, from kindergarten to college. The average college now is sixty percent female, forty percent male. Graduate school\u2014more women than men are going to graduate school and even professional school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> So what\u2019s happened? Why? You know, you\u2019re the expert. {Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> You\u2019re the researcher.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Well, let me tell you more of the problem\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave and Ann:<\/strong> Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014and not just [for] boys, but men. Men are falling behind. Men are much more likely to commit suicide, to be addicted to drugs or alcohol, to be both victims and perpetrators of violence. Ninety percent of people in prison are men, and men are falling out of the workplace, by the way. The rate of employment among men today is at depression-era levels.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Wow!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Depression-era levels, and we don\u2019t know it, because they\u2019re falling out of the employment statistics. They\u2019re not trying to find work anymore, so they\u2019re not counted. And their life expectancy has gone down, while women\u2019s has stayed the same over the last four years or so. There\u2019s a publication called <em>The New Scientist<\/em> that said the major factor in early death now is being male. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI did quote, in my book, a psychiatrist. Her name is Erica Komisar, and she writes for the <em>Wall Street Journal.<\/em> She said, \u201cI am getting more and more young men into my practice who feel defeated because they\u2019re growing up in a culture that\u2019s so hostile to masculinity, and I\u2019m seeing it in my practice; young men in particular, because they\u2019re the ones who have grown up with that negative message.\u201d So, I\u2019m very concerned about boys. I have two of them. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes, and we have three. Even as we read your title, it\u2019s concerning, what\u2019s happening to boys and men today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Where do you go to say, \u201cWe have to change the narrative?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> The biggest long-term solution is fathers; fathers being more engaged with their sons. That\u2019s a problem, too, because America has the highest level of single parenthood in the world. Forty percent of children in America are growing up with no contact with their natural father. So, I have a whole chapter on fatherhood. If fathers are not involved with their children, especially their sons, their sons are going to have more trouble in school, more trouble with addiction, more trouble with crime. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI used to work for Prison Fellowship, which is an international prison ministry, and we knew all too well that most of the men sitting behind bars are coming from fatherless homes, especially violent criminals. They are coming from fatherless homes. What do we do about fathers being disrespected and mocked and ridiculed in the media? Again, everyone knows that, but they don\u2019t know where it comes from. Once again, it\u2019s the Industrial Revolution. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat happened when fathers were no longer working side by side with their children all day, day in, day out? Well, they got out of touch with their children\u2019s needs, their children\u2019s personalities and skills and talents. They no longer knew the dynamics in the household, so all they did in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century\u2014you see this in the literature\u2014people start mocking fathers and saying, \u201cOh, they\u2019re so irrelevant. They\u2019re so incompetent. What are they good for, anyway?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tActually, that\u2019s from a novel that was written in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century. One of the characters said, \u201cI can\u2019t figure out what fathers were made for anyway.\u201d So, you start to see this denigration of fathers, just because they\u2019re not there, and they\u2019re not integrated into the family the way they used to be. The long-term solution has got to be fathers. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere\u2019s a psychiatrist, Frank Pitman, who says, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to turn out better men until we have better fathers, better fathers raising them.\u201d I do have an entire chapter in the book on: what does that look like practically? Like you said, we can\u2019t undo the Industrial Revolution, so what do we do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI do have a whole chapter on men who found ways to be more flexible in their job, find ways to work two days at home, or start a home business. One person I interviewed left at 4:30 two days a week to coach his son\u2019s basketball and soccer, and his boss gave him a hard time, but it did not end up hurting his job. When his sons grew up they said, \u201cWe want to be a dad like you,\u201d which is a whole lot better than any workplace award.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I\u2019ll give you one story from the pandemic, too, because the pandemic has helped a lot of men discover, \u201cHey, I actually like being closer to my family.\u201d The <em>New York Times <\/em>had an article where the title was, \u201cDuring the Pandemic Many Fathers Got Closer to Their Children, and They Don\u2019t Want to Lose That.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I\u2019ve seen that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I love that title!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Me, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Another survey said 65 percent of men don\u2019t want to work full-time in the office anymore. They want to be at least part-time home. One of my student\u2019s husband was an IT professional who came home during the pandemic. Being home, he was able to be even more involved with homeschooling. He was able to take the kids to soccer. He decided he would do lunch every day; he would take that on. He made lunch for the family every day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHis wife, who was my student, was an opera singer. She started a voice studio, and the whole family benefitted from the additional income. When I interviewed her husband, this was the crowning point: he said the time that he used to spend commuting every morning, he now spends praying with his wife. He said, \u201cI\u2019m never going back to a cubicle.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> So, it sounds like anything a man can do to be able to navigate his job to possibly spend more time at home is definitely beneficial.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> And Millennials want that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I read a really cool article with a survey showing Millennials want to share both the bread-winning and the caretaking in a little bit more even way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I like that they\u2019re doing this. I think it\u2019s good for the kids, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I think I\u2019m old enough to have lived through several decades of watching men at work. I\u2019m glad to hear this. because it\u2019s changing. There was a time where if you saw a man in your neighborhood at two in the afternoon, or dropping off the kids, you thought, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong? He\u2019s not a man. He doesn\u2019t have a job.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of my best friends, Rob, lost his job in Michigan15 [or] 20 years ago and didn\u2019t have a job for maybe three months. He told me, \u201cI love that I get to walk now in the afternoon with my wife\u201d But he said, \u201cI literally was self-conscious that people are looking at me saying, \u2018He\u2019s a loser. He doesn\u2019t have a job\u2019,\u201d thinking that the only way a man can work is [to] leave the home, go to an office, go to a worksite, and then come home at dinner time or later. What you\u2019re saying is that whole paradigm is shifting in a good way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> This is a good thing from the pandemic.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s a good thing. There are different ways to work.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> A little silver lining\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014in this pandemic is that a lot of men discovered that they really did like being home more. I know that it\u2019s sort of anecdotal at this point, in the sense that you can\u2019t say, \u201cWell, here are some general principles.\u201d All you can do is give stories, so in that chapter I just have lots and lots of stories of men who found ways to be more flexible in their jobs, and who found that it did strengthen their family relationships enormously.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I\u2019m remembering, because Dave was a pastor and his schedule was somewhat flexible, he would come home early some days, and without a doubt, if it\u2019s the summer in Michigan, he\u2019s outside, and as soon as the kids in the neighborhood see that Dave\u2019s outside with our three boys, every boy on the block is in our front yard, because he knows, \u201cMr. Wilson is outside. We\u2019re going to play some game that\u2019s going to be a blast.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSometimes, we would say, \u201cWe\u2019re the only parents out there. Where are the parents? Let\u2019s play and be with our kids.\u201d I\u2019m not kidding. Kids would knock; 13-year-olds would knock on our front door, and not ask our younger children to come out and play. They would say, \u201cHey, can Mr. Wilson come out and play ball? We\u2019re playing down the street. Can he come with us?\u201d It was pretty sweet, but it also showed me they want to be with him. They want to be with a man. You were always encouraging boys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Well, the other side of that story is their dads weren\u2019t available.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Yes, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You talk about it in your book, the fatherless boys. They were either working, or they had left. They weren\u2019t home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> It\u2019s something that the church, I think, needs to think more clearly about. How do we have a ministry to fatherless boys?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann and<\/strong> <strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I think that should be a top-level ministry for churches, because father substitutes can have a tremendous impact. Church youth group leaders and youth pastors, and I have some anecdotes on that, too. A man I talked to who coaches rugby, I think it was\u2014a somewhat unusual sport; he coaches rugby, and he said, \u201cI\u2019m doing it for my kid. But you know what? I\u2019m doing it for all these other kids, too, because so many of these boys don\u2019t have a father in the home.\u201d He said, \u201cI\u2019m doing this as a ministry to these boys.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes. One of the reasons I coached high school football for 12 years is to be with my boys. That was actually motivation number one. I want to be there. They\u2019re going to be there; I\u2019m a football guy. I have a background, so maybe I can be on the field with them. But as they left, I stayed. It was that :\u201cMost of the boys in this high school don\u2019t have a dad in their home, or they don\u2019t have a good model for a dad in their home.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEvery day, as I walked down to the practice field, I prayed, \u201cGod, use me as a dad and a model in these young men\u2019s lives. They don\u2019t have a model. They don\u2019t even know what a dad looks like or feels like. I get to be a representative of You to these boys, to show them what a man is.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour last chapter is <em>The Power of a Man<\/em>. Not that women don\u2019t have power. You have incredible power, but there\u2019s a uniqueness that God has put in us as men. As husbands and dads, we can impact not just the family but a whole community.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> What\u2019s interesting to me is that even non-Christians see this. There\u2019s one non-Christian, a historian, who writes, \u201cA coach\u2019s view of manhood derives from their view of God.\u201d He said, \u201cTake the polytheistic religions.\u201d Here\u2019s his language: \u201cThey fought, they wenched, [Laughter] they elevated military power.\u201d [In] polytheistic religions\u2014think of the ancient Greek gods or the Norse gods\u2014to be a man is to be a warrior. He said, \u201cWell, there\u2019s some truth to that, but it\u2019s incomplete.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, \u201cWhat about monotheistic religions? Well, some monotheistic religions treat God as completely transcendent, separate; for example, Islam. God does not have relationship with people.\u201d I actually quote a Muslim who says, \u201cThe very idea that God would condescend to have a relationship with mere mortals is repugnant.\u201d That\u2019s how he put it. \u201cIt\u2019s repugnant to Islam.\u201d So, that view of God emphasizes power, authority; the guy on top. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen this same historian said, \u201cNow Judaism comes along, and Judaism is monotheistic, but God does have a relationship with people. God has a covenant relationship with His people, so God is a father, a loving Father. To be a man in Judaism is to be a loving father.\u201d Then he says, \u201cChristianity came along within Judaism,\u201d he says, \u201cbut Christianity complexified the view of manhood because Jesus comes as a servant leader.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave and Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u201cI come not to be served but to serve.\u201d He says, \u201cAll of a sudden character traits that were thought to be more feminine become appropriate for men, like gentleness and love and forgiveness and compassion.\u201d He said, \u201cChristianity gave rise to a much more full-orbed, balanced view of men than any other religion.\u201d I thought this was fascinating\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Me, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014that Christianity calls men to be whole\u2014not to be chopped off, just certain stereotypes, but to be whole\u2014persons made in God\u2019s image, reflecting the whole personality of God, and that even a non-Christian could see the difference that Christianity makes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s beautiful. As you ladies think of a title for God, which one comes to your mind first? He\u2019s King, He\u2019s Creator, He\u2019s the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, He\u2019s Father, Jesus was the Son. Does any one of those come as, \u201cThis is the one I resonate with the most?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I vote for Father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I thought would be true.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I think part of that\u2014if you would have asked me this years ago, years and years ago, I would have probably looked at the God of the Old Testament different than the Jesus of the New Testament. I could have seen the God of the Old Testament as being a little scary and judgmental. I don\u2019t think I had a good context of who He was. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen Jesus says, \u201cWhen you\u2019ve seen Me, you\u2019ve seen the Father,\u201d all of a sudden I think, \u201cOh! Now I\u2019m seeing the goodness of God, and I\u2019m seeing the Father piece.\u201d Yes, I would say Father, too, now, but back in the day, I was a little scared of God. I [thought], \u201cI\u2019d hang out with Jesus,\u201d and it\u2019s because some of the old pain and the wounds that I had, and the unworthiness that I felt before God. I thought that He would smite me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> And let me expand our scope a little bit, too, on how the Christian view of God has an impact in other cultures, because in my book <em>Toxic War,<\/em> I focus most on America, because you have to put limits or the book gets too big.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> But I did put some findings from other cultures, because it was just so amazing. The cultures like South America\u2014there\u2019s one anthropologist who studied Colombia, for example, a very secular person, and she expected to go in and find that the impact of Christianity would be to make men more patriarchal and more domineering. She found the opposite. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe was so stunned, she said, \u201cNo, no, no. It\u2019s machismo culture, it\u2019s the general secular culture that teaches men that it\u2019s okay to ignore your family, that you become a man because you\u2019re out there gambling and fighting. When a man becomes an evangelical Christian, he takes all his money and invests it in his family, and the family experiences a higher standard of living.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cThe whole family benefits because the father becomes engaged with his family.\u201d Here\u2019s how she put it: she said, \u201cChristianity is the best women\u2019s movement.\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Jesus was; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> And there was an even larger [study] done by a British anthropologist. She went beyond Colombia. She went into Africa as well, and Asia, and she found the same thing. Bernice Martin, I think is her name.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know how you remember all this stuff.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I am amazed at this. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> But she said the same thing. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s not liberal Christian groups that have helped women. It\u2019s these \u2018backward,\u2019 unsophisticated evangelicals who\u2019ve helped women more than any other group.\u201d She said, \u201cIf there\u2019s anything that can be called an international women\u2019s movement,\u201d she said, \u201cEvangelical Christianity is it.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was telling you earlier about a <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist, too, who wrote the book <em>Half the Sky.<\/em> It\u2019s a best-seller, so maybe some people in our audience will have heard of it; <em>Half the Sky.<\/em> He, too, says it\u2019s the Christian groups that help the poor more than any other group. They\u2019ll go out and really help these women. In the book, they say it\u2019s Christianity that has helped so many women be able to counter the alcoholism, the adultery, the other sort of traditional male vices in these cultures. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey get the church supporting them; that\u2019s how he puts it. He\u2019s not a Christian, but the church helps them, in a sense, pull men out of that secular culture into the church culture where they focus on their families, to coin a phrase.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I remember an actress on a show that we used to watch decades ago; I knew who she was because I liked the show. I remember reading a quote in a magazine that she said. She was asked if she was a Christian, and she said, \u201cI was at one time as a child, but I\u2019m not anymore because of what Jesus did to women.\u201d That was her quote. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember\u2014this was before social media. Today, I would direct message her. If I could have gotten a hold of her, I would have said, \u201cThat can\u2019t be true. If you understood what Jesus did to women in that time and that culture\u2014\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> To elevate.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201c\u2014you would not make a statement like that. He elevated women. He celebrated. He put them in\u2014\u201d It\u2019s crazy to study. You know as well as anybody what He meant for women in that time. As I think about that, I think that\u2019s what women should feel now, when we evangelical men live out our faith. They should feel seen and worthy and alive, because we\u2019re not toxic; we are the best thing that ever happened because we copy and we live as Jesus did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Yes. I do have a section in my book on how Jesus treated women. But it\u2019s also helpful to ask, \u201cWell, where did the misconceptions come from?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> There are two major places. Genesis one, where it says Eve was created, woman was created to be a help. We tend to think \u201chelp\u2019 means like the assistant. He does the really important stuff, and she\u2019s the little assistant. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I struggled with that, Nancy, when I was younger, and I thought, \u201cWell, maybe I\u2019m getting that term wrong.\u201d So I looked it up in <em>Webster\u2019s Dictionary<\/em>, and it said, \u201cA go-fer; a person who does the dirty work. Someone important tells them what to do.\u201d So, obviously, when God created a woman and He said the word, \u201chelper,\u201d that\u2019s not what He had in mind.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> You have to go back to the Hebrew, first of all. <em>Webster\u2019s<\/em> is not going to help you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes, exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> But the Hebrew\u2014it\u2019s pronounced \u201ca-zer,\u201d and in the Old Testament it is used most often of God: \u201cour ever-present help in trouble.\u201d So, clearly it does not indicate an inferior, subordinate person. The word itself does not mean that, and it\u2019s in some male names, like Ebenezer, Eliezer. Hebrew fathers would not give their sons names that meant they were weak.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Or less than.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Or less than. So the word itself\u2014I think it\u2019s very important that we explain the word \u201cazer\u201d means an ally, someone who comes to your side and helps you when you\u2019re in trouble.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Thank you, Nancy, for all you\u2019re doing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Well, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shelby: <\/strong>I\u2019m Shelby Abbott, and you\u2019ve been listening to Dave and Ann Wilson with Nancy Pearcey on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Here in just a second, we\u2019re going to hear Ann reflect on this conversation, what it meant to her, and how Nancy\u2019s time with Dave and Ann was so impactful to her. But first, we wanted to let you know that Nancy has written a book called <em>The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes.<\/em> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA lot of people ask the question, \u201cHow did this idea arise, that masculinity is dangerous and destructive?\u201d Well, Nancy talks about that in her book, and she talks about also, more importantly, how to fix it. This book is going to be our gift to you when you partner with us financially. You can go online to FamilyLifeToday.com or give us a call with your donation at 800-358-6329. And feel free to drop us something in the mail if you\u2019d like. Our address is FamilyLife, 100 Lake Hart Drive, Orlando, Florida 32832. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> As I was thinking about men leading and loving in the home, the picture that came to my mind\u2014when we were in Israel and we attended a Shabbat dinner with an Orthodox Jewish family, and it was beautiful. When the woman, the mother of the children and the wife, lit the candles, which is a place of honor, the husband stood up and then he read from the <em>Torah<\/em>, or we would call it Proverbs. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe would stand up and he\u2019d say, \u201cA wife of noble character who can find?\u201d And he would lay his hands on his wife, and he would kiss her, and then he would bless her. And then he would turn to each one of his children, and he would bless them and speak life to them. As I looked at that picture of our Heavenly Father, I thought, \u201cThis is what a man does. He looks at his wife, he blesses her; he sees his children, he blesses them, he protects them, he lays down his life for them.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave, I feel like you\u2019ve done that. I feel like you\u2019ve always done that to me. You\u2019ve done a really good job of that. You have blessed me, you honor me, you talk so highly about me, and you\u2019ve done that for the boys. You laid down your life every day for us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, there might be some toxic masculinity, but our evangelical men that are walking with Jesus, that are seeking Him, they\u2019re the ones that are representing Jesus and the church in a beautiful way and to the families. It\u2019s marking us, and it\u2019s making a difference. Don\u2019t give up, men. You\u2019re doing it!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shelby:<\/strong> Some people ask the question, maybe verbally or mostly in their head, \u201cWhat does a strong sex life hinge on?\u201d Well, we\u2019re going to talk about that tomorrow as Dave and Ann are joined by Juli Slattery. That\u2019s tomorrow. We hope you\u2019ll join us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn behalf of Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Shelby Abbott. 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I wanted to be seen by him because he was so important to me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shelby: <\/strong>Welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I\u2019m Shelby Abbott, and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. You can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> We\u2019ve been talking for the last couple of days about toxic masculinity. We have Nancy back, who has declared war on toxic masculinity. [Laughter] Nancy Pearcey is back in the studio. I\u2019m joking, but the title of your book is <em>The Toxic War on Masculinity.<\/em> In a sense, you have a fiery spirit in you. We\u2019ve talked about the journey men have been through from the Colonial Age to the Industrial Revolution.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Let me say this, too, Nancy. Am I right in saying, as you\u2019ve seen a culture defining and bashing men and who they are and how they\u2019re so toxic, did you feel like, \u201cWait a minute?\u201d I feel like you\u2019ve said that. She did kind of go war against it a little bit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> One of the things I think is really tragic is that it overlooks the fact that men and boys are actually falling behind today. They are doing worse than they did in the past. Boys are falling behind at all levels of education, from kindergarten to college. The average college now is sixty percent female, forty percent male. Graduate school\u2014more women than men are going to graduate school and even professional school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> So what\u2019s happened? Why? You know, you\u2019re the expert. {Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> You\u2019re the researcher.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Well, let me tell you more of the problem\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave and Ann:<\/strong> Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014and not just [for] boys, but men. Men are falling behind. Men are much more likely to commit suicide, to be addicted to drugs or alcohol, to be both victims and perpetrators of violence. Ninety percent of people in prison are men, and men are falling out of the workplace, by the way. The rate of employment among men today is at depression-era levels.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Wow!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Depression-era levels, and we don\u2019t know it, because they\u2019re falling out of the employment statistics. They\u2019re not trying to find work anymore, so they\u2019re not counted. And their life expectancy has gone down, while women\u2019s has stayed the same over the last four years or so. There\u2019s a publication called <em>The New Scientist<\/em> that said the major factor in early death now is being male. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI did quote, in my book, a psychiatrist. Her name is Erica Komisar, and she writes for the <em>Wall Street Journal.<\/em> She said, \u201cI am getting more and more young men into my practice who feel defeated because they\u2019re growing up in a culture that\u2019s so hostile to masculinity, and I\u2019m seeing it in my practice; young men in particular, because they\u2019re the ones who have grown up with that negative message.\u201d So, I\u2019m very concerned about boys. I have two of them. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes, and we have three. Even as we read your title, it\u2019s concerning, what\u2019s happening to boys and men today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Where do you go to say, \u201cWe have to change the narrative?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> The biggest long-term solution is fathers; fathers being more engaged with their sons. That\u2019s a problem, too, because America has the highest level of single parenthood in the world. Forty percent of children in America are growing up with no contact with their natural father. So, I have a whole chapter on fatherhood. If fathers are not involved with their children, especially their sons, their sons are going to have more trouble in school, more trouble with addiction, more trouble with crime. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI used to work for Prison Fellowship, which is an international prison ministry, and we knew all too well that most of the men sitting behind bars are coming from fatherless homes, especially violent criminals. They are coming from fatherless homes. What do we do about fathers being disrespected and mocked and ridiculed in the media? Again, everyone knows that, but they don\u2019t know where it comes from. Once again, it\u2019s the Industrial Revolution. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat happened when fathers were no longer working side by side with their children all day, day in, day out? Well, they got out of touch with their children\u2019s needs, their children\u2019s personalities and skills and talents. They no longer knew the dynamics in the household, so all they did in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century\u2014you see this in the literature\u2014people start mocking fathers and saying, \u201cOh, they\u2019re so irrelevant. They\u2019re so incompetent. What are they good for, anyway?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tActually, that\u2019s from a novel that was written in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century. One of the characters said, \u201cI can\u2019t figure out what fathers were made for anyway.\u201d So, you start to see this denigration of fathers, just because they\u2019re not there, and they\u2019re not integrated into the family the way they used to be. The long-term solution has got to be fathers. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere\u2019s a psychiatrist, Frank Pitman, who says, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to turn out better men until we have better fathers, better fathers raising them.\u201d I do have an entire chapter in the book on: what does that look like practically? Like you said, we can\u2019t undo the Industrial Revolution, so what do we do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI do have a whole chapter on men who found ways to be more flexible in their job, find ways to work two days at home, or start a home business. One person I interviewed left at 4:30 two days a week to coach his son\u2019s basketball and soccer, and his boss gave him a hard time, but it did not end up hurting his job. When his sons grew up they said, \u201cWe want to be a dad like you,\u201d which is a whole lot better than any workplace award.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I\u2019ll give you one story from the pandemic, too, because the pandemic has helped a lot of men discover, \u201cHey, I actually like being closer to my family.\u201d The <em>New York Times <\/em>had an article where the title was, \u201cDuring the Pandemic Many Fathers Got Closer to Their Children, and They Don\u2019t Want to Lose That.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I\u2019ve seen that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I love that title!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Me, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Another survey said 65 percent of men don\u2019t want to work full-time in the office anymore. They want to be at least part-time home. One of my student\u2019s husband was an IT professional who came home during the pandemic. Being home, he was able to be even more involved with homeschooling. He was able to take the kids to soccer. He decided he would do lunch every day; he would take that on. He made lunch for the family every day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHis wife, who was my student, was an opera singer. She started a voice studio, and the whole family benefitted from the additional income. When I interviewed her husband, this was the crowning point: he said the time that he used to spend commuting every morning, he now spends praying with his wife. He said, \u201cI\u2019m never going back to a cubicle.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> So, it sounds like anything a man can do to be able to navigate his job to possibly spend more time at home is definitely beneficial.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> And Millennials want that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I read a really cool article with a survey showing Millennials want to share both the bread-winning and the caretaking in a little bit more even way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I like that they\u2019re doing this. I think it\u2019s good for the kids, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I think I\u2019m old enough to have lived through several decades of watching men at work. I\u2019m glad to hear this. because it\u2019s changing. 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There are different ways to work.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> A little silver lining\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014in this pandemic is that a lot of men discovered that they really did like being home more. I know that it\u2019s sort of anecdotal at this point, in the sense that you can\u2019t say, \u201cWell, here are some general principles.\u201d All you can do is give stories, so in that chapter I just have lots and lots of stories of men who found ways to be more flexible in their jobs, and who found that it did strengthen their family relationships enormously.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I\u2019m remembering, because Dave was a pastor and his schedule was somewhat flexible, he would come home early some days, and without a doubt, if it\u2019s the summer in Michigan, he\u2019s outside, and as soon as the kids in the neighborhood see that Dave\u2019s outside with our three boys, every boy on the block is in our front yard, because he knows, \u201cMr. Wilson is outside. We\u2019re going to play some game that\u2019s going to be a blast.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSometimes, we would say, \u201cWe\u2019re the only parents out there. Where are the parents? Let\u2019s play and be with our kids.\u201d I\u2019m not kidding. Kids would knock; 13-year-olds would knock on our front door, and not ask our younger children to come out and play. They would say, \u201cHey, can Mr. Wilson come out and play ball? We\u2019re playing down the street. Can he come with us?\u201d It was pretty sweet, but it also showed me they want to be with him. They want to be with a man. You were always encouraging boys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Well, the other side of that story is their dads weren\u2019t available.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Yes, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You talk about it in your book, the fatherless boys. They were either working, or they had left. They weren\u2019t home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> It\u2019s something that the church, I think, needs to think more clearly about. How do we have a ministry to fatherless boys?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann and<\/strong> <strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I think that should be a top-level ministry for churches, because father substitutes can have a tremendous impact. Church youth group leaders and youth pastors, and I have some anecdotes on that, too. A man I talked to who coaches rugby, I think it was\u2014a somewhat unusual sport; he coaches rugby, and he said, \u201cI\u2019m doing it for my kid. But you know what? I\u2019m doing it for all these other kids, too, because so many of these boys don\u2019t have a father in the home.\u201d He said, \u201cI\u2019m doing this as a ministry to these boys.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes. One of the reasons I coached high school football for 12 years is to be with my boys. That was actually motivation number one. I want to be there. They\u2019re going to be there; I\u2019m a football guy. I have a background, so maybe I can be on the field with them. But as they left, I stayed. It was that :\u201cMost of the boys in this high school don\u2019t have a dad in their home, or they don\u2019t have a good model for a dad in their home.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEvery day, as I walked down to the practice field, I prayed, \u201cGod, use me as a dad and a model in these young men\u2019s lives. They don\u2019t have a model. They don\u2019t even know what a dad looks like or feels like. I get to be a representative of You to these boys, to show them what a man is.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour last chapter is <em>The Power of a Man<\/em>. Not that women don\u2019t have power. You have incredible power, but there\u2019s a uniqueness that God has put in us as men. As husbands and dads, we can impact not just the family but a whole community.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> What\u2019s interesting to me is that even non-Christians see this. There\u2019s one non-Christian, a historian, who writes, \u201cA coach\u2019s view of manhood derives from their view of God.\u201d He said, \u201cTake the polytheistic religions.\u201d Here\u2019s his language: \u201cThey fought, they wenched, [Laughter] they elevated military power.\u201d [In] polytheistic religions\u2014think of the ancient Greek gods or the Norse gods\u2014to be a man is to be a warrior. He said, \u201cWell, there\u2019s some truth to that, but it\u2019s incomplete.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, \u201cWhat about monotheistic religions? Well, some monotheistic religions treat God as completely transcendent, separate; for example, Islam. God does not have relationship with people.\u201d I actually quote a Muslim who says, \u201cThe very idea that God would condescend to have a relationship with mere mortals is repugnant.\u201d That\u2019s how he put it. \u201cIt\u2019s repugnant to Islam.\u201d So, that view of God emphasizes power, authority; the guy on top. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen this same historian said, \u201cNow Judaism comes along, and Judaism is monotheistic, but God does have a relationship with people. God has a covenant relationship with His people, so God is a father, a loving Father. To be a man in Judaism is to be a loving father.\u201d Then he says, \u201cChristianity came along within Judaism,\u201d he says, \u201cbut Christianity complexified the view of manhood because Jesus comes as a servant leader.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave and Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u201cI come not to be served but to serve.\u201d He says, \u201cAll of a sudden character traits that were thought to be more feminine become appropriate for men, like gentleness and love and forgiveness and compassion.\u201d He said, \u201cChristianity gave rise to a much more full-orbed, balanced view of men than any other religion.\u201d I thought this was fascinating\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Me, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014that Christianity calls men to be whole\u2014not to be chopped off, just certain stereotypes, but to be whole\u2014persons made in God\u2019s image, reflecting the whole personality of God, and that even a non-Christian could see the difference that Christianity makes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s beautiful. As you ladies think of a title for God, which one comes to your mind first? He\u2019s King, He\u2019s Creator, He\u2019s the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, He\u2019s Father, Jesus was the Son. Does any one of those come as, \u201cThis is the one I resonate with the most?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I vote for Father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I thought would be true.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I think part of that\u2014if you would have asked me this years ago, years and years ago, I would have probably looked at the God of the Old Testament different than the Jesus of the New Testament. I could have seen the God of the Old Testament as being a little scary and judgmental. I don\u2019t think I had a good context of who He was. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen Jesus says, \u201cWhen you\u2019ve seen Me, you\u2019ve seen the Father,\u201d all of a sudden I think, \u201cOh! Now I\u2019m seeing the goodness of God, and I\u2019m seeing the Father piece.\u201d Yes, I would say Father, too, now, but back in the day, I was a little scared of God. I [thought], \u201cI\u2019d hang out with Jesus,\u201d and it\u2019s because some of the old pain and the wounds that I had, and the unworthiness that I felt before God. I thought that He would smite me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> And let me expand our scope a little bit, too, on how the Christian view of God has an impact in other cultures, because in my book <em>Toxic War,<\/em> I focus most on America, because you have to put limits or the book gets too big.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> But I did put some findings from other cultures, because it was just so amazing. The cultures like South America\u2014there\u2019s one anthropologist who studied Colombia, for example, a very secular person, and she expected to go in and find that the impact of Christianity would be to make men more patriarchal and more domineering. She found the opposite. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe was so stunned, she said, \u201cNo, no, no. It\u2019s machismo culture, it\u2019s the general secular culture that teaches men that it\u2019s okay to ignore your family, that you become a man because you\u2019re out there gambling and fighting. When a man becomes an evangelical Christian, he takes all his money and invests it in his family, and the family experiences a higher standard of living.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cThe whole family benefits because the father becomes engaged with his family.\u201d Here\u2019s how she put it: she said, \u201cChristianity is the best women\u2019s movement.\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Jesus was; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> And there was an even larger [study] done by a British anthropologist. She went beyond Colombia. She went into Africa as well, and Asia, and she found the same thing. Bernice Martin, I think is her name.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know how you remember all this stuff.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I am amazed at this. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> But she said the same thing. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s not liberal Christian groups that have helped women. It\u2019s these \u2018backward,\u2019 unsophisticated evangelicals who\u2019ve helped women more than any other group.\u201d She said, \u201cIf there\u2019s anything that can be called an international women\u2019s movement,\u201d she said, \u201cEvangelical Christianity is it.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was telling you earlier about a <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist, too, who wrote the book <em>Half the Sky.<\/em> It\u2019s a best-seller, so maybe some people in our audience will have heard of it; <em>Half the Sky.<\/em> He, too, says it\u2019s the Christian groups that help the poor more than any other group. They\u2019ll go out and really help these women. In the book, they say it\u2019s Christianity that has helped so many women be able to counter the alcoholism, the adultery, the other sort of traditional male vices in these cultures. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey get the church supporting them; that\u2019s how he puts it. He\u2019s not a Christian, but the church helps them, in a sense, pull men out of that secular culture into the church culture where they focus on their families, to coin a phrase.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I remember an actress on a show that we used to watch decades ago; I knew who she was because I liked the show. I remember reading a quote in a magazine that she said. She was asked if she was a Christian, and she said, \u201cI was at one time as a child, but I\u2019m not anymore because of what Jesus did to women.\u201d That was her quote. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember\u2014this was before social media. Today, I would direct message her. If I could have gotten a hold of her, I would have said, \u201cThat can\u2019t be true. If you understood what Jesus did to women in that time and that culture\u2014\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> To elevate.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201c\u2014you would not make a statement like that. He elevated women. He celebrated. He put them in\u2014\u201d It\u2019s crazy to study. You know as well as anybody what He meant for women in that time. As I think about that, I think that\u2019s what women should feel now, when we evangelical men live out our faith. They should feel seen and worthy and alive, because we\u2019re not toxic; we are the best thing that ever happened because we copy and we live as Jesus did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Yes. I do have a section in my book on how Jesus treated women. But it\u2019s also helpful to ask, \u201cWell, where did the misconceptions come from?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> There are two major places. Genesis one, where it says Eve was created, woman was created to be a help. We tend to think \u201chelp\u2019 means like the assistant. He does the really important stuff, and she\u2019s the little assistant. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I struggled with that, Nancy, when I was younger, and I thought, \u201cWell, maybe I\u2019m getting that term wrong.\u201d So I looked it up in <em>Webster\u2019s Dictionary<\/em>, and it said, \u201cA go-fer; a person who does the dirty work. Someone important tells them what to do.\u201d So, obviously, when God created a woman and He said the word, \u201chelper,\u201d that\u2019s not what He had in mind.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> You have to go back to the Hebrew, first of all. <em>Webster\u2019s<\/em> is not going to help you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes, exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> But the Hebrew\u2014it\u2019s pronounced \u201ca-zer,\u201d and in the Old Testament it is used most often of God: \u201cour ever-present help in trouble.\u201d So, clearly it does not indicate an inferior, subordinate person. The word itself does not mean that, and it\u2019s in some male names, like Ebenezer, Eliezer. Hebrew fathers would not give their sons names that meant they were weak.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Or less than.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Or less than. So the word itself\u2014I think it\u2019s very important that we explain the word \u201cazer\u201d means an ally, someone who comes to your side and helps you when you\u2019re in trouble.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Thank you, Nancy, for all you\u2019re doing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Well, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shelby: <\/strong>I\u2019m Shelby Abbott, and you\u2019ve been listening to Dave and Ann Wilson with Nancy Pearcey on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Here in just a second, we\u2019re going to hear Ann reflect on this conversation, what it meant to her, and how Nancy\u2019s time with Dave and Ann was so impactful to her. But first, we wanted to let you know that Nancy has written a book called <em>The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes.<\/em> \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA lot of people ask the question, \u201cHow did this idea arise, that masculinity is dangerous and destructive?\u201d Well, Nancy talks about that in her book, and she talks about also, more importantly, how to fix it. This book is going to be our gift to you when you partner with us financially. You can go online to FamilyLifeToday.com or give us a call with your donation at 800-358-6329. And feel free to drop us something in the mail if you\u2019d like. Our address is FamilyLife, 100 Lake Hart Drive, Orlando, Florida 32832. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> As I was thinking about men leading and loving in the home, the picture that came to my mind\u2014when we were in Israel and we attended a Shabbat dinner with an Orthodox Jewish family, and it was beautiful. When the woman, the mother of the children and the wife, lit the candles, which is a place of honor, the husband stood up and then he read from the <em>Torah<\/em>, or we would call it Proverbs. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe would stand up and he\u2019d say, \u201cA wife of noble character who can find?\u201d And he would lay his hands on his wife, and he would kiss her, and then he would bless her. And then he would turn to each one of his children, and he would bless them and speak life to them. As I looked at that picture of our Heavenly Father, I thought, \u201cThis is what a man does. He looks at his wife, he blesses her; he sees his children, he blesses them, he protects them, he lays down his life for them.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave, I feel like you\u2019ve done that. I feel like you\u2019ve always done that to me. You\u2019ve done a really good job of that. You have blessed me, you honor me, you talk so highly about me, and you\u2019ve done that for the boys. You laid down your life every day for us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, there might be some toxic masculinity, but our evangelical men that are walking with Jesus, that are seeking Him, they\u2019re the ones that are representing Jesus and the church in a beautiful way and to the families. It\u2019s marking us, and it\u2019s making a difference. Don\u2019t give up, men. You\u2019re doing it!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Shelby:<\/strong> Some people ask the question, maybe verbally or mostly in their head, \u201cWhat does a strong sex life hinge on?\u201d Well, we\u2019re going to talk about that tomorrow as Dave and Ann are joined by Juli Slattery. That\u2019s tomorrow. We hope you\u2019ll join us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn behalf of Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Shelby Abbott. 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