A sustained shot of brilliance…By turns tight and exuberant, disciplined and expansive, the collection shimmers with insight and moments of perfectly realized beauty. No moment has been more despairing than listening to Susan Collins, a woman, a senator, say that Christine Blasey Ford was likely assaulted but that it wasn’t by Kavanaugh—to hear one woman say to another woman that she doesn’t believe her, among a chorus of white men who decry what has been done to Kavanaugh, that he is the victim, not Blasey Ford. To Be a Man reflects his deep learning, humility, personal struggle and decades of experience as a therapist, clinician and healer. Meanwhile the hills surrounding the unnamed city, which may be Los Angeles, are ablaze; everything is suddenly unfamiliar. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krauss's stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength.

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To Be a Man is insightful, practical, and most importantly transformative for the healthy development of men.

Each story in “To Be a Man” is governed by its own unique and intricate logic, yet the stylistic differences are never gimmicky. He tells men how to focus on the right goal, how to live as a beloved son of God, of the need to acknowledge one�s faults and to live according to the Holy Spirit, to be a man of true love and of wisdom, to appreciate properly the differences between men and women, to pursue holiness, and to make a difference in the world. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Throughout the book, Krauss weaves present-time situations with emotional, ancestral echoes of destruction and deep, unburied grief. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Richards recounts his own struggles to learn true manhood and he shares inspiring personal stories from men he has counseled and served in his decades of being a priest.

The world scooped me up and gave me a warm welcome in places I could never before have entered comfortably, and many of the people closest to me turned away, betrayed by a transition they took personally.Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. To Be a Man challenges current ideas about maleness and offers a road map to a deepening, fulfilling, and awakened masculinity. But once they are brought out into the open and respected/honored — which takes courage — they can coexist with the capacity to express anger skillfully and take strongly directed action, empowering men in ways that serve the highest good of all of us. Lesbians, my wife for example, have expressly defined their desire in opposition to men but not to butches and to boys (that is, tomboys).