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Episode 170: Kristin Kobes Du Mez - A Modern Church History of Toxic Masculinity

The Bible For Normal People

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The Difference Between Healthy and Intoxic Masculinity

Macho is a very fluid concept. It's whatever people think ascribes to being a man, whatever goes along with being a man. Some of these things can be very good things, like honor and honesty and courage. But when things move in the more toxic direction, i think that's when we start getting defined in a sence in opposition to as opposite from whatever gets in the femininity mocks rt. And that's exactly what we see happening in the christian literature here. There are so there's so much within this cultural baggage that gets baptized as biblical manhood or biblical womanhood. And it affects sexual morality and power dynamics. So you asked about john wayne

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