From CNN.com: “For the first time in history, women are better educated, more ambitious and arguably more successful than men.”
You can read the full article here. Below are two paragraphs which should stir all of us within the church:
Today, 18-to- 34-year-old men spend more time playing video games a day than 12-to- 17-year-old boys. While women are graduating college and finding good jobs, too many men are not going to work, not getting married and not raising families. Women are beginning to take the place of men in many ways. This has led some to ask: do we even need men?
So what’s wrong? Increasingly, the messages to boys about what it means to be a man are confusing. The machismo of the street gang calls out with a swagger. Video games, television and music offer dubious lessons to boys who have been abandoned by their fathers. Some coaches and drill sergeants bark, “What kind of man are you?” but don’t explain.
Are we teaching boys how to be men in our churches? Sports can be a great context to do so.
