HeyJaredManhood Reimagined
Exploring a positive vision for manhood (that is good for men, women, and children) in the 21st Century and beyond.
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Top Shelf Masculinity (opens the original)
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Over the past few weeks, I have been tracing some of the masculine scripts that shaped me before I had the language to examine them.I learned to associate manhood with usefulness, competence, certainty, achievement, and emotional control. I became very good at earning evidence that I mattered. Eventually, I carried those lessons into ministry, where performance could be spiritualized as calling, sacrifice, and faithfulness.But the performance did not end with public goodness.While publicly servi
Can You Stay? (opens the original)
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The masculine stories I inherited knew what to do with a dragon.Identify the threat. Find the weapon. Enter the cave. Defeat what stands in the way. Return with proof that you were strong enough to overcome it.This is not a useless story. Courage matters. Action matters. There are moments when love asks us to confront danger, protect another person, make a decision, or keep moving through fear.But some parts of life are not dragons.Some losses cannot be defeated. Some consequences cannot be reve
I Wasn’t Trying to Be Saved. I Was Trying to Be Seen (opens the original)
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In the first piece in this series that flows on further reflection from my conversation with Richard at Mindful Masculinity, I wrote that manhood was caught rather than taught. I learned early that a man should be useful, competent, certain, and accomplished. I learned that being needed could feel close enough to being loved.So I achieved.I moved quickly through Scouting and became an Eagle Scout at thirteen. I chased good grades.
Manhood Was Caught, Not Taught (opens the original)
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Nobody sat me down when I was a boy and handed me a definition of manhood. They didn’t need to. I watched who spoke and who listened, who made decisions and who adjusted around them, what earned praise, and what caused discomfort. I noticed which emotions were welcomed and which ones made the room tighten. I watched what the men around me did with work, tenderness, conflict, bodies, money, uncertainty, and pain. Then, like every child, I drew conclusions.Recently, while talking with Richard at M
A Manhood That Fits (opens the original)
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This is the third piece in what has become a short series on patriarchy, templates, and men’s pain. The first two pieces (The Take On Patriarchy We Argue With and The Template Over the Body) were mostly about naming the machinery. This one is about practice: if we are not trying to fit ourselves into the old mold, what does the journey of manhood actually look like?The danger with critique is that it can leave us with a ver
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