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A message from a mate of mine, Adrian Rowse, about some “Fight Nights’ in and around Melbourne. We’re hosting the Eastern Region night, so come along if you can.
Just letting you know that there are three Fight Nights coming soon in
Melbourne as part of Roundabout Ministries ‘Fight Nights 07′ Tour. We’d
love your help in making […]

Biddulph’s final (and short) chapter in Manhood is a brief challenge for the guys to get together and be real with each other, talking about life and all that it entails. He says that men’s groups are vital for the men’s movement to bring about a balance in the health and well being of men.
Of […]

As 2005 recedes into the past and 2006 looms full of new hope and dreams, it is perhaps fitting to end my journey through Steve Biddulph’s book Manhood by looking at what he calls, “The Time of the Ashes.”
Eventually, all men learn that not everything works out in this life. The mid-thirties seem to […]

The Wild Man lives in every man. He is beautiful and divine. He has enormous fundamental energy and a great love for the world. He is just as much a nurturer and protector and creator as any female figure, but he will do that nurturing and protecting in his own masculine way. It is time […]

Continuing my reflections on Steve Biddulph’s book Manhood. Because of its length, and the weighty issues involved, I’ll split this chapter up into parts.
Biddulph’s final chapter looks at three things that affect us at our deepest being. He calls them initiation, the wild man and the time of the ashes. All three things are […]

How come, when you’re a boy at school, you hang out with your best friends, walk around with your arms around each others shoulder and share all your deepest secrets, yet when you become a man, real male friendship all but disappears?
Steve Biddulph suggests two things:
1. We’re scared people will think we are gay.
2. Our […]

Sorry for the delay in posting more of my reflections on Steve Biddulph’s Manhood. Let’s try and finish this thing in the next two or three weeks, eh?
Chapter nine deals with what we men tend to spend most of our time doing – working. And if we were honest, it is probably where we tend […]

Perhaps better suited to his book Raising Boys, Steve Biddulph spends chapter eight of Manhood talking about how we can better prepare boys for the transition to manhood by getting their school environment right. In this short chapter, Biddulph suggests seven areas that would be a good starting point for school reform:
1. Male teachers available […]

Just to follow up from my last post on Manhood I thought I’d post three resources that I’ve found quite powerful in challenging me about what it means to be a Dad. They’re probably not what you would expect, but then again, either is being a Dad…
Rohald Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World.
I read […]

The church where I first became a pastor was in a very wealthy area of Melbourne. Families had large houses, numerous nice cars, all the latest gadgets, the right clothes ad the best education money could buy. Yet, the young people I interacted with in the local school were just as isolated and lonely as […]