Writings2020-12-01T21:31:22+00:00

Slow Sex: Why Men Must Learn Presence—and Why Women Deserve More

By |December 2nd, 2025|Categories: Addiction, Domestic Violence, Healing, Marriage, Masculinity, MensWork, patriarchy, Pornography, Relationships, Sexism, Sexuality, Shame|Tags: , |

  Healthy sex with your partner is not about practicing some new sex tip you saw on TikTok or a new performance strategy you researched while watching [...]

How Men Categorize Women—and Why It’s Killing Intimacy

By |November 20th, 2025|Categories: Addiction, Church, Domestic Violence, Healing, Masculinity, MensWork, patriarchy, Pornography, Relationships, Safe Church, Sexism, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, women|Tags: , |

Men are taught early on to categorize women. We do this unconsciously and instinctively, often forming this approach in adolescence. It’s part of the socialization of masculinity [...]

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The Seduction of Men’s Recovery Groups

By |October 10th, 2025|Categories: Addiction, Domestic Violence, Healing, Marriage, Masculinity, MensWork, patriarchy, Pornography, Relationships, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Shame, Uncategorized|Tags: , |

Men’s recovery groups matter. They give men a space to practice honesty, connection, and vulnerability — a place where deep shame and sorrow can finally be spoken [...]

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I Want to Be Like Jesus, But I Don’t Want to Be Abused

By |October 1st, 2025|Categories: Death, Domestic Violence, Forgiveness, God, Grief, Healing, Kindness, Masculinity, MensWork, Relationships, Sexual Abuse|Tags: , , , , |

“Well, I don’t want to be just like Jesus because he is dead,” my 5-year-old son blurted out one morning on the way to school. His deadpan [...]

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Sex or Slaughter: When Male Connection is Reduced to Intercourse or Violence

By |September 11th, 2025|Categories: Addiction, Death, Domestic Violence, Healing, Marriage, Masculinity, MensWork, patriarchy, Pornography, Relationships, Safe Church, Sexism, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Shame, Violence, women|Tags: |

  For many men, intimacy comes in only two flavors: sexual conquest or violent confrontation. We have been socialized, almost from birth, to face another man eye-to-eye [...]

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