Reclaiming Fatherhood: A Father’s Irreplaceable Role

 “Men, do not hesitate to engage in the battle that is raging around you, the battle that is wounding our children and families, the battle that is distorting the dignity of both women and men. This battle is often hidden, but the battle is real. It is primarily spiritual, but it is progressively killing the remaining Christian ethos in our society and culture, and even in our own homes.” ― Bishop Thomas Olmsted, Into the Breach

I don’t need to tell you that our culture is hopelessly confused about everything having to do with sex and gender. As conservative commentator Matt Walsh showed powerfully in his documentary that went viral on Twitter recently, there are a growing number of people who can’t answer as simple a question as, “What is a woman?”

But it’s not just womanhood that we are confused about. Our culture is riven by debates and competing messages about the nature of “real” manhood and “real” fatherhood.

On the one side we see messages suggesting that “real” manhood is expressed in an exaggerated androgyny based upon the notion that any expression of traditionally “masculine” traits is fundamentally “toxic.” On the other hand, one finds messages suggesting that a “real” man must always look and behave like the stereotype of an action hero: physically powerful, emotionally stunted, and in perpetual need of attaining dominance to prove his masculinity. …

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