Mohler is the only person among many today who profoundly disagree with me that I can safely lash out at, from the safety of a computer. How’s that for manly?!

Really, though, I think Mohler’s problem, and it is a serious one, is that he doesn’t take Jesus into account when he talks about men (and, by extension, doesn’t take Jesus’ mother or great-grandmother into account when he talks about women, not to mention his g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandmother and beyond. There’s a reason Matthew includes those women in the geneology). Jesus calls all men into the embodied care of people, not away from it. Best I can tell, contemporary calls to the renewal of “biblical” manhood contradict the very things Jesus was about, in part because it uncritically accepts a model of “masculinity” that ignores Jesus own “man-hood.”

I joked about fighting him because his argument is just a Southern Baptist version of the central argument of Brad Pitt in Fight Club.

Seriously though…
The Bible clearly defines men and women’s roles, so what’s wrong with masculinity…and I’m not talking about machismo…
With that said I would love to see your minivan with a “sack” on it…Lord know you needs some more of those in your house.

Maybe you’ll get a Bob the Builder this time instead of a Dora the Explorer.

Seriously, though. Notice that he doesn’t mention any passages to support his crazy position on masculinity. That’s because masculinity is a social construct.

Mohler also seems to forget that Jesus himself exhibited none of the supposed qualities of a real man, but instead was financially supported by women, hung out with children and other needy people, and never bothered to get married. Someone should have made Jesus read Wild at Heart.

As someone who has done a variety of work, including my fair share of manual labor, I wouldn’t say that staying at home being a homemaker was the “manliest” thing I’ve ever done (though no less manly than driving to work and back in rush hour traffic, pathetically confined to my car. I need to get one of those man-sacks to hang from the back of my car to let everyone know that despite being stuck in traffic, i’m pretty manly), but it was the most Christian I ever felt.