"This has led to all sorts of ongoing devastating consequences for human relationships including the persistence of racism, sexism, classism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia. …

It's indisputable at this point that men and boys are both in trouble and also themselves the direct cause of many of their problems”.

~ Ibid.

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"This second choice, only to address that men and boys are in trouble but not to address the ways in which they're part of the problem, again often favored by conservatives, also makes a common historical era of privileging the emotional and physical needs of white Christian men and boys ahead of the emotional and physical needs of other human beings."

~ Ibid.

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"We want to help them make the healthier and more fruitful, but difficult, choice to relinquish some status, power, and wealth in favor of improved relationships and more equitable and loving communities."

~ Ibid.

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"If we only see that men and boys are in trouble, but don't address their roles in the problem, we risk infantilizing them and under-emphasizing the role of choice and agency among men and boys in choosing to step away from radicalization, violence, and brittle masculinity."

~ Ibid., p. 80

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“The misleading depiction of Jesus as warrior, man's man—as unsympathetic, lonely, and harsh was always a caricature. That White Jesus is always eventually exposed as a straw man, an Oz shouting behind the curtain, a president reliant on spray tan and tax fraud. Jesus as he was and is offers something much more powerful and relatable."

~ Ibid., p. 78

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"By offering young boys and men a window into a nonmilitant, peaceful, loving, caring, friendly, hopeful, vulnerable, needy, well-adjusted, occasionally tearful Jesus—we can offer young, white Christian boys and men a much fuller, healthier, and more accessible vision of masculinity: one that's more reflective of the wide spectrum of masculinity and femininity occupied by both boys and girls.”

~ Ibid., p. 78

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“Reminding young, white Christian boys and men that Jesus is not a white man forces them to take Jesus and put him into a seat often occupied by people who are oppressed and marginalized, and whose strength and power are seen more often as a deviant threat than as something to be emulated and admired."

~ Ibid., p. 77

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“For all of their claims to be ‘Bible-based’ in a fallen, secular world, most of the influential male pastors trying to influence young, white Christian men and boys spend a lot more time convincing people to read their own books than they do convincing people to actually read the Bible itself.”

~ Ibid., p. 61

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“Young, white Christian boys and men have been sold an image of God, the Creator, that is wholly false and rooted not in heaven but on earth, in the hands of desperate and insecure Christian male leaders who are grasping at power, influence, and wealth.”

~ Ibid., p. 51

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“Trump's boorish comments [about grabbing women ‘by the pussy’] may not have been what [John] Piper, the proper theologian, had in mind [as he wrote that God made women to be subordinate to men], but they follow naturally from a theological model that privileges a gender hierarchy above all else and creates an image of God as power-hungry and dominating, particularly when it comes to women.”

~ Ibid., p. 48

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"Many young, white Christian men and boys saw that image in Donald Trump, who spared no words talking about his own proclivity to grab women ‘by the pussy’ and take whatever he wanted from them.”

~ Ibid.

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“Absent those tools [for building mutual relationships that are bound together not by control, authority, or obligation but instead by love and respect], young, white Christian men and boys instead often cast about for role models who fit the image of God they've been taught about: a strong and violent masculine man who rules over everything in his presence."

~ Ibid.

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“Told again and again that they are the dominant sex, created to rule over and have dominion over not just women but the earth, the land, its animals, and all things on earth—it's often a rude awakening for young, white Christian men when they enter the world and find that most created things are not interested in being ruled over by them.”

~ Ibid., p. 48

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