What is a Man?
Join us March 31st in Central, VA for our annual Tabernacle Event! Click here to sign up. Reach out if you want to try Titans - Our new...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 6 min
Into the Unknown: Adventure in the Church
Chicken Or The Egg? In our last newsletter, we talked about the history of church and masculinity. Today, we turn to the Sunday Schools...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 8 min
Manhood in the Church
Upcoming Events Join us the weekend of March 31st for our annual Father-Son Retreat. Help us start a sports ministry at your church with...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 7 min
Rites of Passage
In the beginning of this story on affirming boys in manhood, it was just a group of men going to the mountains with their sons. ...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 8 min
Our Solutions Coming in 2023
BLUF We are piloting programs for our two experiences in 2023. Click here to view our website (still in beta). Click here to donate to...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 6 min
Our Manifesto
Tolkien One of my favorite lines in all literature is from J.R.R. Tolkein’s, “The Hobbit”. It is the place where Bilbo Baggins steps out...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 5 min
Competency & Learning Objectives
We’re getting closer to the end of the philosophical discussion around the problem of ‘lost boys’. That’s the good news. The bad news is...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 6 min
Spiritual Formation In Children Pt. 2
Review In our last newsletter/podcast, we talked about spiritual formation in ages 5-12 and highlighted the idea known as the age of...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 8 min
Philosophy of Spiritual Formation
It’s time to start looking into the spiritual formation of boys and how we effectively grow or develop into spiritual beings. It’s the...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 11 min
Why "Treign" Up?
The bulk of our letters thus far focused on identifying the problem statement and its root causes. Here’s what we have so far: Treign Up...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 13 min
Denial of Biblical Manhood
In this podcast, we will look at the third (and final) reason that boys are lost in today’s culture: Distortion and denial around...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 10 min
Education is Failing Boys
In our last podcast, we addressed the primary cause of the boy crisis in America as deprivation of intentional fathers in a nuclear...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 10 min
Dad Deprivation
THIS is not about THIS As we begin our search for ways to address the problems of boys in crisis, we need to start with a disclaimer; an...
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Ben Smith
- Mar 7, 2023
- 15 min
Treign Up Intro
I never imagined I would start a project like this. Really, it was never on my radar. The first time the thought even crossed my mind...
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