In an era when every institution from the academy to the church is working to deconstruct masculinity, It’s Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity by Michael Foster is a refreshingly direct and practically useful corrective. This is not a theoretical treatment of gender philosophy — it’s a handbook, as the title says, written for men who want to know how to actually live as men in the 21st century.
Foster’s approach is grounded in Scripture and shaped by a recovery of the classical Christian understanding of manhood: men are made to be providers, protectors, and priests for their households. That is not a cultural imposition — it is a design specification. Men who live according to that design flourish. Men who abandon it do not, and neither do the women and children who depend on them.
The book covers the practical dimensions of biblical masculinity with specificity that many similar volumes avoid: work, marriage, fathering, leadership in the local church, and the formation of communities of men who hold one another accountable. Foster writes with clarity and conviction and without the apologetic hedging that weakens too much contemporary Christian writing on gender.
Good stuff here for modern living. If you have a son, a grandson, a young man in your church who is adrift in a culture that tells him his masculinity is a problem to be managed rather than a gift to be developed, put this book in his hands.
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Book Details: Publisher: Canon Press | January 4, 2022 | 272 pages | ISBN-13: 978-1683593683