News Male Rite Of Passage
Has Leaving Church Become A Sign of Manhood?
F
athers did you know that young men are leaving the faith at an alarming rate. Research indicates that more than 70%
of boys brought up in today’s’ churches abandon it during their teens and twenties. Why is this happening? We work so
Throughout human history men have
hard to train them up in the way they should
had the sacred responsibility of initiating boys
go. How could they simply abandon it after
into manhood through rites of passage. In
years of valuable training? I believe we can
primitive cultures the men capture the boys
combat this widespread tragedy – if we revive
from their mothers and take them into the
young male initiation.
wilderness. There the boys learn the ways of men. Convictions are shared. They are
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