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There's no doubt about it.

Masculinity has fallen under criticism.

We hear the term toxic masculinity.

And that very quickly morphed into, well, all masculinity is toxic, not just some.

How did that happen?

How does the world get masculinity wrong?

And what does Christianity offer as a correction?

We're going to be talking about Christianity's response to toxic masculinity.

Professor Nancy Pierci joins us.

She's professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University.

She is author of several books, including her latest to the toxic war on masculinity.

How Christianity reconciles the sexes.

Professor Pierci, welcome.

Oh, thank you. It's good to be here.

What is the biggest difference, according to the numbers between men who attend church regular Christian men and nominal Christian men?

Oh, that's a great question, because that's at the heart of the book.

What I do in the toxic war on masculinity is I equate people with what the studies have shown.

There have been a lot of sociological studies done on evangelical Christian men.

And by the way, some people ask me, why did I focus on evangelicals?

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