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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Interview: Nancy Pearcey – The Toxic War on Masculinity

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg talks to Nancy Pearcey, author of The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes, about the competing ideas of masculinity, the “good man” versus the “real man,” expectations of men in the pre-industrial age, the stats on Christian men today, “boy culture,” and more.

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You

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All right friends great vocal here stand a reason in

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and we're going to devote this entire hour to conversation with a dear friend and

0:38.1

someone who's had a tremendous impact on the body of Christ for a long time.

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She's the author of Love by Vibody. She is the author of Saving Leonardo and

0:49.6

finding truth and famously total truth, all award-winning bestselling books.

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Noted by Christianity today is one of the five top women apologists in the country.

1:02.2

Of course I'm talking about Professor Nancy Pierci and in my view Nancy you are the number one

1:08.9

woman apologist in the country so you got the top votes for me so glad to have you on board.

1:14.8

Thanks so much and thanks for that compliment I appreciate it.

1:17.8

Yeah I think the last time we were actually together other than this time on screen here was

1:22.0

when we were in Israel together in 2019 what I want an amazing trip and it was just great to

1:28.7

kind of sit in the bus together or was it traveling around and comparing notes and it just it

1:33.8

was really a fabulous opportunity to get to know you better and I really enjoyed that.

1:38.8

I want to start this book with the way you started it. This book we're talking about is the toxic

1:44.7

war on masculinity, subtitle how Christianity reconciles the sexes. It is in a certain sense

1:53.0

I don't want to say a controversial book so much but a controversial topic clearly which I think

1:58.7

why is why you write the book and just so you know I'm not the only one on my team that has read

2:03.2

this book you get rave reviews from everybody there's the bearded beast over there. Kyle he's

2:09.0

given a thumbs up and Amy's halfway through when she's really really enjoying it and I the same.

2:15.1

It's a complex book though because it's a complex issue so we're going to hit some of these things

2:18.9

out. I want to start the way you start the book and your first words the first line and I

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