Interview: Pastor Rich Lusk on Masculinity and the Church

Hard Men Podcast

Eric Conn

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this episode, I talk with Pastor Rich Lusk from Trinity Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama, about the state of masculinity in the church today. We talk about why the church's softness on Genesis 1-3 has weakened its ability to respond to cultural issues related to sex and gender distinction, and why psychologists like Jordan Petersen are often better than Christians at pointing to reality.Show Notes: Rich Lusk recently spoke at the Stronghold Men's Conference. Solomon S...

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Hard Men Podcast, reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of
0:06.9	softness. Welcome to this episode of the Hard Man Podcast. I am your host Eric Kahn and
0:20.4	today we have a special guest, Pastor Rich Lusk, Trinity Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
0:28.0	Rich is an author, pastor, and he's spoken at several conferences about the topic of gendered piety and in particular about masculinity.
0:37.0	So thanks for listening and sit back and enjoy the show. Well, welcome to the Hard Men Podcast. I am your host Eric Kahn, and today we have a very special guest. We have
0:57.0	Pastor Rich Lusk. Rich, thanks for joining us today on the show.
1:02.1	Yeah, great to be with you.
1:04.5	So, Rich, I want to start off really a conversation
1:08.2	that we had on Facebook regarding the overall state of sexuality in the church and the culture and one of the
1:16.6	words that you use was gendered piety and one of the questions I had asked you there I
1:20.8	just want to ask you here now as well. And that is what is it that you see about the state of sexuality in the church? It seems like a lot of people are afraid to talk about masculinity and femininity, especially what's going on with political correctness,
1:35.0	critical race theory, all these things. So kind of overall, what do you see happening
1:39.5	in church and culture on that front?
1:41.0	It's a good easy question to get us started off here. You really know how to throw the ballballs out here.
1:47.0	Yeah, we live in a land of confusion. We live in a time when people are rebelling against the way God made the world and we are seeing the fruits of that rebellion all around us in either the failure of families to form or family disintegration.
2:06.5	We see it in the fatherlessness crisis,
2:08.9	which I think really stands behind a lot of those other crises
2:11.5	that you mentioned.
2:12.1	We see it in all of the wreckage that has come from the sexual revolution.
2:16.0	And instead of repenting of the sexual revolution, the culture continues to double and triple down on the sexual revolution,
2:23.6	thinking, well, if we just have a little more revolution, we'll finally
2:27.1	get the results, the happiness that we want. And I think that we have to be honest and
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