Men Erased: Owen Strachan Interview

The Becket Cook Show

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5 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In today’s episode, Becket chats with Owen Strachan about his new book, “The War on Men: Why Society Hates Them and Why We Need Them.”

Strong men are not “toxic.” If they go away, evil men take their place, and weak men offer no resistance.

The idea that masculine men—assertive, risk-taking, single-minded—are a problem to be solved threatens our whole society. The cultural elites cheering the decline of men are trying to erase God’s design for half of the human race—the half that historically provides, protects, and leads for the good of others. The disappearance of the masculine ideal is bad news for men, and it’s terrible news for women.

What will happen without men of courage and conviction? Who will do the hard jobs that no one else can do? Who will be left to face down evil, strengthen families, build churches, and bolster communities? Owen Strachan addresses those questions in this compelling new book, an inspiring blend of cultural analysis, biblical teaching, and passionate exhortation. Cutting through the ideological fog, he explains what’s at stake. If men are told they’re not needed, they disappear, becoming lost men. They get frustrated and lash out, becoming angry men. They go alpha and chase their lusts, becoming exaggerated men. Or they lose their masculinity and embrace effeminacy, becoming soft men.

And yet there is hope, rooted in the wisdom and grace of God. In His kindness, He transforms lost, angry, exaggerated, and soft men into a force for good in this world.

Male or female, if you want to understand manhood better, if you are tired of feminized men, this book is for you. It’s for struggling sons, disillusioned friends, discouraged coworkers, confused college students, disheartened grandfathers, concerned mothers, and everyone in between.

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0:00.0	Life Audio
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0:26.0	Please consider subscribing to the podcast and leaving a five-star rating. Hey guys, welcome to the show.
0:37.0	Today I have a special guest, Owen Strand, and we're going to talk about his new book called
0:45.6	The War on Men, Why Society Hates them, and why we need them. Owen Strand is provost and research professor of theology at Grace Bible Theology Seminary and a senior
0:59.1	fellow with the Family Research Council.
1:01.4	He has a PhD in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is he's
1:07.8	the author of 20 books, wow and including re-enchanting humanity and he lives with his wife and family in Conway, Arkansas, but first a word from our sponsor.
1:22.2	Welcome, Owens Strand.
1:24.0	Thank you so much, Beckett.
1:26.0	Thanks for having me on.
1:27.0	Good to have you, and I'm excited to talk about your book, The War on Men.
1:31.0	Now, the obvious question is is what motivated you to write this? A lot of
1:37.5	different factors. The chief of them would probably be caring for men wanting the good of men feeling strange in that
1:46.1	regard because it feels like you're wanting the good of dinosaurs or something equivalent to that in
1:51.3	2023 you want the good of men. Men are having their just desserts and eating them too.
1:56.7	They've been patriarchal and oppressive for centuries, even millennia, and now they've had a brief intermission where they're not in charge and so they whine.
2:05.4	But in reality if you think about like the little phrase,
2:08.8	uh, masculinity is toxic, it's not just that someone like me as an adult man or you is affected by that at some level.
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