We are live now on the Conversation That Matters podcast. I'm your host, John Harris. I hope everyone's doing well today.

Finally, spring has broken in New York. So I'm actually kind of happy. It tempts us. It goes back and forth. But it looks today like it's pretty solid. So we'll find out in a minute how things are going in Ohio and other places. I heard Michigan just got like dumped on with snow.

So it's that time of year. But there's a lot going on, obviously in politics, in the world.

I guess there's not a time when there's not a lot going on. But right now in particular,

there's maybe like three or four things that I've been thinking about a lot. And one of those

things has to do with masculinity. What

does it mean to be a man? And more than that, what does it mean to be a mature man? I think a lot of

people have a very distorted view of what being a man is. They're kind of climbing out of a

feminized culture, but what direction to go in is a bit of a mystery. And to help us clarify

some of that,

I have probably the best guess that I can think of for the program.

We've had him on once before after he wrote his book,

It's good to be a man.

He's a pastor at East River Church,

the director at a director at Maddox.

And his website is,

This is Foster.

You can also go to an event that he has scheduled July 16th through 18th at East River Church and Batavia, Ohio.

Find out more about that on his Twitter, which is also at This Is Foster.

Without further ado, Michael Foster.

Michael, thank you for being on the podcast.

Yeah, glad to be here again.

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