To launch the show, I sat down with my friend Chris Dierkes. A former monk and later Anglican priest, Chris is a husband, father, and spiritual coach, and was the co-founder of Beams and Struts. We talked about Chris' experience growing up within the white-christian-western-male trope of maleness, the archetypes and role models for masculinity, and the "rewilding of the masculine". We talked about He-Man, Star Wars, Trump, and the damage of the culture where men know they are judged by criteria external to themselves, whether or not they signed up for that.
"All men are real, there's no un-real men... Masculinity is so often defined by an external prototype rather than letting men decide for themselves what that means for them."
Music courtesy of Aaron Handford.
Episode image from La Luz De Jesus Gallery.
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