Jagged Word Field Guide To Being A Man (eBook)

PART ONE: FREE TO BE A MAN

The Lost Art of Masculinity • 3 

Live as the Men You Are Called to Be • 6 

Your Girlfriend Is Stronger than You Are • 10 

What Kind of Man Are You? • 13 

A Wasted Life? • 17 SCOTT KEITH

We Are Not Descended from Fearful Men • 21 

The Masculine Spirit • 25

Manhood and the Totin’ Chip • 29

Strapped! • 32

Lessons from a Son • 36

And Then I Made It Home • 39

Spiritual Masturbation and Masculinity • 41

Wall Building as a Christian Virtue • 45

On Receiving Criticism • 48

Growing Old • 52

Want to Be an American Sniper? • 56

PART TWO: WORKING FOR OUR NEIGHBORS

Where Is All the Cool Stuff? • 61

Why Aren’t You in School? • 64

Passion Is Overrated • 67

We Don’t Need Sports • 69

The Garage vs. the Man Cave • 73

Radiators and Hair Buns • 76

Old Books and New Pulpits • 78

The Granite Never Lies • 81

PART THREE: FAMILY

The Barber Shop • 85

A Little Adversity Can Go a Long Way • 87

You Are Not as Fragile as You Think You Are! • 90

The Worst and Best Seventy-Two Hours of My Life • 93

Send Your Kid to Camp • 96

Allow Your Kids to Do Hard Things • 99

Yes, I Brainwash My Children, and So Do You—So Do It Well • 101

A Healthy Reliance! • 104

Duty vs. Virtue • 107

A Society without Father • 110

Kids Are Too Damn Busy . . . Families Are Too Damn Separated! • 113

Home Sweet Home • 116

The Head of the House • 119

No Father → No Faith? • 122

Nobody Is Happy When a Helicopter Is Hovering over His Head! • 125

The Land of Safe and the Home of the Always Successful • 129

The Ten Commandments of the Modern Parent • 132

Father Absence and a Sibling Society • 135

Happy Wife, Happy Life • 139

Women Weaken Legs! • 144

I Can Dooey It! • 148

To Esther • 152

Scared Shitless • 155

Adultery • 157

Paralyzed by Fear • 160

The Father in the Middle • 162

If God Is Better than My Father, He’s Really Good • 165

Through the Father’s Eyes • 168

Like Father, Like Son • 172

Father Knows Best • 175

The Awesomest • 179

A Good Father • 182

Father Fails and Forgiveness • 186

PART FOUR: FRIENDSHIP

It’s OK That We’re Not Friends... I Like It That Way! • 191

Finding My Brother • 194 

Guns, Beer, and  Biblical Translation • 198 

In the Company of Great Men • 201 

Dangerous Friendships • 204 

A Gathering of Men • 207 

The Names I’ve Forgotten • 210 

Mutual Brotherly Consolation and Forgiveness • 213

The Rebellion of Friendship • 217

The Joy of Sex and Church • 220

Welcome to the Rebellion • 223

I Am Frodo Baggins • 226

Friendship • 230

PART FIVE: GOOD SMOKE, GOOD DRINK, AND GOOD FELLOWSHIP

Simple Pleasures, Brotherhood, and Calm Delight • 235

How the Cigar Can Save America • 238

The Argument against Pipe Smoking • 241

Pining for Grandpa • 247

Manhattans, Decorative Swords, and a Mack Truck Ashtray • 250

Bibliography • 255