Reviving A Lost Tradition: St. Michael’s Lent

Reviving A Lost Tradition: St. Michael’s Lent

August 15th marks the start of a 40-day program for men to take up spiritual disciplines of prayer, asceticism, and fraternity  An ancient tradition is being revived by the team behind the popular men’s spiritual exercise Exodus 90.  Starting on...
Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross

“And as they led [Jesus] away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.”  Luke 23:26. On an unusually beautiful Northwest winter morning, 20 men from our fraternity (Psalm 51:12 “Renew a...
Making Sense of David

Making Sense of David

A “man after God’s own heart,” and, yet, an adulterer. He was chosen by God and given an everlasting covenant so that his descendent would remain on the throne forever. He seemed more interested, however, in consolidating his power and building himself a house,...
Try, Fail, Surrender

Try, Fail, Surrender

The basic dynamic of growth in the spiritual life comes through the three-step process we can summarize as Try-Fail-Surrender. This might seem surprising. For men it certainly sounds undesirable (feeling weak is the primary source of shame for men). All the same, we...