Just to be clear, I am not affiliated with Aaron Renn so this post is not meant to be marketing material at all

Recently my friend forwarded me an email newsletter called "The Masculinist" by Aaron Renn. I've only read the first two articles of his newsletter and so far I find that he gives very lucid and thoughtful commentary on the intersection between Christianity and Masculinity, specifically within the Western world. It seems pretty RedPill and counter to what a feminized church would teach (ex. #8 Stop Apologizing and #10 The International Man of Mystery).

I think his email newsletter would probably be very interesting to subscribers to this subreddit. Here are the topics that he's written about so far:

  • 1 Introduction - very similar to the “welcome” message for this list, but with some additional material
  • 2 Skills – the importance of regularly acquiring new skills. (Accountability point: I am now in my second year of studying French)
  • 3 The History of Church and Men
  • 4 Helping Men and Women Meet in the Church
  • 5 What Does It Take to Be a Man? – How the church fails to understand the essence of masculinity, and some consequences thereof.
  • 6 How to Establish a Consistent Prayer Life – I got some nice feedback on this one.
  • 7 Accountability for Failure – The church loves to slam people in the world for their words and deeds, but there’s been little accountability in the church for catastrophic errors related to sex and relationships (purity culture, Mark Driscoll)
  • 8 Stop Apologizing
  • 9 Preaching What We Practice – The church’s surprisingly weak and unenthusiastic endorsement of its own nominal teachings on marriage.
  • 10 The International Man of Mystery – Maintaining a sense of mystery in relationships is more important than transparency, at least initially
  • 11 Has the Church Become an Unwitting Enabler of Family Breakdown?
  • 12 How to Improve Your Posture
  • 13 The Lost World of American Evangelicalism – If you came because of Rod Dreher’s excerpt, please do read the whole thing.
  • 14 An Antifragile Church – a look at the work of Nassim Taleb, which is profound and extremely favorable to the church

My friend kindly emailed me all the articles he's written so far in .html files so if anyone is interested in them, PM me and I can forward them over to you.