How have our modern technologies transformed the lives of young men? This week, Jake Meador joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss the cultural forces shaping men and masculinity today, the ways technology has reformed masculine formation, and the relationship of men to the new right.

Jake Meador: ⁠"Four Types of Christian Cultural Engagement"⁠

Katherine Dee: "How the Internet Made the Far-Right"

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, First Things, National Review, Christianity Today, and more. He is also a contributing editor at Plough and a contributing writer at The Dispatch.

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Take a peak behind the curtain with Bryce and Ashley as they discuss some of the articles they've been mulling over recently. Bryce and Ashley discuss the existence of double standards against men today, the cross-gender pornification of our culture, the desire men and women feel for discipleship, and how we can meet those desires in ways that are both affirmative and redemptive.

The Agenda:

- Jen Hatmaker and the double standard against men

- Is hypermasculinity a problem?

- The shift from individualism to mob identity

- Pornography is a violent hallucinogen

- Reflection questions!

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How safe should we be? This week, Jeremy Lundgren joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss the cultural pressures of 'safetyism' today, the shifting ways humans have related to safety across history, and the spiritual good of healthy risk in childhood.

Jeremy Lundgren is director of the Nicolet Bible Institute and a professor of theology at Wheaton College. He is also the author of The Pursuit of Safety: A Theology of Danger, Risk, and Security.

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What is it to be a man or woman, according to the Bible? Sam Allberry joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss the relationship of culture to the biblical vision of masculinity and femininity, the need for both grace and truth in discussions of gender today, and the constance of God's grace and presence in uncertain times.

Sam Allberry is an apologist, speaker, and pastor at Immanuel Nashville. He is the author of several books, including Is God Anti-Gay?, Seven Myths About Singleness, and What God Has to Say About Our Bodies.

Sam Allberry - "How Should We Think About Gender Identity?"

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How do we actually form men? Bryce and Ashley sit down with Chris Bruno of the Restoration Project to talk about rites of passage, how men are formed, and what healthy masculinity looks like.

Be sure to register for Restoration Project's free Restorative Manhood Digital Summit, taking place on Sept. 25-28, 2025. (If you're listening after the event, see the Grove Collective to get access).

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Note: This conversation was recorded before the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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Welcome back! On this season of The Cartographers, we are looking at Redeeming Manhood. In this episode, Bryce and Ashley map out what experts are saying about men, note the unique challenges young men and boys face in our society, and begin to present a vision for a redeemed masculinity that is neither a social construction nor a 1950s stereotype.

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In this episode of the Cartographers, we sit down with Kyle Strobel, professor at Talbot Seminary, to get at what spiritual formation is and isn't. It isn't a life hack or even growth. Find out more about Kyle, his substack and his courses here.

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Brad East joins us to talk about Gen Z, the rise of magic, and what it might take to make Christianity weird again in a secular age. Tune in for a fascinating, down-to-earth conversation about what faith in Christ offers the world.

Brad East is a professor at Abilene Christian University and we talk about his CT article, "Make Christianity Spooky Again." His most recent book is Letters to Future Saints.

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Gordon T. Smith joins us to talk about the position of the church in a secular age. Do we stay put? Do we form a moral enclave? How does worship form us into disciples?

Join us for this conversation on the words and practices that form our imaginations: liturgical and sacramental.

Gordon T. Smith is currently president of Ambrose University and the author of several books. We focus the conversation on his book Wisdom from Babylon and mention Evangelical, Sacramental, and Penecostal.

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"Maybe religion, for all of its faults, works a bit like a retaining wall to hold back the destabilizing pressure of American hyper-individualism, which threatens to swell and spill over in its absence.” So writes Derek Thompson in The Atlantic.

In this episode, as part of the series on worship and formation, Ashley and Bryce discuss Thompson's article, trends in churchgoing, the role of technology, and what the church is for.

Resources discussed:

“The True Cost of the Churchgoing Bust” By Derek Thompson in The Atlantic

Kirsten Sanders' substack series, including this article, "My First Advice Column"

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