Many men that didn't serve in the military have a sense of regret or shame. They wonder, do I have what it takes to have been a good soldier, airman, or seaman? Impressed by Hollywood visions of the military, they go through life feeling like they missed out on something incredibly manly. Maybe you did, but maybe not. Here's my take on it and some thoughts on how you can still challenges yourself as a civilian.

We've grown too accustomed to treating nature like a supplement instead of recognizing it as the most natural standard of our being. In this episode I talk to those dealing with anxiety, some of the reasons it has increased in modern times, and how nature can help heal it.

Navigating in-laws or your own parents involvement in a newly married relationship can be a challenge. We're called to honor our mother and father and certainly that extends into adulthood. But we also called to leave and cleave as it were to our new family. As men, it's our responsibility to lead those dynamics and ensure boundaries of our new primary family are honored.

Unlike the way social media portrays success, for those of us who life in reality life has a lot of ups and downs and unexpected twists. As men, we need to respond to those as gracefully as possible without completely losing our perspective on the bigger picture.

The history of achievement is the history of skeptics buried with their disbeliefs, nameless and unknown to the common man who daily enjoys the fruits of the visionary.

My generation, Gen X and Xennials, are still thinking that our lifespan will be around 100 years old, with the latter years not being so great. It's time to change that perspective and start preparing for a much longer lifespan than our parents and grandcestors.

I don't often rant, but this way of thinking has really gotten under my skin. There is a too common belief right now that the world is far too dangerous to bring a child into. It's absolutely nuts.

Just when I dared to hope that wokeness was on it's final breath, I experienced it in both subtle and not so subtle ways in a group of Christians. Third Way Christianity is something we need to be very aware of.