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    Fixing Men: Repairing the World One Man at a Time
    Fixing Men: Repairing the World One Man at a Time
    Fixing Men: Repairing the World One Man at a Time
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    Fixing Men: Repairing the World One Man at a Time

    By Glenn Diehl

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    In the midst of societal upheaval, this exploration provides a blueprint for men to restore their roles as husbands, fathers, and community leaders. It calls for a return to virtue and integrity, anchoring actions in faith and prioritizing family and service. Through evocative storytelling and personal reflection, it inspires men to embrace an examined life, foster deeper connections, and become agents of positive change within their homes, communities, and beyond.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpines
    Release dateOct 15, 2024
    ISBN9798895690673
    Fixing Men: Repairing the World One Man at a Time

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      Book preview

      Fixing Men - Glenn Diehl

      Introduction

      The premise of this book is quite simple. Here it is:

      If you fix men, you fix marriages.

      If you fix marriages, you fix families.

      If you fix families, you can fix religious institutions.

      If you fix religious institutions, you can change the world.

      But it starts with men. So, a book entitled Fixing Men. Why? Simply put, because men are broken…only because they’re human. Anyone who doesn’t think they are or have been, at one point in their life, broken is living in denial. And there’s nothing wrong with looking at your brokenness and courageously facing it and fixing it. But first, you have to admit you’re broken. At the very least, can we agree we’re not perfect? The rest of the book is about how and why to fix us.

      A few stats on the why.

      In 1970, 4% of all children born were born into a one-parent family. As of 2022, that percentage was 23%.

      93% of all people incarcerated have no father figure in their life.

      Almost 25% of married women who attend a religious service do so without their husbands.

      When a mother attends church, her family will join her only 17% of the time; when a father attends, the family joins him 93% of the time.

      The typical U.S. congregation across all faiths draws an adult crowd of 61% female and 39% male. This gender gap exists in all age groups.

      90% of American men say they believe in God, but only 33% attend religious services weekly.

      One more stat. According to therapist Dr. Phil Mango, who treats individuals and families in any room where men are present, from a football stadium to a boardroom, 70% intentionally expose themselves to pornography at least once per month. Aside from the inherent moral issues associated with this, it points to the more general issue of simply distractions: distractions of the sort that appeal to our lowest base nature and warp our view of others as objects to be manipulated and exploited.

      Here's another common society-wide distraction. We all see stats on how much tech-based screen time people spend on a daily basis. My phone actually tracks for me how much time I spend looking at it. Just go to a restaurant and watch how many tables have patrons staring at their phones. Couples sit across from each other, and rather than communicate like humans, they drift off into text messages with people who are not even there! Perhaps they’re shopping on Amazon or watching Netflix. Or my favorite are the children who stare at their iPad minis and detach from being present to the rest of the family.

      And if it’s not a cell phone, how about the distractions of sports or gambling (which are an unholy alliance of distraction and greed), or work, or cable TV? There’s an entire industry dependent on people addicted to gambling. The radio ads are even hypocritical enough to include contact information for help lines if you have a gambling problem. It’s like handing a heroin junkie a hypodermic needle and a contact card for the methadone clinic!

      Hobbies have created an army of golf widows or families who watch their husband/father retreat into his man cave to watch sports twelve months a year. How appropriate to name it the man cave, where he can hibernate from his family!

      Our attention spans are minuscule. We’ve become an entire litter of puppies who bounce from one thing to another every time we hear squirrel! Men are simply part of the rest of the human race, which is now bombarded with options to entertain themselves with banal pursuits that leave us with no brain space for introspection. How about the ability to just sit quietly and think? The pace of life and the introduction of technology are literally crowding out our humanity.

      Men are as much victims of the environment as the creators of it. If you don’t agree that we’re not broken or imperfect, can we recognize that we’re at least anesthetized into a stupor from which we need to break free before we can even begin the fixing process? I go to my house of worship and want to scream, Wake up to the congregation in the hopes that some would choose to change course and consider living, as Socrates encourages us, an examined life. Perhaps the fundamental goal of getting fixed could be to engage in the process of living an examined, purposeful life.

      Dr. Anthony Campolo tells of a survey done of 100 people over the age of 90 who were asked, If you had to live your life over again, what would you do differently? Their answers were summarized into three responses.

      I would risk more.

      I would reflect more.

      I would do more things that would live on after I was gone.

      As he states, If we can’t learn something from a hundred 90-year-olds, we’ve lost the ability to learn anything! We need to slow down and be more intentional with our time.

      Men, if we can admit we need fixing, then it becomes a worthy pursuit. The power to change the world literally starts with us.

      One last note: there are already countless books on manhood. This book doesn’t propose to present anything that adds to the world of philosophy, theology, or psychology. Herein are unvarnished, practical thoughts on how to be a better man in the real world. By the real world, I mean the world of workaholism, saturated technology, oversexed media, and countless other distractions that keep us from addressing anything that would bring street-level, fundamental change in how we see ourselves and behave toward others each day. I hope you find something here that brings true change, growth, and transformation.

      Chapter 1

      Fixing Men

      Face it… We’re Broken

      Most of the problems in the world are caused by men being knuckleheads. Men start most of the wars, embezzle most of the money, abuse most women, and abandon most of the children. Not to diminish the impact of matriarchal societies, which have produced some of their own nefarious women, but inasmuch as history has been dominated by the effects of men making so many poor choices, we have to award the how to screw up the world award to the masculine side of the gene pool.

      Ego, the lust for power, greed, selfishness, and just plain stupidity are just some of the motives reflected in our history. Men have an innate ability to be stupid. Again, it has been men who have started the vast majority of wars. Men have built and run companies based on the exploitation of their workers. They violate women for their own pleasure and abuse and/or neglect children. Men found religions that create tenets not of self-sacrifice and service but based on control and self-aggrandizement.

      How did we get this way? My observation tells me we’re lacking positive role models. History shows evidence of families with absent or detached fathers. Children are growing

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