Is Sacrifice the Missing Link to Manhood?

At St. Andrew’s Academy, headmaster Ben Strong is teaching boys the virtues of wonder, responsibility, and giving.
Is Sacrifice the Missing Link to Manhood?
Manual labor, especially when done in community, helps boys transition from passivity to participation and generous self-sacrifice. Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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What does it take to transition a teenager into manhood?

Since the turn of the century, a small army of authors, commentators, ministers, and psychologists has run through millions of words trying to answer that question. They recognize that today’s teens are facing impediments to manhood—the absence of fathers in many families, for example, or the prevalence of pornography and addictive video games—that previous generations rarely, if ever, encountered.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.