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      With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson
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      New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
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      With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson
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      Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
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      Meet Pete Hegseth, the Man Who Will Lead the Entire US Military — A Man Deemed an ‘Extremist’ by the US Military
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      The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right
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Joseph Gelfer

Joseph Gelfer is founding and managing editor of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality . His book, Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy is forthcoming from Equinox Publishers.

Culture, Politics/LawJuly 3, 2009

“Menergy”: Men’s Ministries and the New Masculinity

By Joseph Gelfer

The Promise Keepers have gone from hugging and shedding tears to doing battle for the Christian Right.

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