The military displaced pastors as the primary site of Christian manhood formation

Evidence

WITH THE RENEWED MILITARISM of post-9/11 evangelicalism, pastors like Ted Haggard, Mark Driscoll, and Doug Wilson preached a militant Christian masculinity. But in the age of the War on Terror, pastors weren’t necessarily the most effective purveyors of Christian manhood. The military was where boys became men, and where men matured in the Christian faith. Military men, then, could serve as guides for civilian men, and for the church as a whole. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 485

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• XREF: connects to: Boykin cultivated Christian nationalist networks in the military and disaster-relief NGOs — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 95