Building Brotherly Bonds in a Lonely Culture & the Outer Banks of North Carolina

Our culture has divorced love from friendship, and our relationships are thin and destitute.

I suspect everyone by now has seen the moving video of an army veteran on a suicide hotline being comforted by a police officer on the side of a busy highway. The clip is several years old. It ends with a humble request for a hug before it cuts away. I have seen it a few times and find the entire scene a dramatic re-enacting of the lack of cohesive bonds in our culture, especially among men.

I wish to briefly address what must take place within the body of Christ so that such incidents are avoided or, at the very least, learned from. There is too much at stake, and the unrelenting attacks on manhood in our day will compel this misery unless God, by the power of the Spirit, reorients our attention to a renewed brotherhood.