If we block the tears, if we stay tightfisted, we deny power that is given to us through them. – James O’Dea

Article Degrowth

The Great Simplification

By Nate Hagens

The Great Simplification will be the era of the 21st century where we unwind a lot of the complexity built into our system over the last century of fossil fuel addiction. It doesn't have to be a disaster, but it's going to mean a different sort of existence. VIDEOS | INTERVIEW

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Article Colonization

Erasure of Indigenous Identity

By Martin Heavy Head Jr.

"Toxic masculinity paints us as skilled warriors who hunted Buffalo with our bare hands, gnashing meat off the bone, and made ridiculous powerful love every night. There’s no time for Gardening when you’re doing all those manly things, now is there?"

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Article Wayfinding

Finding Ben | Mental Health, Justice, and Healing

By Robert J. Rosenthal

After his son took his own life, a veteran journalist finds healing and hope in a San Quentin Prison men's group called Guiding Rage Into Power (GRIP). A new journalism Fellowship for improved mental health reporting gives voice to the silenced. VIDEO | ESSAY | INTERVIEW

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Conversation Community

Trauma and Healing for Boys and Men of Color

By Jerry Tello, Jason Seals, David Bouttavong

Activists and leaders explore the deep traumas they and their communities suffer from, and how to develop strategies of responsibility and accountability that face the truth, but also create conditions for deep healing and prevent these wounds from undermining families, communities and selves.

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Mixed Media Music

Taimu Shakuhachi Flute | Art of Emptiness

By Cornelius Boots

“It is invisible, etheric as is the air itself. We dissolve dichotomies with this instrument, yet the sacred masculine has certainly fueled the making and playing of this flute.” RECORDINGS | VIDEO

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Credits

Staff and Advisors

The Sacred Masculine 

Introduction

Editorial
Masculine/Feminine | A Non-Binary View
Rhonda Fabian
keynote
In Search of the Sacred Masculine
Jason McLay

Articles

Degrowth
The Great Simplification
Nate Hagens
Colonization
Erasure of Indigenous Identity
Martin Heavy Head Jr.
Wayfinding
Finding Ben | Mental Health, Justice, and Healing
Robert J. Rosenthal
Unlearning
Blueprints for Men
Mark Grayson
Belief
Climate Crisis | A Problem of Myth?
Travis Sheehan

Conversations

Initiation
Ritual Fire and Sacred Masculinity
Amos Kamil, Boysen Hodgson, Chris Henrikson
Community
Trauma and Healing for Boys and Men of Color
Jerry Tello, Jason Seals, David Bouttavong

Galleries

Refugees
Adrift in the World
Helen Zughaib 
Ethics
Lessons from the Ancient Samurai
Yoichi Utebi

Mixed Media

Film
A Cloud Never Dies | A Film about the Life of Thích Nhất Hạnh
Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism

Essays

Stories of Hope
Baptism of Fire
Mike Bell
Stories of Hope
The Butterfly Man in the House of Pain
Scott Lennox
SUICIDE CRISIS
Dusty and Me
Kent Madden
Suicide Crisis
Reflections on Outliving My Son
Michael Gray
Brotherhood
Awakened Life!
Awakened Life Men's Collective

Poetry

One Final Inning in St. Louis
Shawn Aveningo-Sanders
Wolfsblume
Christi Krug