There are different kinds of strength. We tend to associate the word with big muscles and athletic prowess. Or maybe we think of inner strength, a kind of unshakable resilience that allows a man to weather life’s storms and accomplish something noteworthy. But whatever form it takes, masculine…
Masculinity. We can barely utter the word without adding qualifiers like: toxic, orhealthy, orbiblical, ortraditional. Alone, it is treated as a pathology: dangerous, outdated, or oppressive — something to be managed rather than modeled.
Some men walk well-worn paths. Others have to blaze the trail themselves. When Christopher first walked into his Trail Life Troop in upstate New York, there was no blueprint waiting for him. The Troop was new—still small, uncertain, and figuring things out. There were no older boys to follow, no…
At 15 years old, most boys today are hardly expected to get themselves up for school on time. But that’s not because boys are incapable of taking responsibility and being dependable. It’s because we don’t expect them to. We hesitate to trust them with real responsibility.
There are moments in a boy’s life that look small from the outside. A ceremony. A decision about where to spend Thursday nights. A choice of which friends to run with. But heaven and history both know better. Because a life is often steered—not by one critical moment—but through a series of…
Quinn was almost home when he saw her. A car sat disabled on the shoulder, hood raised. A young woman stood in front of it, shoulders tight. She looked flustered—clearly having a rough day.
Richard Braly is a new Trail Life Registered Adult volunteer and the father of a six-year-old Trailman. Like many Trail Life leaders, Richard was a Boy Scout, froma Tiger Cub all the way into adulthood. As a teenager, he worked as a counselor at multiple BSA summer camps in Texas and Oklahoma.…
The last night Jonathan Gordon spent with Trail Life Troop MS-0356 was bittersweet. As the Court of Honor ceremony came to a close, Jonathan knew this chapter was ending so another could begin. After more than three years of growth and brotherhood, he was stepping away—not to leave the mission…
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