The Print Issue:
Volume 2
Every year, the tribe grows.
This issue, the And Sons team leveled foundations and joined wood, asked mentors how to love the girl, worked toward structured lives, hunted, cooked, watched out for snipers in Ukraine, fished for tuna, and rode the heck out of some mountain bikes.
Carpentry, prayer, weightlifting, Russian steam rooms, calling, marriage, hunting Hawaii, and more.
112 Pages
8.25" x 10.75" Perfect Bound
Soft-Touch Cover
Foreword
You’ve picked up a magazine by guys who love Jesus.
We talk about initiation and the young man’s soul. There’s no better description for what’s happening here. An initiation is a beginning. It’s the way in to a process that builds maturity.
A funny story about this issue: While building my shed, I routinely conned Sam into manual labor by offering him a ride home, then driving to my house instead, where I needed help with some carpentry. This isn’t the kind of thing we’d endorse, but it’s practical. Anyway, I’d wrung a fair share of labor out of Sam, maybe 10 hours, when he announced he planned to demo and replace his kitchen floor. Of course he meant I’d better help, so I did. We tore out tile, and then a subfloor, and then some very vintage linoleum. And then more linoleum. And then a little more. We found a veritable baklava of kitchen floors.
It’s an easy metaphor: however deep you go, there’s a layer deeper. Tear up the floor—there’s more floor below. That’s always true of initiation. An initiation is a beginning. Try making ramen: dissect the bowl, and you get the fillings and the broth. Dissect the broth, and you get kombu, katsuobushi, miso, sake, salt, pork fat, etc. It’s not so much you learn to make ramen. You learn how to learn how to make ramen. This is the life of the apprentice: making ourselves students, finding the foundations, trying to live it ourselves.
We want to understand the soul—how it grows and functions and thrives. We want to understand how young men become good men. Hopefully, the best men you know. We know the way to do all this is to make ourselves apprentices. Of manual labor. Of travel. Of loving. Of Jesus. Yup, of ramen, too.
This issue, the extended And Sons team leveled foundations and joined wood, asked mentors how to love the girl, worked toward structured lives, hunted, cooked, traveled, and quit. One guy watched out for snipers in occupied Ukraine. One guy stayed out all night catching tuna. A couple dudes rode the heck out of some mountain bikes. A couple dudes worked toward a monastic life.
Welcome back. This is your tribe. And Sons. An exploration of the young man’s life, made by guys living it, too.
– Blaine Eldredge
What’s Included in Vol. 2
Contents
004 Foreword
006 Letters to the Editor
008 What I Knew as a Boy
012 Shed Building
018 Dating Diana
022 Are You Prepared for the End Times?
026 The Banya
030 Epic in so Many Ways
036 Why Sex Scares Me
040 Get Swole
046 Prayer and the Body
048 Korea X Japan
054 The Bikes We Ride
064 An Interview with Hunter Ainslie
074 The Goodness of Marriage
077 Gear Guide
082 The One-minute Pause
088 How to Get your Innocence Back
094 Jumping Ship
096 Umami
100 The Politics of Despair
104 The Power of Our Story
110 Finding Your Mission
Contributors
Writers
Blaine Eldredge, Dan Allender, John Eldredge, Jon Dale, Josh Skaggs, Luke Eldredge, Sam Eldredge, Sam Jolman
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Andy Busch, Blaine Eldredge, Danielle Schmidt, Eli Pyke, Hunter Ainslie, Jared Sayers, Josh Skaggs, Kaikea Nakachi, Katie Winkenhower, Luke Mitchell, Mark Mitchell, Richard Seldomridge, Sam Ainslie, Sam Eldredge, Wookie Jones
ARTWORK
Albrecht Dürer, Blaine Eldredge, Wookie Jones
DESIGN & LAYOUT
Wookie Jones
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