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Spring 2019

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.

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Spring 2019

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

Download a PDF of this Issue

Spring 2019

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

Download a PDF of this Issue

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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 towards 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

 
 

 

Contents

What I Knew as a Boy

Shed Building

Dating Diana

Are You Prepared for the End Times?

The Banya

Epic in so Many Ways

Why Sex Scares Me

Get Swole

Prayer and the Body

Korea X Japan

The Bikes We Ride

An Interview with Hunter Ainslie

The Goodness of Marriage

Gear Guide

The One-minute Pause

How to Get your Innocence Back

Jumping Ship

Umami

The Politics of Despair

The Power of Your Story

Finding Your Mission

 
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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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