Talk about role models for boys! How about 50 of them? In Stand-Up Guys: 50 Christian Men Who Changed the World, Kate Etue and Caroline Siegrist give fifty examples of Christian men who, motivated by their faith, made dramatic and often world-wide impacts for good.
The book highlights contemporary Christian men such at Tony Dungy, Bono, and Stephen Curtis Chapman; recent Christian men such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and J. R. R. Tolkien; and Christian men through the centuries, such as Francis of Assisi, William Wilberforce, and Michelangelo.
Well-researched, well-written, and well-illustrated, Stand-Up Guys‘ brief biographies are suitable for reading at bedtime and will captivate and inspire young Christian boys to imagine the good God has planned for them to accomplish in their lives.
While written from a liberal theological perspective, the book is still an excellent example of the kind of literature young Christian boys need. I hope it inspires more writers, especially evangelical writers, to follow their example.
This post first appeared in NewCommandment.org.
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