I’ve been a pastor for 40 years. Young men are struggling and I think I know why

Young men aren’t toxic, so much as they are unformed. The major paths to community, life advancement, and social and personal intelligibility have all more or less disintegrated in the past few decades. That disintegration was accelerated dramatically, even completed, by the pandemic.

Which means that men aren’t getting the formation they desperately need to become good men — and that they have historically received.

One in four of American young men report feeling lonesome. Many of...