Men in a Nihilistic Age

We’re in a cultural moment of both crisis and opportunity.

Modernity—the Enlightenment project—promised progress through reason, freedom, and universal truth.

But once it broke from the foundations that gave it life—namely, its Christian roots—its ideas began to unravel.

Postmodernism emerged to deconstruct those ideas and propose new ways of finding identity and meaning.

Yet those experiments have also failed, leaving confusion where clarity once stood.

So we find ourselves in a culture of nihilism—where nothing seems certain, truth is contested, and “everyone does what is right in his own eyes.”

The symptoms are easy to see: social fragmentation, passive bystanders, rising violence, and eroding trust.

These are not just political problems—they are signs of a deeper cultural collapse.

For men, this moment presents both a danger and an opportunity.

The danger is to follow the culture into nihilism—either by grasping for raw power or sinking into demoralized passivity. 

Both of these take us off course.

The opportunity is to recover true masculinity:

– Recognize that power is not inherently evil, but must be rightly ordered.

– Root your strength in God, not yourself.

– Use your authority to lead, serve, create, and protect.

Our cultural crisis is a proving ground.

Now is the time for men to stand firm, resist despair, and embody the kind of strength that restores order, meaning, and hope.

The collapse of modernity and postmodernism doesn’t have to end in nihilism.

For men under God’s authority, it can mark the recovery of authentic manhood and a leap forward for God’s kingdom.

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