“At the Institute, we help you equip the men you have, and reach the men you don’t…”
— Dr. Chris Harper
Most men ARE Drowning in an ocean of cultural confusion:
In the 1970’s predominant culture said ‘I don’t need a man.'
In the 1990’s it became ‘I don’t want a man.'
Today, we are asking ‘What is a man?'
Men need Advocates:
Western society has largely rendered manhood obsolete. AI tells men that their wisdom is not needed. Automation tells men their strength is unnecessary. Progressive culture tells men their gender is irrelevant. And the Church, through it’s conscious and unconscious catering to women and children, has conveyed to men that their presence is optional. The result is generations of men living lives of quiet despair:
50/80%
men have the highest rate of suicide
[men account for 50% of the population, but 80% of the suicides].
2.4Million
colleges are pink—there are now 2.4 million more female than male undergraduates on college campuses.
77%
men suffer symptoms of a mental health condition [anxiety, depression, stress] yet nearly half have never spoken to anyone about it.
93%
of prisoners are men [men receive harsher punishment than women for the same crimes].
1 in 3
men report having no close friends or friendships at all
65%+
of Millennial & Gen Z men grew up without a father figure in their lives.
14
[Since Title IX] Girls are 14 academic points ahead of boys—this stat holds true from kindergarten to graduate school.
7MIllion
able-bodied men are current unemployed and/or not looking for work.
7%
360,000+ Churches in North America. 80% have a thriving women’s ministry, less than 7% have a thriving men’s ministry.