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Jason Wilson continues this impactful book, The Man the Moment Demands, where he challenges and dismantles preconceived notions of masculinity. The book helps men of all ages understand the root cause of their trauma, fear and unresolved anger, discover the characteristics that lead to comprehensive manhood, and find strength in vulnerability. It encourages men to release any emotional suppression and offers actionable steps in each chapter.
GUMEC
What inspired you to write this book?
JASON WILSON
Well, my martial arts training started with one of my instructors who taught us to be anything and everything at any given moment. That’s when I realized I needed to be more than just a puncher or a kicker. I need to know how to grapple and other things and then studying and following Christ, I realized that he was a comprehensive man. Wasn’t just masculine. He was courageous but also compassionate, strong and sensitive. And so the 10 characteristics actually lay out the blueprint of what he embodied for us all. And so as men, we often say, Erica, that we do all things through Christ.
The question I ask them is, can he do all things through you? The title is basically for men who are tired of being the wrong man in the moment.
GUMEC
I love when you’re talking to a young boy, and then you bring their father over and you also talk to the dad in a nice way, man where does that come from?
JASON WILSON
You know in my community in Detroit, you know, the gold standard was the hyper-masculine black male. And so I put on the suit of a thug, even though my heart was too big for it. I made an acronym for a thug. It’s a traumatized human unable to grieve. And This is why they wear tattoo tears and the anger and the depression and the apathy. And So what I do for the boys and men, I be what I didn’t see. I gave them what I longed to receive from my own father and the men in my family who only had one gearing, manhood.
And so one of my desires is also to eliminate intergenerational trauma. So we start with the boys, but also when we bring the fathers into the training, now we stop it in them because the majority of us as men we walk around with broken boys inside.
And now, Erica, I have a waiting list for me and for me to do The Cave of Adullam. My desire is to scale. And I just realized recently that the best way to scale is to make it a school. Could you imagine The Cave of Adullam around the core classes, but The Cave of Adullam is physical education. And so they get emotional stability training as well as the spiritual training as well, but also their core classes and that’s what we’re striving to when we pilot the we pilot it in the summer camp this summer called Cave Camp so keep us in prayer.
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