Chase Replogle's Blog

It’s been over a year since I released The 5 Masculine Instincts. I wrote the book because, as a pastor, I saw the way so many men were wrestling with questions about masculinity and how the broader cultural conversation seemed to be leading to more online debates than actual Christlike growth in the lives of men. That trend continues. There are more books, more articles, and more controversies. Drop the word masculinity on Twitter, and like raw meat thrown into the river, the piranhas swarm. So...

I believe it is a truth that a mother is made over a matter of months, but you always become a father in a single moment. I remember that moment well. The birth of our first child was full of complications. Hours of labor were induced by a rising blood pressure, alternating cycles of magnesium and then Pitocin, and platelet levels too low for an epidural.

After being diagnosed with preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome, the first dose of magnesium gave my wife enough time to sleep before the induc...

Every semester, my Bible College held a separate men’s and women’s chapel, and every year we talked about the same things. My roommate would customarily joke, “Boys, today’s the day we’re reminded that the girls are princesses, and we’re perverts.” And every year, he was pretty much right. Usually, it was the sex talk, sometimes rounded out with warnings about money and power too. While the girls were told how much God loved and valued them, we were told to grow up. 

Any of us could have led ...

The 5 Masculine Instincts is full of the books that have impacted me over the last decade of reading. I’ve gathered up a list of some of the books and authors that have most shaped my work. 

Books are always written and informed by other books, Books are a part of wider and older conversations. That is certainly the case with The 5 Masculine Instincts. While the book is about masculine instincts it’s really a book about cultivating Christian character, so it has been deeply influenced by so m...

Men are not all the same. I see it as a pastor, as a brother, and as a dad. What motivates one man puts another to sleep. What one man would give his life to protect another wouldn’t lift his hand to defend. But it also feels naive to suggest there is then no such thing as masculinity. As if every man was a species unto himself. Get a group of men together and even amongst their differences, you’ll find common experiences, struggles, and temptations. These commonalities are not superficial. The...

Previous Post in This Series: The Two Ditches of Toxic Masculinity: Noah and The True Complexity of What is Wrong With Men

The Bible warns of man’s tendency to over-identify with his impulses of aggression and passivity, a topic I’ve explored at length in a previous article. But the Bible is also careful not to present these traits as mere personality types. We make a profoundly naive mistake in imagining that some men are aggressive while others are passive. As if the difference can be l...

Previous Post in This Series: A Good (Definition of) Man Is Hard to Find: How We Define Manhood and Masculinity

I’m aware; toxic masculinity is a phrase of extreme controversy. Wrapped up in the phrase are hotly debated ideologies, fueled by very different perspectives on what a man is and should be.

At the center of these masculine critiques is a concern of over-identification with the attributes of violence, aggression, and dominance. In 2018, The American Psychological Association r...

Previous Post in This Series: The Male Malaise: Why Confusion About Masculinity is Causing Too Many Men to Disengage and Check Out

The past years have seen a massive spike in debates, articles, and books on the topic of masculinity, most centered around a call to redefine what masculinity means. What does it mean to be a man?

We call for it constantly. Be a man. Act like a man. Man up. Real men don’t…

But it’s worth asking yourself, do you have a good definition for it? How would yo...

“The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.”
― Flannery O’Connor, The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South

We are facing an epidemic of discontentment and disillusionment amongst men, particularly those like myself, millennials. We’ve been told our entire live...

Last week I got my hair cut. My barbershop has been feverishly adding locations and rebranding itself in an attempt to monopolize the cutting of all men’s hair within a 50-mile radius. As their website puts it, they are just “your traditional neighborhood barbershop and the future of men’s grooming.”

The nostalgia of your grandpa’s vintage aftershave, now with a whole new line of male hair care products, complete with old-fashion lather shaves, mounted taxidermy, white subway tile, and antiqu...