Michael Liccione has a great post for fathers day on his blog Sacramentum Vitae. (Along with reading some uber intelligent points, I learned what fungible means also)
http://mliccione.blogspot.com/2010/06/fathers-are-not-fungible.html
Here are my thoughts. We fathers, and men in general for that matter need to move past the hippy mindset of our fathers generation, who conceived of patriarchy as something just south of Hitler on the authority scale. We need to see it through the eyes of the gospels, where true masculinity and patriarchy was shown. Christ, the strongest, most masculine man who ever lived, could not by the most rabid feminist be called a dominating, oppressive, patriarch. His great strength was shown in sevice and love. If we cultivate these virtues as fathers in His kingdom, the watching world will be silenced. We have a ways to go, (I know I do at least) but the world is waiting. Lets stand up and serve, men!
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