The Ancient Word for What Safetyism Is Making of Our Men

Malakia (moral softness) is not a new problem. But we have never before built an entire culture designed to produce it.

There is an ancient Greek word that captures exactly what safetyism is doing to young men in America. It creates young men who are bubble-wrapped. The word is malakia. In his book Man Up! The Quest for Masculinity (Concordia Publishing House, 2017), Lutheran pastor Jeffrey Hemmer recovers this almost forgotten term from 1 Corinthians 6:9, where the Apos…