Beyond the sports and weather chatter and silence that characterize many male conversations, there is often brokenness. Emptiness. Shame. Have you ever been pushed into a men s group, because someone said it was the right thing to do? In Bond of Brothers, Yoder calls disappointed, disenchanted, and lonely men to authenticity. To rediscover joy, to find satisfaction, by finding out what real male friendship and relationship is all about. In Bond of Brothers, we will discover: * Why our career and performance at work are not our identities* How to defeat the fears that come to us in the Tough Years * What to do when we are too worried to forgive or too hurt to smile* Why spiritual friendships are the central, life-giving core of all healthy relationships among men. Yoder says that being there to comfort, to love, to listen, to take a step toward Jesus together in our brokenness that is the essence of friendship. Instead of pushing or being pushed into men s groups, learn with others how to invite friends along. Begin a journey toward authenticity and your true identity. Starting here Beyond the sports and weather chatter and silence that characterize many male conversations, there is often brokenness. Emptiness. Shame. Have you ever been pushed into a men s group, because someone said it was the right thing to do? In Bond of Brothers, Yoder calls disappointed, disenchanted, and lonely men to authenticity. To rediscover joy, to find satisfaction, by finding out what real male friendship and relationship is all about. In Bond of Brothers, we will discover: * Why our career and performance at work are not our identities* How to defeat the fears that come to us in the Tough Years * What to do when we are too worried to forgive or too hurt to smile* Why spiritual friendships are the central, life-giving core of all healthy relationships among men. Yoder says that being there to comfort, to love, to listen, to take a step toward Jesus together in our brokenness that is the essence of friendship. Instead of pushing or being pushed into men s groups, learn with others how to invite friends along. Begin a journey toward authenticity and your true identity. Starting here "

A man kills his wifes loveralmost. The criminal is Gideon Banks, a sculptor of modest success who has finally realized that he is incapable of repairing his broken marriage. Now on the run from the law, Gid is joined by Merithis adopted, introverted sonand John Frederick White, and old turnip grower, the singer of a thousand songs, and Merits best friend.For the length of a college football season the unlikely trio embarks on a quest along the highways and back roads of Alabama, laying bare in the process a landscape of poverty and isolation. This rural setting erodes when a rich stranger in Birmingham is enamored by their tale and agrees to take them in. Sheltered in a grand house, ever so close to being caught, Gid, Merit, and John Frederick must now confront both their personal struggles and a shocking past they have come to share.Prescient in its grasp of politics and social discontent in the present-day South, Carry My Bones is a bracing debut by a writer of rare empathy.