The Heart of a Man: Restoring the Rite of Passage resources, guides, and ceremony format is based on the experience and tools I have used over the last 20 years helping prepare and equip adolescents boys through their passage into manhood. Many of those boys, who are now husbands, and fathers, have reached out to me to express deep appreciation for the experience, guidance, and tools I provided during their passage and journey into manhood. However, the Rite of Passage ceremony impacts more than the boys who go through process.
This unique rite of passage ceremony touches the hearts and lives of every single participant involved in the ceremony as well as mothers, grandparents, wives, siblings, friends, as well as future wives, children, and generations to come.
It is my hope and desire that you too will experience and receive the joy and great reward that I have received participating in preparing and equipping boys for their journey into manhood. And that multitudes of hearts will be touched across our nation as we restore the rite of passage and build the next generation of men together.
Shannon A.
- This book is a short read and well worth your time, especially if you are a father, caregiver, or mentor to a boy or young adult man—or a young man yourself. The author expresses the need for providing boys with the proper path to manhood—which is solely missing in our society here in the 21st century—and provides the steps to get there. It’s easy to let our young men figure out life for themselves, but that may be an irresponsible approach on our part. James Thomas and his colleagues are stepping up to the plate and trying to help, in a kind and nurturing way. Becoming a man is a difficult and confusing process. Let’s help show the way!