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Play the man

'Christian men are wimps!' The charge is often to be heard on the lips of non-Christian men and Christian women. What is the true meaning of masculinity?

Jonathan Stephen

Previous generations of schoolchildren were stirred by the words of Hugh Latimer to his fellow-bishop Nicholas Ridley, as they were burned at the stake during the reign of Queen Mary: 'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.'