Dane Ortlund: Young men today lack social skills

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Date posted:  25 Nov 2025
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Dane Ortlund: Young men today lack social skills

Dane Ortlund. Photo: Keswick Ministries

Popular pastor, author, and speaker Dane Ortlund says young men who learn basic social skills will be "in the top three per cent" of their peers.

Setting out a checklist of behaviours which he says they should learn, he claims that "rudimentary inter-personal skills" are getting rarer year by year.

In a post on social media platform X, the well-known US author of Gentle and Lowly and Surprised by Jesus addresses "young men", and implies that 97 per cent of them currently lack simple relational tools in the areas of conversation and courtesy.

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