Thoughts on “Masculine Christianity”. Something of a Review.
(Updated 30 July 2025) Zachary Garris is pastor of Bryce Ave Presbyterian Church (PCA) in White Rock, New Mexico. In 2020 he published the 312-page paperback, "Masculine Christianity" with Reformation Zion Publishing. The following is something of a review. To begin, I appreciate what seems to be Garris’s intent – the desire to confirm that men are to be men (a good thing) and women are to be women (a good thing), and reaffirm men taking leadership in their homes and churches, etc. It’s good for women to be women and men to be men. With this, I deeply appreciate his push against pornography and men seeking to ‘conquer’ women by means of sex (164-5). Second, our denomination (the Presbyterian Church in America) is complementarian, and complementarianism is a spectrum. On one side is the egalitarian, and if you fly off at that end you’ll be with the egalitarian-ists. The other side is patriarchal, and if you fly off that end you’ll be with the patriarchal-ists. The "is...