Article December 10, 2007 Issue

REAL MANHOOD CHOOSING THE KIND OF MAN YOU'LL BE

KEITH WOMMACK

Union of the masculine and feminine qualities constitutes completeness.—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.57

Some believe that life's milestones shape the man—his first date, first job, fatherhood. For KEITH WOMMACK, a Christian Science practitioner and teacher who lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, such events may have been the crucibles that tested him. For Keith, though, the true tests come almost daily, in choosing whether to define selfhood in spiritual or material terms. He and staff writer Warren Bolon recently talked and exchanged e-mails about manhood and the choices we make. Here are excerpts from their exchange.

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