Sunday Essay: The Ambition Deficit in Modern Men

Why so many of today's men avoid responsibility, eschew leadership, and waste their God-given callings.

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by Virgil Walker
August 24, 2025

You’ve met him.

The beard is grown in. The bills don’t always get paid. He’s not developing skills that matter, so he leans on government programs or juggles multiple low-paying jobs just to get by. Some are still living at home well into their twenties. He insists he’s “not interested” in marriage, not because he’s an incel, but because he’s entangled in shallow relationships or enslaved to pornography. The spark is gone. His hands are idle, his eyes fixed on a screen, his life quietly drifting toward irrelevance.

He’s not hostile. He’s not dangerous. He’s just…absent.
Present in body, missing in mission.

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