Join the
Non-toxic Masculinity
Launch Team
Hello Friends!
Thanks for your interest in joining the Non-Toxic Masculinity Launch Team. The purpose of this group will be to gather invested readers and supporters of the book to connect, engage with me as the author, and help promote the book when it’s officially released on April 4. You’ll have the opportunity to read the book early, ask me questions as you read, and connect with others who are reading the book pre-release.
As a first-time author, having people in my corner and willing to tell others about the book is a huge help, so thank you for considering. It’s my hope and prayer that this book can have a positive impact for re-humanizing men and women in the church, and I’m grateful for your partnership in this effort!
In hope,
Zach
Launch Team Overview
Read
the book early.
(We’ll provide you with a password-protected PDF to read while you wait for your physical copy!)
Recommend
the book to friends.
(in-person and on social media)
REVIEW
the book on Amazon and other e-retailers.
Pre-Order
the book at your preferred bookseller or directly from Intervarsity Press.
Sign UP Now
Once you have ordered the book, sign up below to join the launch team. We’ll follow up with your free PDF and further communications as we approach the release date!
Launch Team Perks
Start reading the book over a month early!
Exclusive access to a community of early-readers, as well as Q&A with author, Zachary Wagner.
Regular updates about interviews, seminars, and other special events leading up to and after the book’s release.
Launch Team Expectations
Pre-order the book! (If you haven’t already.)
Tell your friends about the book! (This helps create an organic buzz about the book’s release and builds momentum to reach a larger audience.)
Review the book on Amazon, GoodReads, or other online platforms. (This helps others hear about the book and boosts its visibility across the web.)
Who the Book is For?
“This book is about male sexuality and, particularly, what has gone wrong with male sexuality in conservative evangelical churches. Even more specifically, this is a book about how purity culture has––despite the best intentions of many––contributed to the cultivation of toxic masculinity in the church. I want to suggest that this broken masculinity is not merely a failure to live up to purity culture’s ideals, but is, to some extent, the result of purity culture itself.
In these pages we will explore how the church has imported many of the wider culture’s unhelpful ideas about sex and masculinity. We will also see how it mixes these assumptions with poor theology and sub-biblical ideas about humanity, redemption, sin, and temptation.
I have written this book primarily for men because it is men who need to change their attitudes and behaviors around sex. But I hope many women will read it too. I hope advocates for victims of abuse will read it. I hope mothers of young daughters and sons will read it. I hope it will be a helpful resource for pastors, leaders, and theologians.
The cultural criticisms of this book are not an exercise in man hating. They are instead a serious call for male accountability. Doing so is actually pro-male, because holding men accountable comes from an earnest desire to make men better. But beyond accountability, the church and our culture desperately need a positive vision for masculinity.”
(Non-Toxic Masculinity, p. 10)