When Does a Boy Become a Man?

Here's another good rites-of-passage article bemoaning the lack of them and suggesting the need for them. This author summarizes some ceremonies from other times/cultures and then draws the Christian line of demarcation from I Timothy 4: 12.

He elaborates with six admonitions that will help boys focus on attaining manhood:

• In Word
• In Conversation (defined as the manner of conducting oneself in the world)
• In Charity
• In Spirit
• In Faith
• In Purity

The article can be found in the Fundamental Perspective blog: When Does a Boy Become a Man?

Also, this seems to be linked to a Forming Leadership in Youth conference: FLY Conference