Feb 7, 20163 minParenthoodParenting Advice from Hell(Update: This was written several years ago; I now have only one teenager left. And yes, the following is truer than ever.) This spring I...
Apr 2, 20154 minChurchThe Danger of Romanticizing “the Ministry”I watch boys on Wednesday nights. Lots of rambunctious, loud, sweaty, muddy-sneakered boys in continuous motion. I can barely keep up...
Feb 9, 20153 minParenthoodFor Teens–A Future Conversation with the Parent You Love to HateI called my dad this morning to recommend a great movie I watched last night, The Music Never Stopped . That’s one of the many things my...
Oct 28, 20144 minFaithMy Young-Earth Creationist Beat Up Your Old-Earth Evolutionist (Things Some Christians Like to Say)Yesterday after school my young daughter burst into the kitchen and announced, with all the alarm of a good little evangelical, “Mom! My...
Jun 15, 20142 minChurch So You Had a Bad DadI can imagine some who read my annual Father’s Day posts on social media may feel slighted in the Daddy-hood department. Of course you...
Mar 25, 20142 minParenthoodFour Things You Are Not, and One Thing You Are (How to Define Yourself)It’s a Saturday afternoon and I’m standing before an overcrowded room of sleepy moms at nap time. Before I launch into my speech outline,...