Parenthood

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Parenting 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...

The 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...

For Teens–A Future Conversation with the Parent You Love to Hate

I 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...

My 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...

So You Had a Bad Dad

I 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...

Four 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,...