“Guns don’t kill people – our sons do” . . . .
That was the headline over Warren Farrell’s op-ed piece in yesterday’s USA Today. Farrell has written on the development of boys in modern American culture, so these are issues he’s been addressing for awhile, making this something more than a…
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It Was Prophetic. . . How A 28-Year-Old Music Video Brings Tears To The Eyes. . .
So I’m sitting around the other day. . . waiting for my family to get ready to leave for a short trip in the car. I flip on the television in an effort to pass time and eliminate boredom. .…
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Newtown Returns to School. . . .
As time has passed, I’ve done some deep pondering and soul-searching regarding the best way to respond to high profile tragedies. . . particularly those like the horrifying December 14th massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.…
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Teen Trouble. . . TV Worth Watching? . . .
Mention the Lifetime TV network and reality TV shows to me and I’m going to snicker with some skepticism. When it comes to Lifetime, I think of the glut of “Lifetime Movies” remind me more of overly-dramatized soap operas than…
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We Are NOT Westboro Baptist. . . .
I was thinking. . . if the Westboro Baptist Church folks are really going to show up to protest the funerals of the Sandy Hook Elementary victims in Newtown, CT. . . could my youth worker friends in New England…
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God Bless This Marriage. . . .
Many of you have asked about Saturday’s wedding. Many of you prayed for Saturday’s wedding. Many of you have prayed for our family for years. Thanks to you all. What a day it was. I walked Caitlin down the aisle…
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Wedding Tomorrow! . . . Thinking About Marriage. . . Part 3. . .
Well, tomorrow is the big day here at the Mueller house as I walk a daughter down the aisle for the first time. Excitement is building. . . as is nervousness. Lord, help me to be anything but an emotional…
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Thinking About Marriage. . . Part 2. . . .
Only 4 days left until I walk my oldest daughter down the aisle. Am I getting nervous? You bet. It might be the longest most emotion-filled walk of my entire life! Does anyone have any good advice for me? As…
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DJs, Phone Calls, Humor, and a Deceased Nurse. . . .
The story coming out of London just gets stranger by the moment. You’ve most likely heard the story by now. Two Australian DJs make what we kids used to call a “phony phone call” to the London hospital where a…
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Thinking About Marriage. . . Part 1. . . .
A chant from my childhood that was enlisted to harass others offers a reflection of some once widely accepted and recently lost foundational truths. When budding young “love” would “bite” one of our peers – disrupting our belief that the…
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Kaepernick’s Tattoos And My 90% Cotton Shirts. . . .
So sportswriter David Whitley of The Sporting News has spoken on 49er’s quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s tattoos. . . and Whitley is highly critical. In fact, in his article on Kaepernick he calls the QB out for being inked up, likening him…
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Faith, Filth, and Two-And-A-Half Men. . . .
19-year-old Angus T. Jones plays Jake Harper in the CBS sitcom “Two And A Half Men.” This week he’s put the show on the map with what many are calling a “controversial rant” against the show. . . a rant…
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