Jerry Falwell Jr., Becki Falwell, and Me. . .
“Everything is broken” sang Bob Dylan back in 1989. Has there ever been a song title that tells the honest-to-goodness truth in a more direct way than that? I don’t know. What I do know is that the older I get,…
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Cardi B, WAP, And Our Kids. . . Some Thoughts. . .
So the female rapper Cardi B has us all thinking. She’s got us all talking. And as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most-Influential-People of 2018 (labeled by Time in that list as a “pioneer”), her latest single release has landed…
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A Prayer For Kids At The Start Of The School Year. . .
School is starting. This year, some of our kids are heading to a building. Others are going to school online. Still others are being home-schooled out of necessity rather than choice. I love looking at all the first-day-of-school pictures that…
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My Kids, My Identity. . .
If it doesn’t happen, who is going to be more disappointed? You? Or your kids? That question haunted me in a personal way as I rode past a high school football stadium during the last week of July. Coaches and…
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My Marriage Prayer. . .
Last Sunday I experienced for the second and last time the joy of walking a daughter down the aisle. I did it eight years ago for my daughter Caitlin, and then this time for my daughter Bethany. Until you’ve done…
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Going Back To School
This is a guest post from Kim Seldomridge. Kim is a Board Member and Treasurer for the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding. He worked as a school adminstrator for over 35 years. You can download this blog post as a printable…
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How To Take A Social Media “Purposeful Pause”. . .
Two of social media’s most negative effects are 1) How it can become a time waster for both those who post and those who are consumed with reading posts, and 2) how social media is uniquely suited as a playground…
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A Prayer To Change The Spiritual Climate Of The World. . .
We live in a time marked by generational snobbery that has been shaped in large part by a marketing machine that encourages us to trash the old in favor of embracing only that which is new. Sadly, this commitment extends…
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2020: Summer Of Love?
Here we are, just a little over six months into 2020, and already we know that this will go down in our own histories as a year filled with unexpected challenges. The first half of the year has brought monumental…
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Love, Sex, and Marriage. . . The Conversation With Your Kids. . .
For me, my conscious first memories of engaging in the simplest of ways with the topic of love began in Kindergarten. Every year when I was in elementary school, I would spend the evening of February 13 punching out two-dozen…
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Massachusetts & Polyamory. . .
Like you, I saw the headline a few days ago: “A U.S. first? Massachusetts city votes to recognize polyamorous relationships in domestic partnership policy.” The headline took me back a few years to some things we had written and recorded…
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In-N-Out Church. . .
So many of us have come to love In-n-Out Burger. I wish there was one near us here in Pennsylvania! Do you know the story behind how the burger chain got its name? The first In-N-Out Burger was opened in…
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