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The Last Generation on Earth?
He suffers, like we all do, but a meaningful life is not a life without pain. Suffering is part of life.
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On Children’s Songs and Politics
As a father, I listen to lots of music that, to put it nicely, is not my personal preference. Children’s music can be wonderful and full of joy, but after […]
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Appreciation
Let’s talk about something really controversial: Getting kids to sleep. For those who haven’t climbed that mountain yet, there are generally two sides in this controversy. One is the “Attachment...
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Making Up Our Minds
A while back, I had a conversation with a young couple considering marriage who had differing perspectives on the role religion would play in the raising of future children. One […]
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If Only She Would Have…
Helicopter Parenting. Free-Range Parenting. Attachment Parenting. Natural Parenting. Feminist Parenting. I could list may more but the point in each is the same: each offers a way, a method for […]
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An Young Father
Oscar Wilde’s first and only novel narrates the chilling story of a man called Dorian Gray. [1] Dorian was handsome, splendidly handsome (not quite like Jeremy Kidwell or Dave Benson […]
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A stroll across the sky
Every now and then I spend an afternoon in the bookstore, savoring pages and dreaming adventurous stories about far-away characters. Recently I came across an unusual book by the French […]
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When to say Thank You
‘A little old lady lived all by herself With a table and chairs and a jug on the shelf. A wise old man heard her grumble and grouse, “There’s not […]
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Jesus According to Charles Dickens
Between 1846 and 1849 Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord, a simplified version of Jesus’ life for his children, who ranged in age from newborn to 11 years-old […]
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Hey Kids… Let’s Talk Science
As a second year university student, I came to my campus minister with some questions about science. Like others my age, I wanted to know about evolution and Genesis and […]
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“For thine is the story…”
My nearly three-year old daughter has a beautifully illustrated version of the Lord’s Prayer that we read almost every night. She piously folds her little hands and says the words […]
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“Why can’t people wait for Christmas?”
While shopping today, my three-year-old pointed to a Christmas tree and asked, “why can’t people wait for Christmas”? She didn’t ask it critically but out of curiosity, interrogating the expression […]
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A Great Escape
As a mother of three, with all the stresses and strains and baggage (gallons of it in my hands, and now even in the under-eye area) that that entails, I […]
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Tell Me A Story About Who I Am
Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? What is that makes “us” a “we?” Some combination of these questions is nearly always whirring around in the background of […]
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On Children’s Songs and Politics
As a father, I listen to lots of music that, to put it nicely, is not my personal preference. Children’s music can be wonderful and full of joy, but after […]
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Old Wisdom Meets New Trends for Faith and Families
The latest findings from the Pew Forum show that religious attendance and affiliation have continued to drop over the last three decades in the United States, a nation long considered […]
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Enough Really is Enough
I watch my children gather round the kitchen table for a snack: two small bags of Mini Cheddars poured into a bowl for them to share. I say ‘share,’ but […]
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“And it was good”
A few nights ago, I was reading a popular children’s Bible with my kids. We read through the creation story describing how God made the light, separated the waters, formed […]
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Yes. You are screwing up your kids.
It’s an unavoidable fact of parenting. Whether you are an attachment parent, co-sleeping parent, a free-range parent, a helicopter parent, a traditional parent, a non-ideological parent, you are doing...
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A few months ago, Macleans ran a piece that sent shivers of terror and guilt down the spines of parents of teenagers everywhere. It was called, “How the smartphone affected […]
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