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Submit One to Another: Why I Submit to My Wife 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
My wife Julie and I laugh at many of the same jokes. We enjoy similar books, movies, and television shows. We both enjoy gardening and swimming. For that matter, we dislike many of the same books, m...
Why We Need to Take Our Shame to God 26 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
There are certain moments from my life that exist on perpetual instant replay. It only takes a second to experience them anew. My teeth clench and my shoulders hunch at the thought of one. I was 15, m...
First Draft Father: Turning Away from the Computer Screen 22 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Ethan is now at the age where we can happily drop him into the arms of another adult and run for it without too much guilt. While the first steps away can be difficult, we start to realize that we don...
Can Christians Be Unified If We Don’t Want the Same Thing? 19 Aug 2013 | 10:35 am
I used to find Christianity exhausting. I even found some of my Christian friends exhausting. Worse than that, I was probably the most exhausting person of them all. With a Bible degree and a Master o...
First Draft Father: We Are Now the Loud Family 15 Aug 2013 | 10:11 am
When I’m sitting in front of a slice of cheesecake from Katzinger’s Deli, I don’t generally talk to other people. Who has time for that when there is cheesecake on the line? Nevertheless, I almost sai...
Let’s Have a Laugh about the Greatest Threats to Our Faith! 12 Aug 2013 | 09:52 am
I don’t know why I thought this was a good idea. That thought crossed my mind several times while working on my latest book project. It all made sense at the time: talk about the most challenging and ...
Can We Find the Magic of Summers Long Past? 8 Aug 2013 | 10:10 am
My childhood had its tumultuous moments. I made several visits to family court in downtown Philadelphia during my parents’ custody battles. I was a regular to child psychologists through my teen yea...
Hope for Those Who Feel Left Out of Church 7 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
My seminary professor meant well. However, when he invited me to join him and a group of outreach-minded middle aged men for a series of meetings, he didn’t realize he was about to give me an advanced...
Millennials Need to Know Church MUST be Boring and Irrelevant 5 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Way to go Millennials. You’ve destroyed Christianity. That’s right: destroyed. You could have been content to sit in our churches keeping quiet and playing along, but now you’ve ruined Christianity b...
Don’t Talk to the Introvert 5 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
I’m writing over at A Deeper Family today about the ways we recharge on vacations and the way I almost ruined a vacation: At Prince Edward Island I grew obsessed with finding perfect beaches rather t...
