For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to …
Love Lavishly
Love is perhaps the most overused word in the English language, the most powerful force in the universe, our most desperate need, and yet the quality the world needs most right now. Our theme this …
Against the Waves
To say it has been a long summer has been an understatement. I mean, aside from the fact that it actually was about five or six months, including quarantine, it was metaphorically long, as well. …
Revealing Who We Are
As we near the end of this remarkable school year, hopefully also nearing the end of this COVID-enforced quarantine, we all have the opportunity (if we’ll take it) to reflect on what has happened to …
God of the Ups and Downs
I know as an older school dad, I have a few years on many of you. There are some things that are not so great about that; first of all, I’m not nearly as cool or as cute as most of you (although …
Graduate-Level Parenting
As Ashley and I are nearing the end of “in-house” parenting and the “empty nest” phase of life, I’ve been reflecting a lot on our parenting over the years: what we did well and wrong, what were my …