Last week, I wrote about Christian education being a completely other thing than its public counterpart. That’s because Christian education is intended to train up completely different people. As …
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A Completely Other Thing
On Tuesday, I sat on a panel discussion of educators and policymakers at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. The purpose of the panel was to discuss a book all the panelists contributed to …
Remembrance
There were those seminal moments in American history where everyone alive remembers exactly where they were. My grandparents used to tell me about being in church on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, …
Standing Firm in Love and Unity
As I said last week, I’ve been reading Dominion, historian Tom Holland’s account of the expansive 2,000-year history of Christianity. What I find most remarkable are the stories of amazing people who, …
Standing Firm in Truth and Hope
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a larger number of angry yellers and drama queens among parents in our culture than in the past? Why is that? I don’t know if you read Jim Denison’s The …
Reset
I’m not gonna lie: this empty nesting thing is fantastic. Before you judge me as callous, remember, the purpose of all this, all you’re doing with these kiddos, is to raise and release. I know it’s …
2021 Commencement
On May 22, we held the commencement exercises for the Grace Community School Class of 2021. With 91 graduates, it is our second-largest graduating class in our school’s history. The class was also …
Broken and Grateful
As I’ve reflected on the school year and its many blessings, God has brought me back time and time again to this Christian idea of brokenness before the Lord. Ann Voskamp notes that the key to life is …
Stuff Your Mom Said
My mother is a southern belle, a steel magnolia, and a force of nature. She was born in Tyler, in the house I raised my girls. Her father died when she was seven. She was raised by an …
Best Friends
This past weekend, I did something really fun. I attended a wedding of one of my childhood friends. Not a kid with whom I went to high school, or played football together, but a neighborhood kid. You …
On Providence
One of the crazy things about life in Christ in a fallen world is that we don’t always live like we believe. Take deism. We often act as functional deists, thinking of God as a kind of cosmic …
Family Business
I once heard a man say that he had been married to several different women, and they were all the same person. I know what he means. When I first married Ashley, she made it clear she had no real …