Rejoice in the Lamb – and other pets
I recently had the privilege of meeting someone who gave a presentation in which he proposed that vegetarianism should be adopted by Christians as part of their missional agenda to […]
Tag Archives: family
Unfinished business
Getting the job done feels good. I feel a deep sense of satisfaction at wrapping up a project, completing a task or finishing a role, in spite of the fact […]
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 something […]
A Breath of Beauty
An iconic movement blossomed in Parisian circles in the late 1860s. Artists like Claude Monet, Jean-Pierre Renoir and Edward Degas started to forge a new way of painting, opening a […]
The Fear of Belonging
Why are we afraid of belonging? Because we lose control? Independence? Pride? I thought about these questions flying back home from a hug-filled conference in Lisbon, when islands of saneness […]
Son of a xxxxx
I have before me a series of political news magazines collected over recent weeks. The obituaries page is not one I usually turn to first, but having read two obituaries […]
Thank You. For Now
The mind of a teenage boy is, I am discovering, a fearful and wonderful thing. Beautiful, strange, unpredictable, irrational, surprisingly generous, unspeakably kind, maddening… All within a few hours, sometimes. […]
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 […]
Preparing for Christmas
People are preparing for the Christmas season around the globe: fridges are being stocked, presents bought, lights strung up, and rooms prepared to receive family and friends. How do you […]
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 […]
Wondering Fair 