Let you, your yoke-fellow, your children, and your servants, be all on the Lord’s side; sweetly drawing together in one yoke, walking in all his commandments and ordinances, till every one of you “shall receive
“Father. This single word has the power to inspire feelings of pride, fear, longing, regret, anger, and hope in the most stoic of individuals. It is a title that cannot be understood outside of the
I’m a dad of two little girls and one little boy. And when my little girls play with dolls, I play too. Does that make me less of a man? Does that make me effeminate?
The gross negligence lawsuit against the surgeon and nurse practitioners who are responsible for my wife’s death is now at long last over. After years of legal contention and endless frustration, I won. But to
“Play is an important practice of faith…but one best shared generously, even justly, across generations.” Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore My son has recently learned how to make-believe. He pounds away at a pillow in the living
So many blogs, books and marketing strategies have been written in the past decade about the weight that social media holds in our lives. As a young adult, I’ve grown up with social media for
Every church has at least one. You know—the sweet and well-intentioned elderly lady who is always telling you about her grandson or neighbor’s daughter. She genuinely wants to see you settled down with a “sweet
Young children are naked and unashamed, quite often literally. They are fascinated with their bodies—who has what, why one child is a girl and another a boy. They have observations to share and questions to
On a recent Sunday, we celebrated the sacrament of baptism, received by the child of a new family who joined that same day. After asking questions of faith and commitment of the parents, I turned
How does the Bible imagine marriage and sexuality? What evidence is there that sex is only condoned by God in the context of marriage? In this article, a team of biblical scholars respond with clues from the biblical text and world.
Marriage in the United States is struggling, and there are plenty of statistics out there to prove it. But what would our society look like if marriages were flourishing? Beyond the two spouses who make a commitment, the community would be vastly different. What if marriages really did offer the world a picture of fidelity and grace? But there’s a cost to change. So where do we start? Kelly Grace, developer of Seedbed’s Marriage Incubator curriculum, offers some insight and inspiration.
