My two youngest kids have decided they want to be able to teach the Bible to others. In their efforts to create a “Bible Club” they have begun to study. It is fun to watch them try to figure this out all on their own. They gather several Bible books along with their Bibles and …
Dad jokes. I have books of them. I follow social media accounts dedicated to them. I tell dad jokes. I text dad jokes. I laugh at my own dad jokes. Did you know that your kids need your dad jokes? Everyone knows that dad jokes aren’t that funny. You know it. Your kids know it. …
Baseball is a relatively simple game to play…if you know how to play baseball. If you do not know how to play baseball, it is a game filled with complicated, sometimes abstract instructions, skills, and coordination. To some degree, anyone can throw a ball. But, throwing a ball correctly is a different thing altogether. If …
I built a fire with my eight-year-old son this week. He helped me gather the firewood. We stacked it together. He lit the fat lighter and watched it slowly ignite. An hour later, as we prepared dinner, the fire died because we had not tended it. I helped him place another piece of fat lighter …
There are enough critiques of purity culture to go around. But, I want to offer one more: purity culture did not go far enough, and the deconstruction of purity culture does not go far enough either. In many contexts, purity culture only spoke of sex and sexual lusts. But, speaking only to sexual issues does …