You’re Not a Lunatic? Thank Your Daddy.
Portland’s feral children have bonded since the 1980s in “street families,” complete with “street moms” and “street dads.” Some of the most grotesque crimes in the city’s history have …
Category: Family
We’re Going to Kill Ourselves to Death!
The world isn't going to overpopulate itself to extinction. In fact, just the opposite is going to occur, according to a new book.
Tuesday
As I mentioned yesterday, I was in charge of prom preparations on Saturday. I’m not much of a photographer, but I took my role seriously and did a pretty …
Thursday
Letters to Children: Being in Love When your mother and I first started falling in love, she was living in Ypsilanti and I was living down the road in …
Saturday
Gay Marriage Insightful piece at Vox Populi on gay marriage. I can’t say I quite agree with it, but the author makes the general point I’ve made over the …
Monday
Letters to Children: Marriage I’m not going to recount the history of marriage, or why it is properly viewed as a sacrament, or anything like that. I’m going to …
Wednesday
Which Stage is Hardest? I want to start this month of essays with encouraging words for young parents. When my children were little (pre-school), things were hectic. The kids …
Wednesday
Family Guy I’ve been reading some Nock. Albert Jay Nock, one of the premier American essayists of the early twentieth century and one of the founders of modern conservative/libertarian …
Monday
Sign the Covenant . . . Or Not . . . Your Call Kansas is considering a covenant marriage bill. I don’t know much about the Kansas bill, but …
The Return Eudemon
North to Alaska I’m not a well-traveled man. I’ve never been to any continent besides North America, and when I turned 42, I hadn’t even traveled to the western …
Tuesday Miscellany
A TDE reader sent this link to me last week. I meant to get to it sooner, but didn’t. Interesting stuff at Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse. …
The Post-Christian Age?
Have we really entered the Post-Christian Age . . . or do few Christians recognize Ash Wednesday that, for all practical purposes, it doesn’t exist anymore, except as a …