Kids today are offered many invitations to be shallow. Everywhere they are bombarded with proclamations that reality is self-defined, appetites are sacred, and that self-control is self-defacement. If you examine the children’s books on the shelves of your local bookstore you find that girls are afflicted with books like Teenage-ness: the Teenage years, Glitter Edition […]

I had an email from a friend this morning who saw something in my life and felt called to point it out. It was about how Gina and I parent our kids. I am not always good at receiving this kind of feedback. It’s embarrassing. It makes me feel weird to think people are watching, […]

The Blizzard came and transformed the city. Before the snowploughs and the footprints and the salt and the dirt could arrive, I got up early to capture it. I stepped out of my apartment—and into Narnia. Complete with lampposts. Everywhere, everything was brimming with light. Beauty that catches in your throat. Sudden brightness—shining in the […]

O! it is excellent To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Paul Bunyan, Roald Dahl’s BFG, and the Jolly Green Giant are not without their charms, but all anti-types derive their power from types.  If the types become overrun with exceptions, the exceptions […]

“Are there real fairies in the world?” I looked up from the mushrooms I was chopping to study my five-year-old daughter’s face. The cock of her head and squint of her eyes matched the skepticism in her voice. Not long ago, a Christian man who my daughter loves told her that fairies don’t exist. She’s […]