The Other Side
The hollowness that comes with mourning someone, even if they were fictitious, feels real, as the story makes them real. That’s great practice for living with the haunted reality of loss.
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An Excerpt from “Economy and Pleasure”
Wendell, isn’t it fun?
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Stop Being a Snob. Read that Silly Book With Your Kids.
I want to read the serious stories to them, but they bring the silly book about a family trying to get rid of an oversized moose from their yard.
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Fellow Father, You Are Not a Failure
We are responsible for our faithfulness, our teaching and modeling what it means to follow Jesus to our families. That’s it. Everything else ultimately belongs to the Lord.
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The Lie of Optimization
You have plentiful hours in front of you. Do not let our optimization-obsessed culture prevent you from resting in that.
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We Weren’t Always This Way
We bring all these years with us into the conversation, yet we sometimes forget that not everyone was alongside us for them.
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The Words We Need to Speak
There’s something that happens in written stories, the novel, the picture book, the poem, that forces us to come face to face with our feelings.
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The Stories We Hear
Rather than either retreating from or approving of untruths, Christians ought to remain faithful and joyful as we run our race.
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Think It Over
Any encouragement to slow down and take a minute to think is much needed in our day and age. Insert pre-teens or teenagers into the mix, and you can multiply that need by ten or a hundred.
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5 Ways to Develop Healthy Imagination In Your Kids
A student with a healthy imagination, who looks at the world around him with awe and wonder and joy will naturally become creative, thoughtful, and hard working.
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A Liturgy for When the House Feels Too Full of Children
You, also, were a child once.
A boy with skinned knees, a growling belly,
a need for snuggles and snacks.
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I Am the Captain of My Soul, and Other Lies We’ve Believed
While I sympathize with the sentiment to try to conquer whatever circumstances are currently befalling us, we are still at the mercy of the tides.
