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Sundays for the Young Son of a Theologically Conservative Pastor

My father was the pastor, and he was not above reprimanding his children from the pulpit if we didn’t sit very quietly.

Parenting Across the Digital Generational Divide

One of the most curious things about raising two boys seventeen years apart is the divide I feel in their digital generations.
August 19, 2025

My Father’s CV

Reading for the shape of a life can be medicinal, especially when we allow that life to diagnose and heal ourselves. And maybe then that understanding can encourage doctors of…
Mathew Boedy. English

Pancakes with My Father

My father cried the day his stroke began, as he lay in the emergency ward, watching himself lose his speech and his strength. He cried the day after the stroke…
December 11, 2019

Where Are All the Grownups?

Why is it taking so long for Americans to become “real” grown-ups?

It’s the Family, Stupid

Hillsdale,MI. David the King ordered the beautiful Bathsheba to come to him because he could.    He also could have her husband killed, and sent the letter that condemned Uriah the…
December 24, 2009