Posted in Family Life on July 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Our daughter is fast approaching two. She’s a full-fledged walking, talking child now, definitely not an infant anymore. As her second birthday approaches this fall, I offer these random thoughts on parenting a toddler.
There’s No Preparing for This
Planning is for before pregnancy. Spend that time getting ready for the kid. Spend your whole life, if [...]
Posted in Family Life, Men and Women and Sex on June 16, 2008 | 82 Comments »
I won’t be updating The Available Light with new material today. I am on vacation. Instead, I am reposting this post from spring 2007. The best part of this post is in the comment thread. Don’t miss it.
I am beginning a new project dealing with the personal and social consequences of divorce.
The first resource I’ve [...]
Posted in Family Life, Men and Women and Sex on June 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
To be a man, especially a family man, is to bear responsibility for others. No matter how much a man loves those whom he guides and protects and provides for, the burden of those responsibilities can, from time to time, grow so great it’s easy to lose heart, to get discouraged. The challenge to persevere [...]
Posted in Family Life, Religion on May 28, 2008 | 14 Comments »
So much depends upon the father. The health of the whole family is often determined by the father’s attitude and by his willingness to take action on behalf of his wife and children.
Because the religious life of a family forms the foundation for all other aspects of its existence, a father’s leadership in this area [...]
Posted in Family Life, Living on May 19, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Everywhere in America, people feel the pain of living in a culture moving away from marriage as the primary structure of sexual relationships and the foundation of the family. Permissive sexual attitudes and the behavior that follows them along with easy divorce clog our hearts with resentments.
Many people whose families of origin fell apart seek [...]
Posted in Family Life on May 7, 2008 | 13 Comments »
It’s comforting for parents to imagine we don’t need to scrutinize every bit of media that goes into our children’s heads. We like the idea of media produced for people their age that is safe and wholesome. Unfortunately, many parents let their guard down too frequently and fail to look at the philosophical implications [...]
Posted in Family Life on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in Family Life, Men and Women and Sex on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I noticed this post of Rod’s the other day and couldn’t help but agree. Rod writes about his experience with his 17-month-old daughter, Nora.
Rod wrote:
I was sitting at the table talking to Julie when Nora… toddles over with a new shirt Julie bought her today.
She holds it out, and looks up at me [...]
Posted in Family Life, Men and Women and Sex, Religion on November 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
The connection between the church’s stance on divorce and her social mission is not often made plain. The reality is that when one spouse abandons another in the absence of just cause, the departing spouse is exploiting the weak. He is taking advantage of the other spouse’s powerlessness to force him to stay. The abandoned [...]
Posted in Family Life, Men and Women and Sex, Religion on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Note: This is the third post in a series on divorce in the church. My first two generated a fair number of comments and some questions. Instead of pushing ahead with the next part of the series, I thought I’d pause to take a stab at answering a couple of the queries presented to me [...]
