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May 2015

May 01, 2015

Why Church Matters to Your Kids–Part 3: Reason #2 is…

In my first two posts on this issue I have argued that the Church matters…and...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Why Church Matters to Your Kids–Part 2: Reason #1 is…

As I cited in my first post on this subject, church attendance among Christians has...

April 16, 2015

Why Church Matters to Your Kids, Part 1: Does the Church Matter?

Philip Yancey, in his book, What’s so Amazing About Grace, opens up with a gut-wrenching...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

The New Gender Gap?

The headline for the March, 16, 2015 edition of the Arizona Republic trumpeted these words: Closing...

March 10, 2015

A Dad’s Playbook for Forging Faith in his kids–Part 4: Dad–You Have a Particular Set of Skills

(Many great books have been written recently about how to be more intentional in forging...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

A Dad’s Playbook for Forging Faith in his Kids–Part 3: Gentlemen–This is Your Brain on Testosterone

(Many great books have been written recently about how to be more intentional in forging...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

A Dad’s Playbook for Forging Faith in His Kids–Part 2: From Outsourcing to Dadsourcing

(Many great books have been written recently about how to be more intentional in forging...

January 20, 2015

A Dad’s Playbook for Forging Faith in his Kids–Part 1

(Many great books have been written recently about how to be more intentional in forging faith in...

November 2014

November 06, 2014

Confessions of a (Former) Seeker Church Pastor

(Excerpt from Sunday Schooling Our Kids Out of Church! The True Story of How One...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

The New Utopia: A Genderless Society?

The Lincoln Public School system recently trained its teachers to create a gender-neutral, or gender-inclusive,...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

The Myth of Male Privilege?

A friend sent me a link to a blog post, written by a mom about...

September 24, 2014

Beer, the NFL, and Domestic Violence

OK...I'll dive in and take the heat: Does anyone else find it a bit disingenuous...

September 09, 2014

The Imperative for Brain-Washing our Kids

I’ve been a pastor for over 30 years. For the last 9 years a part...

August 2014

August 17, 2014

Are Children’s/Youth Ministries the New Leper Colonies?

(Excerpted from: Sunday Schooling Our Kids Out of Church! The True Story of How One...

August 05, 2014

Sunday Schooling Our Kids Out of Church

(Excerpted from Sunday Schooling Our Kids Out of Church: The True Story of How One Congregation...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

It Takes a Man to Raise a Boy Into a Man

In the twenty-first century, the overwhelming majority of boys are being mentored primarily by women:...

July 11, 2014

The Hole in a Man’s Soul–The Father Wound

If you dig deep enough into the soul of a man who for some reason...

July 01, 2014

Real Boys Don’t “Fall in Love” with Jesus

Imagine dropping your son off at football practice and as he’s walking toward the field...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

The Tyranny of Boy-Blindess: The Fog of Gender Wars

The Fog of War: The unavoidable aspect of war wherein the intelligence gathered is always...

June 19, 2014

The Decade of the Boy (Guest Post by Michael Gurian)

For the last several months a group of writers has been focusing on the issues...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

For the Sake of our Children: Redefining the Legacy of Success

I wrote this for the Huffington Post last year at the request of Arianna Huffington...

May 24, 2014

Boy is Beautiful (Guest Post by Mark Sherman)

For the last several months a group of writers has been focusing on the issues...

May 09, 2014

If We Want our Kids to Grow Up…Perhaps We Need to Grow Up!

I was at my granddaughter’s soccer game last week. (She’s going to be 5 this...

May 08, 2014

Hugs and Slugs–If Boys Could Speak (Guest Post by Janet Allison)

For the next several months a group of writers focused on the issues of boys...

May 08, 2014

The Key to Building a High Impact Men’s Ministry

If you’ve worked in men’s ministry, or if you know anything about men’s ministry in...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Tommy Heads to Preschool–And Why That May Not Be a Good Thing!

Excerpted from my book, Searching for Tom Sawyer: How Parents and Congregations Can Stop the...

April 24, 2014

Dad: Coach, Cheerleader, and Companion. (Guest Post by Dave Brown)

For the next several months a group of writers focused on the issues of boys...

April 15, 2014

Is it Time to Finally Say…These are Good Days to be a Girl?

For over a generation we have been fighting for our girls…creating a world where they...

April 10, 2014

A Man in the Making: The Heart of Masculinity (Guest Post by Rick Johnson)

For the next several months a group of writers focused on the issues of boys...

April 01, 2014

The 6 Secrets to Your Son’s Success in School (Guest Post by Dr. Ed Dixon)

For the next several months a group of writers focused on the issues of boys...

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