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July 2016

July 14, 2016

The Wonder of Girls: A Podcast with Dr. Michael Gurian

Dr. Michael Gurian has spent the last 30 years of his life writing and speaking about...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

Why Don’t Boys Make the List of Presidential Campaign Issues?

Immigration…equal pay for equal work…gun control…Wall Street…taxes…the Military…gender equality…terrorism…the national debt…the Middle Class…the top 1...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

Why Dropping Sunday School Could Save the Soul of Your Church

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

September 2015

September 29, 2015

The Church’s Male Dilemma

For the last several years, authors like my friend, David Murrow, have passionately argued for...

August 2015

August 19, 2015

The Steroid Church

Why do men hate going to church? My friend, David Murrow has written a best-selling...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Could Dad be the Key to Healing Our Country?

Near the end of his book, Do Fathers Matter? What Science is Telling Us About...

June 05, 2015

Boys and Girls Emote Differently–Can’t We Be OK With That?

Man-up! Take it like a man! Shake it off! Most boys hear those words and...

May 2015

May 08, 2015

Why Church Matters to Your Kids—Part 4: Reason #3 is…

If Jesus matters to us, then what matters to Jesus will matter to us. If...

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...

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