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December 2016

December 14, 2016

A Grandpa’s Christmas Prayer for his Granddaughters

Dear Clover (age 7) and Mattie (age 2), From the moment you were born (even...

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...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Boys and Girls Learn Differently–A Podcast with Dr. Michael Gurian

Dr. Michael Gurian is the New York Times Best-Selling Author behind books like The Wonder of...

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...

March 2015

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...

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 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 05, 2014

Sunday Schooling Our Kids Out of Church

About 40 years ago a profound shift took place in many Christian congregations across the...

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...

April 2014

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...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

A Grandpa’s Christmas Prayer for his Granddaughter

Dear Clover (age 7) and Mattie (age 2), From the moment you were born (even...

January 14, 2014

The Self-Esteem Obesity Epidemic

My kids grew up in the era of the self-esteem movement: that era when, no...

December 2013

December 12, 2013

A Girl’s Santa Wish List

A Father: Who will protect me, guide me, encourage me, love me, and show me...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

What Does it Profit Parents to Over-Program their Children….and Lose the Souls of the Kids in the Process?

At the end of a seminar I led on boys a man in his 70’s...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

No Girls Allowed! Why Boys Need Boy Space

During a recent men’s retreat a couple of us men we’re talking about boys and...

September 12, 2013

The Tyranny of Sameness–Robbing Boys of their Boy-ness

For all of the great advances women, in particular, have experienced thanks to the Women’s...

September 03, 2013

The High Cost of Twerking

Confession: I’m a middle age white guy. I don’t know a Twerk from Tweak. I...