While television tends to portray Dads as bumbling goofs, occasionally the movies get it right. In honor of Father’s Day, here’s a list of my top 10 personal favorites among movie Dads. 10. The Pursuit of Happyness. You have to admire a film that shows a dad willing to go to any and all lengths… Continue reading my top 10 favorite dads
Friend and teenage step-daughter. Going to see Iron Man 2. (loved it.) Shopping. Discussing People magazine. Renting movies. Fixing dinner. Talking. Turning up the TV. Talking louder. Writing projects. Loading/unloading the dishwasher. 8th grade science experiment with coke and menthos. Looking up old boyfriends on Facebook. Eating ice cream. Re-telling our favorite stories. Again. Not… Continue reading houseguests
There seem to be lots of blogs providing the single, Christian female perspective on all things church and culture (see my sidebar for a few). Now some single, Christian guys are writing from the male perspective. They’re thoughtful, and wonderfully transparent (Top 5 Lines Christian Guys Dread to Hear,) and rather romantic (Lost in the… Continue reading the singlextianguy blog
Since Valentine’s day is all about wine and roses and chocolates for romantically involved couples, it’s nice to know there’s something special for… the rest of us. Despair Inc. brings us Bittersweets® – The Valentine’s Candy for the Rest of Us. “For most, there is no crueler day of the calendar year than that of… Continue reading a bittersweet valentine’s
On Sunday I had the privilege of being part of an amazing experience, Lumen.131. With a tagline “Bringing questions to light,” the goal was to begin an open discussion about some topics that we as believers can often find difficult to discuss, and hopefully find ways to compassionately engage with them. Check out the link… Continue reading lumen learnings
Thanksgiving is here, and I thought it might be interesting to remember what some other people thought about thankfulness. Some people who sort of got the whole thing started. The very first Thanksgiving proclamation was written in 1676 by the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts. They declared “…a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to… Continue reading about giving thanks
Be warned, a new vampire movie is opening this weekend. New Moon is a movie based on the second book in the Twilight series. Christians can be uncomfortable with these themes, though to clarify, there are no demonic elements in the stories. But in my opinion, focusing on the evil of fairly benign vampires completely… Continue reading vampires aren’t the problem
It can be argued that single people have a lot more freedom than married people – freedom to focus on a career, travel, to use the remote, to spend or save discretionary income. There’s also freedom to date, which can be either a lot of fun or a royal pain in the you-know-what, depending on… Continue reading types of men
It really is an age-old question, one I suspect men ask each other to explain the mysteries of the opposite sex: Why do women go to the bathroom in groups? There are a lot of theories, from battling over the cutest guy, (oh please) to comparing notes about their dates, (can you say paranoid?) to… Continue reading we go together
In the ongoing discussion about male and female “roles” both at home and in the church, I recently received one of the simplest arguments in favor of equality that I’ve heard. It came in an e-newsletter I received this week, written by Christians for Biblical Equality President Mimi Haddad. Since I couldn’t find the article… Continue reading equality in Christ
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