How you define success can guide how you live every day and the decisions you make. So...
Some of us have happy memories of good fathers who taught us lessons about work. Others may have had to learn those...
Jesus honored his mother. Let us never forget that, even as the “mommy wars” drag women into debates over various definitions of...
In this video, Janet Wilde shares about how her faith informs her work as a homemaker. This video was shown in corporate...
Mark Roberts poses a question about family and work.
On Father’s Day, some of us lovingly rack our brains to come up with a creative present for Dad. Others, who have no dads or whose dads have not done very well at...
Blogger Lisa-Jo Baker writes, “They tell you that motherhood is a high and noble calling. But they don't tell you you'll clean...
Good old Dad. He’ll be happy this Sunday for Father’s Day even if you buy him another tie and a pair of...
Mother’s Day: that Sunday once a year when we honor moms with flowers and chocolates and maybe even chip in with the...
It was Harry Sparks who first told me the love between a father and mother was like a misshaped tree, and therefore different and better than all other love. Boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and...
Last week Rowan went for his pre-kindergarten check-up at the pediatrician. After he undressed and snapped himself into the soft, tiger-paw-print gown and been weighed and measured, the nurse...
In the fellowship of parenting, we often sit in the family room, literal or virtual, laughing and swapping stories. We discuss bedtime routines and college savings plans. We share laundry advice...
Simplicity is not a new concept. Henry David Thoreau dreamed of keeping his accounts on his thumbnail. For centuries people have known that simple solutions are often the best solutions. What about...
Parenting is a balancing act, is it not? And it's a hard balancing act. It's not like walking a wire where you have to keep from falling to the right or to the...
Two Sundays ago, I took Communion with my almost-six-year-old son. It was his first experience with the bread and the cup. And it’s something I’ll never forget. ...
About 10 years ago, I had the most amazing job. I was the Director of Adult Ministries at a large suburban church...
The most recent of my daughter’s many career incarnations is an astronaut, courtesy of a thirty-second newscast of the most recent space shuttle launch that somehow made it onto our DVR. I would...
Lying across the “big bed," an open window invites a breeze to tickle my spine. Stretching out like this feels good for...
I’ve never been a math guy. Numbers scare me in the same way zombies do; both seem so foreign and lack even...
Blundering, bungling, fumbling... ...
