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Why Dads Make a Difference
Vol. 14, No. 3 • May/Jun 2005
Looking up at me with one of those puzzled expressions, my three-year-old son James, flanked by his siblings (seventeen-month-old triplets), queried, “Daddy, why are you still working? You said you’d play outside with me.” My reply was sharp and impatient: “I’m working on something important right now.” As soon as the words left my mouth […]
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Good News for Bad Dads
Looking up at me with one of those puzzled expressions, my three-year-old son James, flanked by his siblings (seventeen-month-old triplets), queried, “Daddy, why are you still working? You said you’d play outside with me.” My reply was sharp and impatient: “I’m working on something important right now.” As soon as the words left my mouth […]
The Little Parish
“Therefore it is the duty of every father of a family to question and examine his children and servants at least once a week and to ascertain what they know of it, or are learning and, if they do not know it, to keep them faithfully at it.” These were the words of Martin Luther […]
The Repatriation of Father
To solve the problem of fatherlessness in our churches, we must begin by understanding that dads are not just little boys who have run away to play hide and seek. It is far more dire than that for both the absent fathers and the church which has chased them off. In the broader culture, many […]
The Father Meets Our Real Need
Every good father is a clue as to what God is like to his child and especially to sons. The great Scottish storyteller George MacDonald certainly understood this. To My Father Take of the first fruits Father of thy care, Wrapped in the fresh leaves of my gratitude. Late waked for early gifts ill understood, […]
When Alex Doesn’t Believe
A friend asked about her sixth-grade son’s sudden announcement that he no longer believed in God. Our time was simply too short for a substantial answer, so I wrote a letter. Dear Doc and Leanne, I appreciated the opportunity to talk about Alex, and I am glad that our friendship is such that we can […]
Restoring Fatherhood
Rarely has the nation’s debate shifted with such breathtaking speed. Polls continue to show a significant shift in concern from fiscal to social deficits. In spite of its economic greatness, America is increasingly embarrassed in the eyes of the world for its social conditions. It is humbling for the world’s richest industrial nation to have […]
