William H. Smith
All Content by William H. Smith
Why Your Child’s Misbehavior Shouldn’t Be Your Next Social Media Post
Age-Old Topic Parents have been telling their friends and families about their kids’ misadventures since . . . well, probably as long as there have […]
Never Forget: You Need What Your Kids Need
Sometimes we need to remember for ourselves the things we tell our kids.
Parents: Expect Your Kids to Make Mistakes
Every day as a parent requires you to speak up because one of your kids has messed up.
“Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back” by Frank Schaeffer
Crazy for God is a sassy, angry, honest, revealing, vulnerable, unsettling, insightful, frustrating book. In other words, it sums up Frank Schaeffer. It is not, however, the tell-all, reject-all book about his parents and evangelicalism that I thought it might be. I do have serious misgivings. He has been accused of dishonoring his parents, especially […]
The Story and Glory of True Love
There is a book of the Bible from which ministers seldom preach. Though I have lived nearly sixty years, been a minister for thirty-five and married for almost forty, I am one of those who have avoided speaking on this book-the Song of Solomon. Then one day I chose to use it for a wedding […]
