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The Adventurous World of Matching Socks

It is late Tuesday morning at the Parmer household.  The older kids are off at school, while the younger ones are working on their lessons at home.  Part of many […]

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All Things New by Erin McCole Cupp

“Truth outlasts moments.  Truth showed me that when I stood up to that one moment of abuse, I was setting a boundary that I, as a unique and precious child […]

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The Pornography Plague

As we said goodbye to 2021, and all the challenges that came with this year, once again a celebrity emerged on the scene with strong opinions. But this time, it […]

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Parenting

Culture of Me; Cultivation of We

In 2016, one of the leading empathy researchers in the world, Dr. Michelle Borba, published a book entitled “Unselfie:  Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World.”  The book opened […]

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Dear Dads, We’re All in This Together

I must have been no more than 12 years old.  Dad was in the backyard, and he had been digging for some time in hopes of finding the blockage to […]

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Would Somebody Please Get Our Teens an Alarm Clock?

I am sitting in my office across from her.  Her mother is sitting to my right.  Seconds earlier, in a casual way, I had posed the question.  As I waited […]

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Parenting

The Extraordinary Gift of a Stay-At-Home Mother

It is 12:30 on a Tuesday afternoon.  Our 8-month-old, Kate, has just awoken early from her nap after being unintentionally aroused by her 8-year-old brother, Will, who was determined to […]

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Parenting

The Abuse Potential

She is just wailing.  35 minutes after she started crying, nothing seems to make a difference.  Not walking around.  Not rocking her.  Not patting her on the back or checking […]

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ParentingFaith

God as an Authoritative Parent, and Why Our World Needs Him in This Way

Recently, I published an article which posited that to more fully understand God the Father, we must also come to understand what it means to be a dad on Earth. […]

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All in the Name of Freedom

The earliest people in the Great Flood.  Egyptians in the Red Sea.  The residents of Sodom and Gomorrah.  The firstborn in Egypt.  Israelites in multiple plagues.  Amorites in a hailstorm.  […]

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