Children and Parenting

I’ve been paying more attention lately to our language around work and vocation. I’m realizing patterns that I think are embedded pretty deep within us and serve to rule our lifelong actions rendering us unable to truly live the way we were intended to live. If the church is to stand apart and model an

I’m tired of the onslaught of advertising myself, I can’t even imagine what we’ve done to our children at this point by exposing their fragile minds to the brilliance of the marketing system who are out to win them over. We have lost. I don’t know one family who has successfully guarded their children against the flow

This might come as a redundant post to where many people have already landed. I think though I’ve finally placed my finger on why children’s ministry at my church and the other churches I’ve worked with have never felt complete. They have always felt unthoughtful, typical and forced. It’s the same how I see a

After being in Florida for the past week, and watching as parents everywhere lavish their kids with every experience and material good, necessary and unnecessary, I can’t help but think that our culture has really missed something. While we were in South Africa, one of the main things that we noticed about their world was

Phil Nellis posted this image on Google Reader today.  Funny, Rachel and I spent the entire dinner talking about this exact issue.  Do we really want our kids to want to become like these princesses or have them as their role models?  We didn’t even get into their stories, we just focused on how shallow