Children, Marriage, and Church
It’s no secret that churches in America are losing 18 to 30 year olds. The teens our youth groups leave home for college and within a few years they are missing in action. Conventional wisdom has been ‘don’t worry about it; they’ll come back when they start having children’. At least I think that’s the [...]
Where People Find Fulfillment
The Pew Research Center has a new study out: A Generation Gap in Behaviors and Values. The telephone survey (conducted from February 16 through March 14, 2007 among a randomly selected, nationally-representative sample of 2,020 adults) shows that while a younger generation of Americans are comfortable with cohabitation and out-of-wedlock children, they still value marriage. [...]
Priorities?
From the Tulsa World: Lawyers for both sides of the lawsuit huddled in separate rooms at the Tulsa County Courthouse, trying to hammer out a compromise that would defuse the tense legal standoff. By late Friday afternoon, the case had already taken the time of two federal judges and most of the day for one [...]
OCD in Childhood…
…what it’s not. I am amazed at the parents who either over-react or under-react to their childs struggles in life. It seems like I am constantly trying to convince some parents their child really does have problems. Some behaviors just aren’t normal no matter what the culture or context. With other parents, I’m doing the [...]
