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 popular [...]
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 [...]
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 state court [...]
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 [...]
