My mom texted a picture to all seven of us kids at the end of August after Nathan, my youngest brother and twenty years my junior, left for his freshman year of college. “In the first week of empty nesting we found an empty nest!” she wrote.
This year, I packed what will most likely be my son’s last Easter basket. He’s headed off to college next year,
In March 2019, I first learned that I was going to be a father. In those initial moments, I felt
Our children, soon-to-be youth, have important ideas and understandings of the world, their place in it, and their relationship with the Creator to share with us. Are we as the church listening?
On New Year’s Day, two big stories made the news, one domestic and another abroad. The media quickly tossed around
For each Grow Christians post we share on co-parenting, we offer this disclaimer: We are aware that our experience does
In the past three weeks, I’ve seen three movies in the theater with my thirteen-year-old daughter. A personal record, for
My family spends a lot of time on the sidelines of youth and high school sporting events. So much time,
As a child, my family had one Advent calendar we used for years. It featured a nativity with twenty-four paper
On election night, my family of four positioned ourselves in front of the television. Bowls of chili, loaded with all