I go through cycles of elation and depression. It's really quite annoying, actually, especially for my dear wife who has to navigate the waters of my extremes. There are moments when I know that I know that I know that I am in the right place at the ri ...
"It seems we cannot be ourselves, we cannot be our own man, or our own father, until we have been someone else's little boy." ~Richard Rohr In the heart of every man is a hunger for his father. It's one of those inevitable things. It happens in both b ...
I am raising pyromaniacs. There is no doubt that all three of my children love to blow things up. It seems that there is something deeply seated in the hearts of my children - something that says, "The louder and brighter and higher and bigger the expl ...
Let's be honest. We want to matter. I want to matter. You want to matter. We all strive to matter in someone's eyes, to have weight. We do crazy things to gain notoriety in the world...or at least in one other person's eyes. I see it in myself. I see it i ...
In several conversations recently with men, women, pastors and ministry leaders, the topic of "male rites of passage" has surfaced with great interest. We have gotten to the topic through a variety of avenues, though they have all had one underlying theme ...
In about two weeks, I will be returning for the first time in 3 1/2 years to my second home...Turkey. I will be serving as a counselor to Christian workers at a conference on the southern coast of the country. This morning I sent in my registration form t ...
