If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need...
I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increas...
Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
If you always read books, you'll always be happy.
I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome im...
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, becau...
Study, and cleanse
Religion, Gardner continued, gives us eyes to see and ears to hear in ways that science simply cannot. With our scientific eyes we can distinguish between true and false. With our religious eyes we ca...
Anybody can dream an impossible dream. But only a few find a dream that's possible.
May your first word be adventure and last word love.
There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in...
...I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this trip. It was as if the act of touching...
No one aspires to be the person who handles this kind of situation well. And we don't always handle it well.
At Abraham's burial, his two most prominent sons, rivals since before they were born, estranged since childhood, scions of rival nations, come together for the first time since they were rent apart ne...
A recent wave of research shows that children who eat dinner with their families are less likely to drink, smoke, do drugs, get pregnant, commit suicide, and develop eating disorders. Additional resea...