There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
The Starrs came up with a modified three questions for their family meeting. 1. What things went well in our family this week? 2. What things could we improve in our family? 3. What things will you co...
May your first word be adventure and last word love.
After a few more weeks of equally uninspired gatherings, I called David. You’re focusing on the wrong thing, he said. The purpose of the meeting is not to talk about each of you as individuals. It’s t...
And you will have many opportunities to take in human civilization at its highest levels of achievement. ..approach this experience as a small child might approach a mud puddle. You can lean over and...
Joseph predicted the Exodus, which meant that he knew his descendants would be enslaved by the pharaoh and then freed by God, was the most powerful expression of optimism—and faith—I had ever encounte...
Their (Council of Dads) wisdom reads like a psalmbook of living: Approach the cowPack your flip-flopsDon't see the wallTend your tadpolesLive the questionsHarvest miraclesAlways learn to juggle on the...
The future Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1822. In 1844 she married a free man, John Tubman. Five years later, fearing that she was about to be sold, Tubman tapped...
One of the things that happens in the world is that people try to conflict. Whereas in the home, you can't. You'll end up getting divorced or becoming estranged from your kids. Keep in mind, the hard...
In Superman number one, published in 1939, Clark and Lois Lane travel to a thinly disguised Nazi Germany, where Lois ends up in front of a firing squad, until Superman rescues her. In Superman number...
The King James Bible, which most Pennsylvanians would have been using, describes the central moment as an act of economic liberation: Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout...
In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question What is this organization’s essential mission or purpose and what is its...
Freedom is the right to be free, and then the obligation to accept responsibility. If you don’t understand that, then ugly stuff happens. And when you do understand that, you’re prepared to meet the o...
For centuries, European explorers had set out for new lands without using expressions like pharaoh and promised land, New Covenant and New Israel, Exodus and Moses. By choosing these evocative lyrics,...
As early as April 1940, Hitler’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, denounced Superman as a Jew. The weekly SS newspaper lambasted Jerry Siegel as an intellectually and physically circumcised chap w...
A meta-analysis of sixty-six studies completed in 1992 found that mothers who have more support from grandmothers have less stress and more well-adjusted children. The more involved the grandmothers a...
The Exodus scenes were filmed in the sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, and DeMille transported hundreds of Orthodox Jews from New York, because he believed that in appearance and in their deep feel...
So if the Civil War was really a war over the meaning of the Bible, I asked, which side won? Neither. The events of the war showed that war is not skywriting from God about the virtue of one side or t...
American culture really has two souls. And it’s not a question of whether the culture becomes secularized. The culture never becomes one thing or the other. The culture is always two. The culture is a...