I’ve decided sending a kid to college – in terms of how moms and dads handle it – is a lot like having a baby. For an expectant mom, the entire duration of pregnancy is all consuming with physical…
I vividly remember during my 10th grade year sitting down with a friend and listening to him bash people who drink in high school. He said it was stupid and pointless and not to mention illegal; “I don’t…
I sat on my knees in the swivel chair in front of our family desktop computer. Over and over I clicked ‘refresh’ until the screen flashed blank and loaded a list of names. For eleven years, I’d committed…
So much of my “training” for college had been focused on my outward behavior that I felt surprisingly unprepared to have real talks with people about my faith.
When I started my freshman year at Ole Miss, I was thrown headfirst into a strange world of frat parties, weekly football tailgates, and freedom. So. Much. Freedom. What do you mean I can eat pizza at 2:00am?…
As we make up their beds in a tiny freshman dorm we are saying “yes” to God, the perfect and supreme parent of our children.
If you can remember back to the day you signed up for Facebook, you were given the choice of letting the world know your relationship status. All the usual suspects were provided for you, ‘Married’, ‘Single’ and the…
God bless you abundantly, my sisters and brothers called into the ministry of shepherding teenagers. Your ministry is daunting and your rewards are intangible. You enter into a young person’s life at a precise and designated moment in…
As a Christian, what do you do when your friend group, pledge class, or professors are diametrically opposed to everything your Sunday school teachers and parents ever taught you? What do you do when your roommate tells you…
