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“Be holy as your heavenly Father is holy.” These words of Jesus, taught in the context of the Sermon on the Mount, is a universal command! This must be carried out according to one’s specific vocation of life.
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“We know the statistics,” said Barack Obama in a speech for Father’s Day 2008, “that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely…

Men Don’t Mother

by Jenet Erickson on October 31, 2012 · 1 comment

There’s been a strange turn of opinions about fatherhood–at least in recent public debates. Decades of research have now documented the tremendous challenges children face when they grow up without their fathers. But you would never know it by looking…

We like hiking.  And by “we”, I don’t mean “Ken and I like hiking, and so we force the children to endure it with us.”
I actually mean “we” as in “all of us”.  Oh sure, we’re not all at…

When Going to Work is Better Than Staying Home

by Devin Rose February 7, 2012

Some men find work more satisfying that home life.
As a husband and father of a very busy family, I can understand: at work I get to exercise my mind solving complex problems on a daily basis and I get…

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