So your child just got a learner’s permit. Do you just hand her the car keys and say, “Good luck?" Not likely. You will make sure she gets proper instruction and you’ll spend hours in the passenger’s seat, helping her navigate the streets and highways of your town. There will…  [more]

“Do you think that the unfolding horrors at Penn State make parents more or less willing to send their kids away to camp for a week?” The question came from a leader in the field of Christian youth camping. In case you were not aware of it, youth camping is…  [more]

I didn’t expect holding Shel Silverstein’s "Everything On It," which was (way) posthumously released in September, to be such an emotional experience. But when I smoothed out the book and began reading the first poem to my daughter, my throat caught. Perhaps as it was supposed to, since “Years From…  [more]

Pat Robertson recently argued on the "The 700 Club" that it would be morally justified to divorce a spouse who has Alzheimer’s in order to marry someone else. When questioned about this by his co-host, Robertson argued that a divorce would not break one’s vow to remain married “until death…  [more]

I don’t normally catch up on the world of physics before I start my day. And yet, the other morning this headline got my very first click: “Speed of light maybe not fastest after all.” Perhaps it was because I had just been talking to my youngest son about why…  [more]