For brain chemistry dysfunction leading to mental instability, often what people need are medication or professional therapy—not a pastor with an MDiv degree.
For the Deconstructing Parent
I hear parents say, “I just don’t know what to teach my children with all of my own questioning,”
Child Abuse in the Near-Sacrifice of Isaac
Photo credit: rzrxtion (pronounced resurrection) on Visualhunt / CC BY “The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken,” says psychoanalyst Lloyd DeMause, who has uncovered extensive research that reveal pre-20th century, every single parent child relationship would be prosecuted for abuse and neglect. Infanticide, abandonment, child battery, violent exploitation were socially and …
The Big O
Words and stories that are true ought to transcend age.
Should I Raise my Kids in Church?
Our goal should simply be to provide a safe environment for our children to live out their inherent spirituality.
Parents, It’s Okay if you’re Still a Recovering Evangelical
we carry wounds from a childhood of toxic religiosity that are easily triggered as we relive some of our childhood through our own kids.
The Danger of Certainty in Adolescence
Be wild and weird and wonder if you know what the heck you’re doing, because it’s okay if you don’t.
Rising from A Fundamentalist Childhood
What I don’t want is for the children to have to exile parts of themselves and having to put themselves back together like I had to, I want them to grow as whole selves, from childhood and beyond.
Race for Lost Time
That total depravity thing really threw me off my game in my youth. The T in TULIP cramped my style big time. I spent a lot of energy as a young person and a young Christian denying myself as part and parcel of following Jesus. Which complicated my personal and spiritual development when the teenage years should have been a …