A Father Who Won't Affirm

In We Are Still Married, Garrison Keillor writes:

The town ball club was the Lake Wobegon Schroeders, so named because the starting nine were brothers, ...

Prisoners of Ourselves

It is not that someone else is preventing you from living happily; you yourself do not know what you want. Rather than admit this, you prefer that someone ...

Easy Criticism

The business of finding fault is very easy, and that of doing better very difficult.

Of Specks and Beams

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect but we will not amend our own fault.

Away with Gossip

I once formed a mutual encouragement fellowship at a time of stress in one of my pastorates. The members subscribed to a simple formula applied before ...

Table-Talk Forbidden

Augustine encouraged conversation at meals--but with a strictly enforced rule that the character of an absent person should never be negatively discussed. ...

Slander a Sign of Youthful Arrogance

It is a sign of youthful arrogance to try to build up a reputation by assailing prominent figures.

Money Not at Fault

The fault does not lie in the money, but in them that use it.

Overlooking Faults in Marriage

It is impossible to keep peace between man and woman in family life if they do not condone and overlook each other's faults but watch everything to ...

All Your Fault

"You were right. Talking through the problem brought us to an agreement--that it's all YOUR fault."