It’s one thing when parents/teachers are innocently unaware of something dangerous they’re presenting to kids. It’s another when there’s almost an eagerness to expose tots and teens to darkness, horror,…
Stranger and Stranger Things
Tag: culture
Strengthen the Seekers
There seems a recent upsurge (as I write this, November 2025) in young adults looking for the Lord, attending church for the first time (or after a long absence). Hurray!…
Heaven: It Ain’t the Morgue
Back in the 1990s I worked as a Japanese interpreter in Bellefontaine, Ohio. It was a joy to help Japanese families with parent-teacher conferences, doctor visits (even though I was…
Gifts and Priorities
At the risk of sounding like a whiner who’s just venting… I’ve written before about our possible over-focus on pets (for example: “Critter Cringe”). Then in November 2024 I heard…
Board Games—Who Knew?
My grandkids (age 14, 17, 20 at this writing) have, from the time they were very young, played board games with Mom and Dad. And I mean super-complicated games—the kind…