By Adam Dooley Christian Action League June 15, 2024 I love being a dad. Each day pattering little feet greet me at the door when the alarm chime sounds at home. One daughter grabs my leg and another throws her arms around my neck. My sons are too grown up and cool to act excited […]
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Winking at Disobedience, Winding Toward Destruction
By Annie Holmquist Intellectual Takeout April 28, 2022 A little girl sporting a blue tutu came into view the other day as I walked by a school parking lot. But it wasn’t the tutu that caught my attention—it was her mother’s various commands and entreaties that she was happily ignoring. “It’s time to go, honey!” […]
The Fear of Father and The Fear of God
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League June 20, 2021 William Ellery Channing once wrote, “Erase all thought and fear of God from a community, and selfishness and sensuality would trample in scorn on the restraints of human laws. Virtue, duty, and principle would be mocked as unmeaning sounds.” My father was good to me. […]