This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

A German guy named “Freddy” came to America for the World Cup, and for about 2 weeks he was the happiest man on the internet. He followed his team across the country with 2 friends and a rental car. He tried ranch dressing. He walked into an American cathedral named...
A Self-Serving Sexual

A Self-Serving Sexual

**This article was originally published for The Long Middle on Substack** Guys, we finally did it! We’ve climbed the whole pyramid. Food, shelter, safety, belonging, esteem. Maslow drew the hierarchy and we spent a century clawing up it, and now a lot of us in America...
We Always Marry the Wrong Person

We Always Marry the Wrong Person

**This article was originally published for The Long Middle on Substack** We always marry the wrong person. God does too. The biggest difference? I didn’t know what I was getting into and God did. Stanley Hauerwas said the real work of marriage is learning to love and...
A Father-less Generation

A Father-less Generation

I heard (another) story this week of a young man who was brought up in the foster care system. Because of this experience, he had a vasectomy at 18, determined never to have children. Something went wrong, and recently he found out his girlfriend was pregnant. Their...
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