Posts Tagged ‘Humor’

Inside the Box

January 20th, 2013 | Featured, Inside the Box | Read More

The Post No One Will Ever Read

Here it is, the eve of the end of the world, December 20, 2012. It’s mysterious to me why I sit, yet again in front of this computer screen, attempting to coalesce a few hundred words together into a coherent essay. Why bother on this night, for surely this will be the post no one will ever...

December 21st, 2012 | Featured | Read More

The Vasectomy: A Conversation with my Boys

The following is an excerpt from Christian Piatt’s new memoir, Pregmancy: a Dad, a Little Dude, and a Due Date. I’m thrilled to have Zoe in our lives. All of my concerns about worry overwhelming love and minutiae superseding the bigger picture of family thankfully were unwarranted. I should...

April 23rd, 2012 | Books, Essays, Featured | Read More

Why I’m Taking Teenagers To See Blue Like Jazz

As the Blue Like Jazz team has screened the film for audiences across the country and across the spectrum of faith, one of the things that keeps coming up is the “appropriateness” of the film for high school age teens. The film’s PG-13 rating and depiction of collegiate parties and...

April 12th, 2012 | Family | Read More

Karen Spears Zacharias, CNN, and the Internet Wringer

A month and a half ago, a friend sent me a .pdf of Go the F**k to Sleep. I thought it was fairly funny because it conveyed the universal frustrations of parents in a delightfully inappropriate manner. I didn’t think it was particularly innovative, since McSweeney’s Baby Be of Use series...

June 28th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Dodging Forks and Other Parenting Highlights

“I’m not going to be your friend any more!” My daughter, four, is rolling away from me, her platinum hair a tangled veil as she kicks her legs to fend off the pants I am trying to pull up her squirming legs. “I know you’re upset that you can’t play with your Legos anymore, but it’s time...

June 23rd, 2011 | Essays | Read More

LMAO Jesus Style

Do you ever feel like as Christians we take ourselves too seriously? I am a huge fan of this season’s Last Comic Standing. Granted some of the material is offensive or outright blasphemous at times, but there is something which grabs me about the comedic vision of religion. There is much to learn...

October 11th, 2010 | Featured, Humor | Read More

God and His Mama

I have this theory about God. Unlike the theories of evolution, mine lacks any scientific proof whatsoever. I tell you that because if you’re the type of person who needs hard facts or empirical evidence, or simply a text message, well, honey, I got none of that. What I do have is a gut feeling. Before...

December 23rd, 2009 | Essays, Featured | Read More