Author: Shalem John

Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship has denied reports that it hosted a prayer meeting for its embattled pastor, Tony Evans, on Thursday. This comes days after he temporarily stepped away from pastoral duties for committing an undisclosed sin years ago. #OakCliffBibleFellowship #TonyEvans #Prayer #Sin ​Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship has denied reports that it hosted a prayer meeting for its embattled pastor, Tony Evans, on Thursday. This comes days after he temporarily stepped away from pastoral duties for committing an undisclosed sin years ago. #OakCliffBibleFellowship #TonyEvans #Prayer #Sin  

Reports of the death of fatherhood have been greatly exaggerated. There are many good dads, like mine, quietly blessing their children. Problems with fathers are nothing new. They go back to the beginning. Genesis alone is a vast catalog of fathers’ sins, whether those of Adam, Noah, and Lot, or the patriarchs themselves. What about good fathers, though? Here is C. S. Lewis, writing in the 1940s: We have learned from Freud and others about those distortions in character and errors in thought which result from a man’s early conflicts with his father. Far the most important thing we can…

Time off at the very beginning helps fathers prepare to bring up their children in the “discipline and instruction of the Lord.” When our first daughter was born, in the fall of 2021, she couldn’t nurse properly. For my wife, feeding her was an every-few-hours exercise in pure pain. Lactation consultants were consulted, to little avail; a minor tongue-tie operation, newly trendy in such cases, didn’t help either. We thought about switching to formula, but my wife was dead set on seeing nursing through. So we triple-fed: She would nurse the baby through gritted teeth for as long as she…