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Jon to jump from helicopter … maybe

We’re talking about telling the truth, Jon and me, and the truth is something that to a seven-year-old boy can ...
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On Helen Keller, being blind and doing something

You never know what to say when you’re up there. Your name is called. There’s a presenter, a certain presenter ...
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Living in today with yesterday’s decisions

He was a black man and he could recite entire chapters of the Scripture, and this is what he did ...
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Children and hope at one crossroads or another

She’s a scholar of the Old Testament and her reading glasses sit on her nose, and then she takes them ...
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The Lord is my Shepherd. So why do I want a Porsche?

Liz is now tall enough to legally sit in the front seat when Daddy drives. Oh no. Today, it's the front seat; tomorrow ...
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A Father’s Day letter to my daughter – Faraway home is where the heart is

Ten  years ago, in June 2003, my daughter Elizabeth Katherine was born. My life as a father began. And life changed, ...
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A prayer for Hannah. And this return visit to her orphanage

It's hard to know exactly how many orphans Uganda may have. Some estimates are as high as two million. What ...
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On dragons, Bilbo Baggins, and My Bride’s honorary doctorate

The thing about dragons is that you have to believe they exist before you can go and slay them. And ...
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Henry Morgentaler: dark hero lost at sea

To be a hero can be a strange thing, something we were reminded of in recent days with the death ...
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The problem with religious people

She was in Seat 24A and she looked like she had lived, but still too young to be a grandmother, ...
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Dellen Millard: a young man of ambition

Ambition, like contentment, is one of those strange words to talk about with the children because it means everything and nothing at ...
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Mayor Ford says media way off on Coke allegations, he prefers water

As the allegations against Ourtown Mayor Freddy Ford continue to dominate headlines, The Daily Dad caught up with the mayor ...
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Science and God and our Dodge minivan

He was a name – an astronaut – a man of numbers more than anything, but he still knew the ...
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Tim Bosma’s funeral II – What do we tell the children?

It was just my daughter Liz and me in the living room, a quiet moment in the evening when I ...
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Tim Bosma’s funeral: a bittersweet day

The children had dental appointments and I was running late and so found myself in the back without a program ...
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