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Becoming Father
This is the first post in our week long celebration of Father’s Day. I was inspired by Mary C. Stelter’s post here at RI just before Mother’s Day, which she called “Becoming Mother,” to think about my...
View ArticleNot Perfect, Still the Best
After Paul’s post yesterday about the difficulties of adjusting to fatherhood, I started to wonder how a father can overcome all of those difficulties to become the stuff of legend. No man can be all...
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My Father, an Enigma
My father is an enigma amongst men. Growing up, I didn’t realize how different he was from other typical males in our society, or even from many in the church. It wasn’t until adulthood before I...
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Are Good Men Perfect?
This guest post was submitted anonymously for our Father’s Day series. Back in April I enjoyed reading Jen’s post entitled, Seeing Good Men. At the end of the essay, she encourages: Good and faithful...
View ArticleThe Burden of Fatherhood
On Sunday, we celebrate men who carry the burden of fatherhood. But today, let us mourn over the men who let that burden drop and over the countless empty, aching spaces they leave when they go. Let us...
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I Love You Daddy
Few words bring such warmth and love to a father than hearing your child say, “I Love you daddy.” When I come home from my work travels and hear those words from any of my five girls, I realize, on...
View ArticleWhere’s My Petunia?
Why do so many wards go all out (Chocolates, flowers, plants, getting men to take all the women’s classes/ callings etc) for mothers, but barely mention Father’s Day other than in a precursory fashion?...
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Vilification of Men
In 1878 the first Primary Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized. The idea came about in good measure by Aurelia Spencer Rogers (subsequently the first President)...
View ArticleThe Heart of Fatherhood: Laying Down One’s Life
She was 12 years old, and her death was totally unexpected. Thus began a post I wrote in tribute to my father almost six years ago. I want to share that tribute here, nearly unedited, on Father’s...
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Gender Roles in the Plan of Salvation
This is a theory, a try at understanding. It is my way of connecting existing truths with new truths within my own mind. I believe in faithful obedience first, through which I gain access to deeper...
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