by Laura Landgraf | Apr 3, 2020 | Opinion
I am an orphan in fact now, not by design, though I was that as well. My mother died Friday evening, March 20. Hazel Elaine Smith (Ewing), 90 years old, who said a year ago she hoped she’d fall asleep and never wake up and was ticked as the dickens when the sun rose...
by Christina Embree | Jan 27, 2020 | Opinion
I stirred up a pretty robust conversation when I addressed recently the importance of the faith community joining with parents and caregivers in the work of intentional discipleship. “How?” was the most common question, which usually included an explanation along...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 10, 2019 | Opinion
Does Mister Rogers still resonate with today’s children? That was the premise of an article published in The Washington Post in late November. The author reported, to her surprise, that while other television programs and movies nostalgic to her and her husband did...
by Laura Landgraf | Dec 3, 2019 | Opinion
It was a footnote that changed my life. I had an amazing therapist. In the course of our work together, he would occasionally suggest I read a particular book or watch a movie and tell him what value it had for me. What was the lesson to be learned? The “a-ha” moment?...
by Laura Landgraf | Nov 19, 2019 | Opinion
There is a saying, “The madness stops here.” Yes. The madness stops here. It means that my background will not be my children’s. It means, for my son and daughter, incest stopped at my generation. The tangled web we humans weave has emotional tentacles far more...
