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I have seen in the army a number of veterans marching in front, an ornament and an honor to the whole company. Your short-service men come and go, but these tried men stick to the colors and are the backbone of the regiment. If a tough bit of fighting has to be done, you must rely upon such as these.…

There is a father, and he thinks that to go to his work—such common work as his—cannot be especially pleasing in God’s sight. He means to serve God, and so he stops at home. He is upstairs in prayer when the factory bell is ringing and he ought to be there. He hears that there is a conference in the…

Think of your dear little one at home. He cannot yet read a letter in a book; he knows nothing of the things that his elder brother studies; but he knows his father. He may not know very much about his father; he could not certainly speak to others about his father’s business or his father’s wealth,…

Ashley Thomas and Toya Wimberly were friends from middle school, and would often practice styling each other’s hair. They looked and acted so much like sisters that they grew up feeling that way. Toya’s father, Kenneth would joke that Ashley was his daughter, but he was surprised to find out it was true.…

Joshua Rogers tells about the time he, his wife, and their two young daughters were listening to Disney songs. The next song was a sentimental love song "I See the Light" from “Tangled.” Joshua walked over to his wife, who was in the kitchen, took her in his arms and started dancing with her slowly.…

In February 2018, Chloe Kim became the youngest female snowboarder to win gold at the Winter Olympics. She was the first to do a back-to-back 1080s in competition. Her story is more than Olympic gold but also of her family’s immigrant story. Her father, Jog Jin Kim, left his career to become her driver…

Stephen Baskerville is a college professor at Patrick Henry College. In an interview in World Magazine he was asked, “Why do many Christians talk more about the effects of homosexuality than the effects of single-parent homes?” His answer is one we need to remember. “The most destructive trend in our…

Fathers are an important part in every child’s life. Now we discover there is another element we hadn’t considered before. When the dad is one of those who tells corny, pun-filled jokes he is helping “forge healthy, close relationships between fathers and their sons and daughters. –The Week, March 15,…

Jeni Stepien is a Pennsylvania schoolteacher who was recently married. The man who walked her down the aisle and gave her away had her dad’s heart. He received it as a heart donor recipient when Jeni’s father was murdered ten years ago. After Arthur Thomas received the heart in 2006, they kept in touch.…

On the T.V. show Psych, Shawn Spencer is a psychic detective. He consistently solves crimes, but his immaturity often gets the best of him, resulting in his father, Henry Spencer, stepping in to help him solve the cases. Sometimes, Dad uses the opportunity to teach his son a life lesson. In one episode,…

Before the beginning of the 2016 major league baseball season, Adam LaRoche abruptly retired. LaRoche had played 12 seasons with several different teams and was set to make $13 million this year alone. So why would a man walk away from $13 million? Adam started a tradition early on in his career. He…

An 81-year-old Michigan man recently discovered a son he didn’t know he had. In 1959 Tony Trapani’s ex-lover sent him a letter to inform him he had a son in Pennsylvania, but he never received the letter. His wife intercepted the letter and hid it from him for more than 50 years. When she died in 2014,…

Adam LaRoche, who has averaged over 20 home runs a year in his 12-year Major League Baseball career, is walking away from his $13 million contract with the Chicago White Sox because the club would no longer allow Drake, his teenage son to accompany him the clubhouse. While many were critical of his decision…

The CEO of a $2 trillion investment fund said a letter from his ten-year-old daughter was the main reason that he decided to leave his high power position. Mohamed El-Erian left his job after his daughter wrote to him about all 22 milestones in her life that he missed because of his work. He said the…

The movie “Courageous” begins with a young man at a gas station pulling the squeegee out of the water container so he can wash his windshield while he is filling up his tank. What he doesn’t know, is that a young stranger, is about to steal his truck. When he turns around, he sees the truck pulling away.…

Davion Only is 15 years-old. He has spent his whole life in foster care, one family after another taking care of him. In a speech at St Mark Missionary Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, Fla. he told the congregation, I need a family “to love me until I die. I’ll take anyone, old or young, dad or mom,…

Bubba Watson won the Master’s Golf tournament twice. The prestige of winning the coveted green jacket given to the tournament champion makes Watson one of the world’s premier golfers. How does Watson view himself? His self-description on Twitter reads simply, “Christian. Husband. Daddy. Pro-golfer.”…

Jeremiah Heaton, the owner of a mine safety company in Virginia knows how to give good gifts to his children. While they were sharing time at a tea party, his daughter Emily asked him if she could be a princess. He told her yes, and then sat out to make that dream come true. He discovered piece of land…

While remodeling a house that he had purchased, David Gonzales found something of unusual value. While ripping out insulation from the garage, Gonzales discovered a copy of Action Comics No. 1, from 1935. The comic was the first edition to feature the then, new superhero, Superman. The father-of-four…

In his book, Do Fathers Matter? What Science is Telling Us About the Parent We’ve Overlooked Paul Raeburn says that “the presence of a father apparently reduces the chances that a child will be born prematurely or die in infancy. Dads’ penchant for roughhousing may aid the development of children’s intelligence.…

“Researcher Douglas W. Allen may have added a new dimension to the same-sex marriage debate with at study published in The Review of The Economics of the Household. Allen looked at a 20 percent sample of Canadian census data from 2006, a much larger sample than past studies of homosexual households.…

An Associated Press-We TV poll surprised a lot of people when the results indicated that more than 8 out of 10 men said they have always wanted to be a father or think they would like to be a father one day. Men who are already fathers were more likely than women to say they saw positive effects of fatherhood…

“Daniel Patrick Moynihan, at the time a federal official, wrote a famous report in March 1965 on family breakdown among African-Americans. He argued presciently and powerfully that the rise of single-parent households would make poverty more intractable.” “The fundamental problem,” Moynihan wrote, is…

The Cable Television network Oxygen proposed a new reality show called All My Babies’ Mamas. The show was about a rap artist who has 11 children with 10 women. Thankfully, public disgust was such that they pulled the show. It is a sad commentary on the state of entertainment that they could even consider…

One day when he was 13, Michael Irvin, NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver, decided to ditch school. As punishment, his father brought him to work with him the next day. It was a 14-hour workday, 110-degree heat, with only 15-minute lunch break to eat sardines and crackers. By the end of the day, “Irvin’s…