Pillar IV: Protecting

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Survive or Succeed? Years ago I was having a conversation with a fellow church goer about the evils that face our children—from peer pressures, to the perversion of human sexuality, to the pervasive media—when this gentleman responded, “We survived didn’t we?” Without hesitation, I immediately retorted, “I don’t want my children to have the life I have had, I don’t …

Pillar iV: Embrace Charitable Authority

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The Problem with Male Authority Over the last several FOSJ sessions we’ve been outlining the spirituality of the human father and its four pillars: 1) embrace silence, 2) embrace woman 3) embrace the child, and today will be discussing the fourth pillar—embracing charitable authority. Of the four pillars, this may very well be the most important as well as the …