A friend of mine recently lamented that when he sat his teenage son down to have “The Talk,” he had […]
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A friend of mine recently lamented that when he sat his teenage son down to have “The Talk,” he had […]
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This is my fantasy: I’m standing at the Main Street corner in my little New Jersey suburban downtown, waiting to […]
When I was 18, I attended a large gathering of evangelical Christians, just as I had every summer through high […]