Mar 19, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
If we but had a fuller sense of what it is to be a man or a woman, we would find greater joy in it. If only we knew the gift of God, then, perhaps, we would respond in hope and joy. Men, for instance, would thrill to the drama already implied in the fact of their...
Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Institute of Family Studies, Wednesday Quotes
Sociologist Christopher Lasch once wrote, “Socialization makes the individual want to do what he has to do; the family is the agency to which society entrusts this complex and delicate task.” Complex and delicate indeed. But then again, it is no more complex than the...
Jun 15, 2022 | Institute of Family Studies, Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
There is perhaps no greater intimacy possible between men than when a son looks to a father from whom he has learned to be a father himself. This Father’s Day, in addition to remembering my own father, I am reflecting on the astounding gift, and challenge, of being a...
Dec 6, 2017 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“What’s in a name?” William Shakespeare I think I now have confidence that it is not just me. There is something about boys and their names. When I was little I would look for places to write my name. In fact even just the first letter, inscribed the...
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