fatherhood

Cameron Morse looks for God in the dead of winter with his toddler son.

Jonathan Hiskes writes that we cannot control the tender moments of a child’s first year—we can only bear witness.

Sunday We are on the boat, our family, barreling north into a sea of granite peaks. Before us spreads the gleaming surface of Lake Chelan, a fifty-one-mile gash cutting deep into the Cascade Mountains. To our right, the eastern foothills flow by, sun-browned in the August heat. They lie hulking like knuckles on a fist. […]

Jason Byassee examines fatherhood, mortality, resurrection, and the hope of a good surf.