Response From Bill Gothard

In a previous article I characterized the teaching of Bill Gothard in a manner that is not representative of his views. He graciously called to inform me of his position. I asked him to document his views in a letter to me. Here...

Serious As A Heart Attack

I’m alive! There was a time there in February that I thought I had written my last article and taught my last Bible study. I have heard the “funny” expression “serious as a heart attack” and passed it off as just a figure of...

Sobering Issues

You Ask, Michael Answers

Sobering Issues - Modesty

A woman who does not believe a young man struggles daily against visual temptation is simple.

Teaching Questions

I railed against God and told Him: “You can just have my husband! I don’t care if he ever gets saved! He’ll still be good to me and our children even if he is a heathen. I QUIT!”

The Ant

That night as we were eating the food that we had harvested that day, Gracie told her dad the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper...

The Balanced Patriarch

The amount of mail we have received in response to the former articles on the Cloistered Homeschool Movement has been phenomenal.

The Criminal

Dear Pearls,

We are the parents of 7 children, four are adopted. Once I was suspicious my husband was handling one of the girls, but when I confronted them, they both denied it.

The Fireman

When my son was three years old, I longed for him to have inspiring summer afternoons playing outside like I did when I was a child. One hot, sultry afternoon at nap time, I was reading to him his favorite little Red Fire Engine...

They’re Smarter Than You Think

Here was my half-pint grandson wrestling with reconciling the sovereignty of God with the free will of a squirrel.