Farewell From Boundless

Does your stomach hurt? Are you jittery? Short of breath? Losing sleep? If so, you must live in Detroit. Detroit was recently named the “most stressful place to live and work” in a survey of 50 metropolitan areas within the United States. Unemployment, …

Apparently we Boundless bloggers have Japan on the mind. Yesterday, Suzanne told us about Japanese divorce ceremonies. Today, I bring to your attention to a new trend in that country, a trend that seems, at least to us Westerners, equally bizarre. I’m …

An entrepreneur in Japan has devised a new way of untying the knot: divorce ceremonies. One in four marriages in Japan end in divorce, and for $606 (U.S. currency), a couple may employ Hiroki Terai’s services to ceremoniously call it quits. According t …

About a month ago, Focus on the Family announced a realignment prompted by a number of things, including a desire to refocus our efforts on what Focus does best — share the gospel, help folks build strong marriages and families, speak for those who ca …

After 13 exciting and life-shaping years at Focus on the Family, Candice and I are leaving to start a new chapter. We’ve been richly blessed to be able to launch and grow the Boundless ministry over the last dozen years. It still seems like just yester …

On the CT Her.meneutics blog, Jenell Williams Paris asks if one should avoid friending “old flames” on Facebook, particularly if one is married. She answers the question with a dose of “better safe than sorry,” with which I agree. But something that st …

My mother’s been going through my father’s papers lately, and she came across some things my father wrote in his 20s and 30s (before I was born): his reflections, his self-analyses, that sort of thing. Reading them, I was struck by how much alike my fa …

My friend slash mentor slash former coworker, Chris, pointed me a few days ago to an interesting article on Relevant, titled “Is This God’s Voice or Mine?” The title alone compelled me. I know I’ve found myself wondering if some thought I’m having, esp …