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Celebrating our son's marriage to his bride caused me to think longingly of the biggest and best party that will happen at the end of days,

Adoption Not Abortion. Your Baby, Your Choice: Closed Adoption, Open Adoption? I hope more moms and dads will consider adoption.

Fifteen years ago...the Holy Ghost made a special visit. He drilled deep into my soul, causing me to be overcome with sorrow...

Though it is wonderful, parenting can be hard work. As followers of Messiah, we must provide mothers in need with help...

Reproductive Freedom for All, Vote No on Proposal 3, Protect Michigan Families, Women, Men and Babies

Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this..." Proverbs

Save a Baby, Michiganders Vote NO on Proposal 3 on November 8, 2022

Last month we celebrated our son’s engagement at a brewery in the Alger Heights neighborhood of Grand Rapids. Under the laughter and my...

Is urgently and unapologetically protecting the most defenseless among us--without exceptions--extreme?

I’ve been on a 27-year expedition that is coming to a close. If raising them was a great inhale, it’s about time for a seismic exhale.

Minutes after Isabella Marie Spry was born, Scott holds his fourth-born, September 2004 Some babies are adorable. Some, maybe not so...

WARNING: This post contains disturbing graphic content. “Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them....

We are about to embark on an exciting new adventure. We three are absolutely smitten by this adorable new adventure. His name is Buck.

It has been a gradual transition, watching our four children launch into adulthood. Nine years ago as our first child prepared to leave...

Life can often be beautiful and rosy. Sometimes dull, lonely or exciting. And sometimes, due to reasons we can control and other times...

Summer 2021 is now history. It was abundantly good. God is good. I am constantly in awe of his mercy and favor. The following photo essay...

"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him."

Disenchantment really hit me hard when life wasn’t perfect after 8th grade. School isn’t easy, some people aren’t nice, seasonal . . .

(Thank you to our dear daughter, Bailey June, for sharing her poetry.) For Jake Red. The color of your little boots, feet on the wrong...

Just as lighthouses guide ship and boat captains through rough waters, each of us needs to find guiding lights to help us navigate life.