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Moses is our true founding father.
Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.
May your first word be adventure and last word love.
I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.
There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.
Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.
You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.
Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.
Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down
I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.
Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.
Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.
Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.
I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.
Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.
Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.
Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.
All couples have been told to schedule regular one-on-one time. 'Date night' is the default answer to most problems in modern marriages. And research backs this up.
I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.
Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.
Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.
The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.
I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.
The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?
'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.