Our Ill-Conceived Retreat
Chief Executive Orphan
July 29, 2025
Ideas can be fallen just as we are fallen. They can be sinful just as we too are sinful. But
Ideas can be fallen just as we are fallen. They can be sinful just as we too are sinful. But
Educator, theologian, and philosopher George Walter Fiske (1852–1917) teaches that there are eleven great verbs of life—each one a cornerstone
Have you ever wondered why some children not only survive but even flourish after experiencing terrible life events? Illness, divorce,
I believe poor people often have poor ways—not because they’re inherently flawed, but because poverty has a way of degrading
I want you to imagine you are a lifeguard. But I want you to imagine much more than that. Imagine
Nearly every hardship a vulnerable child endures can be traced to one of four origins: a private adult decision, a
So many children are waiting. Waiting for the day they feel good. Waiting for the day they feel safe. Waiting
I find it heartbreaking that so many children today must use a variety of qualifying adjectives to describe the men
They learned early how to read silence,
how to measure danger in the flicker of an eye,
how to become small enough to survive
but wide enough to absorb the ache of a house that never felt like home.
It’s difficult to honor a love that was never given, or to celebrate a figure who failed to live up to the ideal of motherhood.
Ideas can be fallen just as we are fallen. They can be sinful just as we too are sinful. But
Educator, theologian, and philosopher George Walter Fiske (1852–1917) teaches that there are eleven great verbs of life—each one a cornerstone
Have you ever wondered why some children not only survive but even flourish after experiencing terrible life events? Illness, divorce,
I believe poor people often have poor ways—not because they’re inherently flawed, but because poverty has a way of degrading
I want you to imagine you are a lifeguard. But I want you to imagine much more than that. Imagine
Nearly every hardship a vulnerable child endures can be traced to one of four origins: a private adult decision, a
So many children are waiting. Waiting for the day they feel good. Waiting for the day they feel safe. Waiting
I find it heartbreaking that so many children today must use a variety of qualifying adjectives to describe the men
They learned early how to read silence,
how to measure danger in the flicker of an eye,
how to become small enough to survive
but wide enough to absorb the ache of a house that never felt like home.
It’s difficult to honor a love that was never given, or to celebrate a figure who failed to live up to the ideal of motherhood.
