This Father's Day, let's we fathers ask ourselves how we're actually doing at our job. I've had the privilege of speaking to fathers now for four decades, and put together this short little list of questions to help men focus their efforts with their children.

Few events in America’s history have been as influential - or as complicated - as the bloody war between our southern and northern states. No other event has so vividly underscored our strengths and weaknesses as a people and as a nation, and no other event has so changed our citizenry and our government.

What makes an exceptional mother? Intensive, self-sacrificing care and protection of her children. As we step into a new year, I want to honor a woman whose life as an exceptional 20th Century mother is stretching into the 21st with an ever-expanding legacy of passionate mothering -- even though her own children are grown. In my estimation, my wife Victoria is the Mother of the Century twice over. Her grown children are now sharing their mother’s warm and compassionate attention with a new generation of 21st Century children.

At the dawn of the 20th Century, a cultural leader said, “Culture is what we build to impress our girlfriends.” Well, by the end of the century, girlfriends were not very impressed. The world seemed to be crumbling, and the women of 20th Century became some of the most pessimistic and disappointed of history. Why? Geoffrey Botkin concludes this five-part series describing what will become the foundation of a reverse trend: the ever-increasing optimism in the 21st Century.

Weak churchmen have bought into a theology of pessimism and are uncomfortable with virtue. There is widespread embarrassment over what the Bible says about Civilization and sin. . But moral derangement and moral bankruptcy hurt people. And then devastate society. Several generations of families have been ruined by moral disorder. And now a suffering society wants cultural foundations back.