Rick StapelChurch Basketball and Stolen BeliefsMy youngest son (Calvin; 6) had his first basketball game of the season yesterday. He made his first shot attempt and was so excited about…6 min read·Jan 16, 2024----
Rick StapelI used to watch Fear Factor up until the point its participants would start to do things like drink…I can honestly say, though, that I never anticipated the guy who presided over such a dumb thing becoming a national harbinger for dialogic…2 min read·Feb 3, 2022----
Rick StapelHelped a friend move an old upright piano out of a weary little church building tonight.So I asked the guy who let us in how long the church had been defunct, and started opening every book and hymnal I could find. I read a…2 min read·May 13, 2021----
Rick StapelVocabulary lessons: how I was taught to talk about church and school.The price of college is rising eight times faster than wages. The average cost of college has increased 3,000 percent over the past fifty…7 min read·Apr 21, 2020----
Rick StapelMy wife locked herself inside of the bathroom after her first positive pregnancy test.“Are you sitting down?”3 min read·Feb 27, 2020----
Rick StapelThe Wounded and Dead“The Germans, they would do whatever they could to kill you. They rigged dead bodies, even — booby trapped them. For the ones of us who…4 min read·Feb 24, 2020----
Rick StapelTo The Only Valentine I’ve Ever HadThe first night I met my wife I got into a fistfight she didn’t watch. I met her at a basketball game. She was 14 years old; I was 15…4 min read·Feb 14, 2020----
Rick StapelMy dad drove a beatdown old Chevy station wagon with wood-peeled side panels and red interior…She wouldn’t let her sportscar go, so he bought a shitty station wagon, a family car — the thing which held the wife and child he probably…3 min read·Feb 7, 2020----
Rick StapelThe Involuntary Affect of the People who Voluntarily Love You.My grandfather is 95 years old and has a failing heart. Every time I see him — almost every Sunday morning — he reminds me.3 min read·Feb 3, 2020----
Rick StapelRead This if You’re Thinking about Going into Business for YourselfMy old man once told me there was no honest substitute for experience. He also told me a lot of other stuff that wasn’t true. Small stuff…4 min read·Jan 22, 2020----