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This Week from The Dad Hammer Pub: Awesome, Courageous Fatherhood Passed Down to Our Children

Jack Heimbigner
Sep 8, 2018 · 2 min read
Photo by Natalya Zaritskaya on Unsplash

This week we had four new stories which touched on past, present, and future for fatherhood. Our writers shared a tribute for the late Senator McCain and how his fathers shaped who he was as well as thoughts on their current life situation as a father.

Every week, we find ourselves learning something new, being challenged and finding ways to stretch out our lives further into our children by these stories and I find it very encouraging.

Here are our stories from this week:

5 Ways John McCain’s faith was his Father’s

By M.M. O'Keefe

“As a father of two sons, that challenges and inspires me, raising this question: how can my fallible, farherly faith shape and enrich my sons?”

The Courage of a Father

By Jack Heimbigner

If fatherhood was easy, there would be no fatherless children in our culture today. When we sit down and talk to people or see what is happening around us, we here the stories of fathers who were not in the home, or not present when at home. Dads who might have been there, but didn’t seem to care. All of these stories are heartbreaking to me.

Being a Dad Is Awesome…

By Wayne Smith

I’m gonna hit you with a shocker right from the start. Being a dad isn’t easy. Especially if you have a daughter.

I’m Done Telling My Kids to be Careful

By Brandon Weldy

I was pushing the cart in Wal-Mart with our youngest son. I was bringing up the end of our family train as all six of us were out shopping. Right in front of me our “marches to the beat of a different drum” four-year-old was walking along looking at everything that was not right in front of him.


If you have liked any of these stories or they have prompted you to share a story about your dad or journey of fatherhood, here are our submission guidelines. You can find out how to sign up to be a writer and what we are looking for in our stories.

Thank you for reading along this week and we will see you next week.

-The Dad Hammer Pub

Jack Heimbigner

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