What is your guys take on Ephesians 5? What does it mean, from a husband’s perspective, for you wife to submit to you? A snippet from my take found here: This is the part that most people are familiar with and there is probably the greatest controversy about this part of the passage. Should a [...]

I just finished posting a blog on avoiding scandal/putting your best foot forward. . . . . The list of possibilities goes on and on with homeschooling and having a bad day, should you appear anything less than having the perfectly ordered life when at times you would rather sit and spend twenty minutes venting [...]

The Curt Jester tagged me for this Meme and I have in turn tagged 5 of my fellow Catholic Dads…….I apologize in advance for the last video. Play the Dad? Be the Dad!: Why I love Jesus Meme Under the Mercy, Matthew S

Over the past week my wife and I went and saw the third installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, and one of the trailers was “from the people that brought you Lord of the Rings” (I don’t know if it is the special effects people or who or what they did) and it showed a [...]

I am officially announcing the Blog Carnival for Catholic Dads. What I want everyone to do is think back and think about Dad’s love. What do you remember and what does it mean? You will have 2 weeks to work on your submission, get it posted on your blog and notify me of it. I [...]

Well all, I found my 7 month old doing something cute and just had to share but it got me to thinking about sex education again and I threw out my ideas/rant on it…..anyway, the cute picture is at the bottom and I appreciate any ideas you might have. Under the Mercy,Matthew S Play the [...]

With all the hype around the blogosphere that had been going on I am suprised that it has kind of died out lately. I have found a couple news stories that have been translated from other languages that are good reading. Oh, and I let the Motu Propio bug bite me, I got infected with [...]

Fellow Dads, One of the things that my wife struggles with is identifying the logical fallacies in arguments presented. My wife has the gut knowledge that something is wrong but at times has trouble expressing it. As a seminarian in minor seminary for two years I took many philosophy classes. It is also one of [...]

Hey, everyone out their, its Matt from Play the Dad? Be the Dad! and I have a question for ya. One of the things my wife and I have noticed my older child attempting to get out of her “Just Punishments” resulting from her disobedience. Now, I consider this direct defiance of her parents and [...]

Thought everyone might like to listen to this edition of “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”. I wrote some thoughts about it and find this stirring, especially for fathers of daughters. Mother of daughters would enjoy it as well. I think it could also provide some insight for Fathers and Mothers of Daughters. It is [...]