


Dear Graduate – Advice I Wish I Received After High School
In the last couple of weeks, several high school graduates have asked me for advice about college. They are facing their first life-changing decision and are rightfully concerned about making good choices. So, here are all the things I wish someone had told me after I...
Is Thomas Umstattd Jr. Married?
Last year I wrote a blog post titled Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed. In that post, I explained how I went from a courtship advocate running PracticalCourtship.com to no longer believing that Modern Courtship is a viable model for most people. The post went...
I Was Wrong: A Book About Courtship & Traditional Dating (Now on Kickstarter)
It’s hard for me to admit when I’m wrong. But I was wrong about courtship. So now I’m writing a book about it.

Kathy Blair Eulogy
Today we mourn the loss of Austin’s song bird. Kathy Blair, one of the most influential people in my life. I knew Kathy through the CCSA homeschool choir…

Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed
I grew up as a member of the homeschool community. When I was a teenager, my friends started reading this new book called I Kissed Dating Goodbye. For months we could talk of little else. After reading it myself, I grew into as big an opponent of dating as you could find. Dating was evil and Courtship, whatever it was, was godly, good and Biblical.