by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | May 5, 2015 | Personal
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...
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Jan 13, 2015 | Christian Living, Courtship, Life Events, Personal
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.
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Dec 21, 2014 | Life Events, Personal
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…
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Aug 12, 2014 | Christian Living, Courtship, Personal
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.
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Nov 20, 2013 | Life Events, Personal
Somehow I found myself in a Mastermind Group with a bunch of authors. If you are wondering how Thomas (not an author) started hanging in an author mastermind group, I can tell you I have no idea. If memory serves me correctly, one of them saw me at a writer’s...
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Oct 29, 2013 | Life Events, Personal
I started using Facebook back in September 2005. In those days, Facebook had big brother in the logo and was only for college students. I remember when Facebook came to UMHB. There was a mad rush on the IT department of students doing password resets so that they...