At a parents' night out, a teenage babysitter at church was not being watched. He took an 8-year-old boy outside and fondled him.

Unfortunately, many times the church is that place that provides that quick and easy access to children. This imposes a six-month period of time in which you're going to get to know this person better.

At the end of the night, we are able to give them an invitation to church. It's fun. It's exciting.

I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.

Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not.
That's completely asinine.
The truth is that adults love in different ways, not the only way.

I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father was the Activities Director, and my mother was the General Secretary of the church.So I grew up in this church environment, but at the same time I had these thoughts of rebellion.