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Honor Your Father and Mother
No more of parental rules,” declares Calvin (from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes) as he and Hobbes strut north to be masters of their fate in the frozen Yukon. “Good riddance to those grown-up ghouls!” Life will be grand, so Calvin thinks, because there he won’t need to put up with—much less honor—his parents. In a culture that honors youth, “Honor your father and your mother” (Ex. 20:12a) makes no sense. Isn’t honor something we seek for ourselves? So what’s all this about giving it to others? The Cult of Youth Our tolerant culture has zero tolerance for … View Resource

Douglas Bond
Douglas Bond is director of the Oxford Creative Writing Master Class, a ruling elder in the PCA, a conference speaker, a leader of church history tours in Europe, and adjunct instructor in church history at Western Reformed Seminary in Tacoma, Wash. He is author of numerous books, including The Mighty Weakness of John Knox and Grace Works!