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Christ Church Monteagle Observance of Fathers' Day
Bishop William Millsaps will be preaching at Christ Church this Sunday and urges everyone to consider what is often spoken of as the most urgent social need in the United States -- the absence of fathers in so many homes in this country. Bishop Millsaps recently wrote, "This subject is a painful one to face, but there is little dispute among psychologists and educators that the role that fathers have played in previous generations has been increasingly missing over recent decades. New words and phrases such as 'Father Hunger' have come into our language, and a deeper understanding of such expressions is needed in the twenty-first century, in the same way that the important role of mothers and fathers in the lives of children came to be understood better in the twentieth century. Nurturing is not a gender-based gift, but is a basic need for all people, and a calling to both women and men. Many men may have shirked their responsibilities, but a sense of caring can often be restored when social support for the fathering role is clearly understood."
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