The Ascent Has Only Begun: Why I Built the American Family Renaissance

There is a moment that happens in almost every conversation I have with a man who is struggling. He talks for a while. He gives me the surface report. Work is fine. Family is fine. Church is fine. Then something shifts in his voice, and he tells me the truth: he is carrying something alone, […]

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