Russ Ewell, Executive Minister of Bay Area Christian Church, answered a father’s question on Axis Conversations about staying present with his kids amid job transitions, legal battles, and a neurodivergent son’s needs — pointing to closeness with God as the real source of the internal faith it takes to do, and not do, what fatherhood requires. Ewell frames faithful fatherhood as a matter of narrowing: learning to say no so that what matters most, shaping your children’s hearts, has room to become the center of a well-ordered life.
🎧 Listen to the full episode: “One of my kids is neurodivergent. What does faithful fatherhood look like in the trenches?” on Axis Conversations
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