Today we begin our podcast series on the July/August edition of FrontLine, featuring the theme "Growing Fathers."

Growing Fathers is not only the theme of this edition but it is also a blog and a podcast. We include links here in our show notes. Our conversation today is with Kristopher Schaal who put the magazine together this time.

His duties here came on short notice as one of our regular Associate Editors has suffered some health problems and has had to step down. Kris and his co-authors from Growing Fathers stepped into the breach and did an excellent job.

Our conversation covered the ministry of Growing Fathers, how it came about, what the authors are trying to do with it and so on. It's a ministry we follow with interest and really want you to follow it as well, especially if you are in the category of a young dad.

And even if, like me, you are not a young dad (or young mom) anymore … well, I still feel young, most days … this ministry is one you can pass on to your grown sons or young people you know. I just subscribed to the podcast and have been blessed by the topics I've listened to so far. This is good stuff, pass it on.

Now, normally, the person I'm interviewing also has an article in the magazine that we make available to our paying subscribers. This time, we only have the opening editorial by Kris, which we have already published on Proclaim & Defend blog site. I'll give you that link also.

All that's left for me to do now is to ask you to join with us and support the ministry of the FBFI by becoming a paying subscriber.

Growing Fathers Links:

Growing Fathers Blog | Helping Christian Dads Grow

Growing Fathers Podcast | Helping Christian Dads Grow

Proclaim & Defend: Contents and Editorial

Growing Fathers (FrontLine July/August 2025) – Proclaim & Defend

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