Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit writes that “We are our stories, stories that can be both prison and the crowbar to break out of that prison.” Stories we create do, indeed, constrict or liberate our spirit, especially when they involve parents and parenting. On Father’s Day 2025, we’ll hear Fellowship members’ narratives about their fathers/ father figures, or about their own experience of fathering, that they’ve constructed or reconstructed to develop more compassionate and beneficial perspectives on fathering and being fathered.

Topics: Gratitude, Soul Matters Themes