Happy Sunday, and happy Father’s Day.

Such a greeting isn’t merely a rote salutation for scholar Dylan Pahman. He writes today about his strained relationship with his own father, the rebuilding of that relationship in adulthood, and the realization—amid his conversion to the Orthodox Church—that our understanding of God as Father can be a life-changing one.

Michael Reneau

Michael Reneau is the executive editor at The Dispatch and is based in Greeneville, Tennessee. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he was editor of WORLD Magazine and for several years was editor of a daily newspaper in East Tennessee. When Michael isn’t editing, he stays plenty busy with his wife and four kids.

Dylan Pahman

Dylan Pahman is president of the St. Nicholas Cabasilas Institute for Orthodoxy & Liberty, a research fellow at the Acton Institute, and the author of The Kingdom of God and the Common Good and Foundations of a Free & Virtuous Society. He is also co-editor of The Christian Roots of American Liberty, a sourcebook charting the Christian prehistory of American founding principles through the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds.

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Happy Sunday, and happy Father’s Day.

Michael Reneau

Dylan Pahman

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