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Parental Love: a conversation with Jonathan Banning

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This week on the Love Better podcast we are talking parenting, discipline, learning about love as fathers, and the first world problems American parents face. I'm talking with my friend and colleague Jonathan Banning. Jonathan is a fellow adoptive father, an evangelist for the Temple Terrace church of Christ in Temple Terrace, FL, and a strong advocate for Christianity being more than just a way of worship on Sundays. If you are a parent of young children, thinking about adoption, trying to find balance in your parenting style or simply love learning about how God loves us, this is the episode

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