Episodes

  • Episode 21: Be The House

    Episode 21: Be The House
    Jan 20 2026
    Somewhere between the Dr Pepper aisle and the checkout line, I realized our grocery cart was telling on us. This episode starts in a small rural grocery store and ends in a much bigger place— what it really means to be “the house.” The one kids linger in. The one that feels steady. The one where nobody’s hiding. Along the way, I share a few moments that changed how I see our home, our neighborhood, and the quiet responsibility that comes with having an open door. No big speeches. Just a real story about ordinary houses—and why they matter more than we think.
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    6 mins
  • Episode 20: What They're Reaching For

    Episode 20: What They're Reaching For
    Jan 13 2026
    My kids choose YouTube over TV almost every time. And for a while, that bothered me more than I wanted to admit. This episode isn’t about screen-time rules or defending the internet. It’s about noticing what our kids are reaching for when things get quiet — and what our responsibility is as parents when the world they’re growing up in looks nothing like the one we knew. No prescriptions. No panic. Just a parent thinking out loud and trying to stay close
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    5 mins
  • Episode 19: I Lost the Game. I Won the Night.

    Episode 19: I Lost the Game. I Won the Night.
    Jan 6 2026
    On New Year’s Eve, Craig had a plan. Football. Food that lives in baskets. A night built around the College Football Playoff. Then something unexpected happened in the living room. In this episode, Craig talks about missing part of the game and gaining something better—an unscheduled moment with his wife and daughters that reminded him how easily joy can sit right in front of us while we’re focused somewhere else. This isn’t a lecture. It’s a story about attention, timing, and learning—sometimes the hard way—that the best moments don’t ask for the remote.
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    5 mins
  • Episode 18: How I Learned Not To Vanish

    Episode 18: How I Learned Not To Vanish
    Dec 30 2025
    When I get overwhelmed, I don’t raise my voice. I disappear. This episode is about what that silence sounds like to the people who love you, especially your kids. It’s about the moment I realized my quiet wasn’t neutral, and how one simple signal helped me stay present even when my nervous system shut everything down. Just a real moment from our house, and the small change that shifted the fear in the room.
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    7 mins
  • Episode 17: The Star We Forgot

    Episode 17: The Star We Forgot
    Dec 9 2025
    When Craig’s eight-year-old daughter walks into the living room, takes one look at the Christmas tree, and declares, “It’s not Christmas,” he realizes she’s not talking about presents or decorations. She’s talking about the missing star— and the missing hope so many of us feel this time of year. In this episode of One Minute Later, Craig explores why the biblical Christmas story didn’t arrive in a peaceful world, and why that matters now more than ever. From cultural tension and broken relationships to division inside the church, he shares how the original Star of Bethlehem wasn’t meant to decorate anything…it was meant to defy the darkness.
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    6 mins
  • Episode 16: The Year We Invaded Christmas

    Episode 16: The Year We Invaded Christmas
    Dec 2 2025
    In this Christmas episode, Craig returns to the tradition that officially launched the holiday season in his childhood: his mom’s massive, meticulously arranged Department 56 village… and the year he and his brother staged a full-scale military invasion on it. What starts as a hilarious trip down memory lane slowly bumps into the present—fifteen totes still sitting in the basement, a tradition waiting for time that never seems to come, and the quiet realization that the memories are worth the mess. Honest, warm, a little chaotic, and very Christmas… just like the village itself.
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    12 mins
  • Episode 15: The Grandparent Gift Gauntlet

    Episode 15: The Grandparent Gift Gauntlet
    Nov 25 2025
    This week, Craig dives into the wild world of Christmas lists—past and present. From his childhood dream of a Nintendo he never got, to his kids circling practically everything in the Amazon toy catalog, to the very specific gifting styles of both grandmas… and of course, Uncle Roger’s annual delivery of holiday-themed noise machines engineered in the depths of chaos. It’s a story about lists, surprises (or lack thereof), and the quirks that shape the traditions our kids will remember long after the batteries die.
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    7 mins
  • Episode 14: Confessions of a Sleepover Hostage

    Episode 14: Confessions of a Sleepover Hostage
    Nov 18 2025
    Craig thought hosting his daughter’s first tween sleepover would be simple—maybe loud, maybe sticky, but manageable. What he got instead was a full-scale girl-powered cyclone involving candy, high-frequency shrieks, attempted feline costume fittings, and one very illegal walk across the sofa. Left alone while Jen was called into work, Craig finds himself negotiating chaos, protecting household furniture, and hiding in his bedroom to avoid saying something that lands him on a parenting blog. Somewhere in the madness, though… something like patience starts to grow. Or maybe that’s just survival. A funny, honest, slightly unhinged look at the moments that stretch us—and the God who sits with us even when the cat is filing an HR complaint.
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    7 mins