Marriage as a Cop
Ask most officers, “Who are you?” and the answer starts with the job: “I’m a cop.” That’s understandable. Law enforcement isn’t just a paycheck;...
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The Thin Blue Life
- Articles
Trust Is Built Face-to-Face: What National Night Out Reminds Us About Policing
Why Your Spouse Doesn’t Feel Loved (Even When You Swear You’re Trying): A Love-Language Guide for Cops
HALT Before You Blow Up: Timing Your Words So Your Police Marriage Survives the Job
Your Tone Is Louder Than Your Sidearm: How Cop Nonverbals Are Sabotaging Your Marriage
Forgiveness Without Becoming a Doormat: A Survival Skill for Police Marriages
- Videos
Why America Still Needs Cops: A Christian Detective’s Case for Law Enforcement (Video)
Why Police Officers Need to Understand the Connection Between Trauma and Identity (Video)
Can a Detective Really Make a Case for Jesus? (Video)
How A Detective Might Make the Case for God (Video)
Crime Fighters: Why Would A Good God Allow Moral Evil? (Video)
- Podcasts
Cops, Christians, and a Culture on Edge (Podcast)
Cops Know the Difference Between Evidence and Proof (Podcast)
How a Murder and a Few Google Employees Demonstrated the Existence of God (Podcast)
What Should Christians Think About The State Of Law Enforcement In America? (Podcast)
How to Find Peace in the Chaos of Law Enforcement (Podcast)
Working as a Believer
On the first Tuesday of August, neighborhoods across America participated in an event that rarely makes the national headlines in the way a critical...
Marriage as a Cop
Most of us, as cops, aren’t struggling in our marriages because we don’t love our spouses. We’re struggling because we don’t always understand precisely...
Marriage as a Cop
Most cops do not ruin their marriage because of one catastrophic moment; we erode it through a thousand badly timed conversations. We walk in...
Marriage as a Cop
Police officers are professional communicators. We write reports that hold up in court, brief supervisors, de-escalate suspects, and testify under pressure. We know how...
Marriage as a Cop
Every law enforcement couple carries a story that never makes it into social media posts or Christmas letters. The critical incidents, the dead victims,...
Marriage as a Cop
If you’re a police officer who’s married, you know you didn’t walk into your marriage as a blank slate. You brought your training, your...
Nature of Law Enforcement
Every few weeks, a new article pops up trying to tell “the other side” of the policing story, like Police1’s ongoing “The Up-Beat: Feel-good...
Nature of Law Enforcement
A recent story out of Washington Township, New Jersey captures what is best about policing: saving lives. Police1 reported that officers responded to a March...
Working as a Believer
Cole Tomas Allen’s attempt to murder the president at the Washington media dinner has suddenly put Torrance – and everyone who ever wore a...
Engaging Culture
Every time a police video goes viral, the script is the same: a clip rips across social media, emotions spike, narratives harden, and within hours millions of...
Working as a Believer
As a cop, you know that some events are painful, and some events are utterly shattering, leaving people unable to move forward for years...
Nature of Law Enforcement
On a Monday evening in Southeast Washington, D.C., a U.S. Park Police officer was shot while simply driving an unmarked vehicle as part of...
Investigating Christianity
Faith isn’t supposed to be blind, and as cops, we already live that reflects the evidential perspective of the Christian worldview. Like the earliest...
Marriage as a Cop
