Can anything good happen on social media? Well, yes. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Most of the time, Twitter's a wasteland, a dark world of rancor, recriminations, and moral posturing.

But every once in a while, to quote the classic movie Dumb and Dumber, it goes and redeems itself.

Anthony Bradley, professor at the King's College in New York, recently noted on Twitter that most father-son photos on social media are of younger sons.

It's like they stop once the boy hits teenage years.

That time when a father's influence becomes most crucial in a young man's development.

So he challenged dads to celebrate their teenage sons by posting photos with the hashtag,

This is My Beloved Teenage Son.

And proud dads, from all walks of life life did just that, proudly posing with their sons

for all the world to see. Good for them. See, pop culture portrays fathers in such diminished

negative ways, but studies consistently show not only that dads matter, but that they're

essential for flourishing. The full family of mom and dad is part of God's blessing to people everywhere.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.