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Agnes R. Howard teaches in Christ College, the honors college at Valparaiso University. She is the author of Showing: What Pregnancy Tells Us about Being Human (Eerdmans, 2020) and Disoriented: Embodied Life in Strange Times (forthcoming, Cascade, 2026).
Agnes HowardBooksFamilySummer 2026Journal
My confidence about families in the future is fueled not so much by political reform or the normalizing of gender-neutral chore spreadsheets, but because I have seen so many astonishing young people who understand themselves as making together the life they value together.
Agnes HowardBooksFamily
When the world inflicts injuries on children, mothers feel the hurts too. Motherhood sticks in our faces the incommensurateness of us all, our insufficiency for each other, our desire for others’ good, our causing harm by trying to help.
Agnes HowardBooksJournalFall 2025
Americans prefer to think of dependence as a preparatory step before we turn into what we really are—autonomous self-makers. Sargeant skewers this folly.
