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FamilyGenderNadya Williams

Sex-Realist Feminism and Christianity: A Report from the Fairer Disputations Conference

The convention turned out to be something that showed a real possibility of scaling up intellectually honest and deep conversations about gender in our world.

Abbey von GohrenBooksFamilyTheology

Images of Divine Love in the Love of a Mother

A conversation with Elizabeth Berget about the ways in which the love of a mother for her child mirrors and illuminates the love of God for his people and for the world

Nadya WilliamsBooksJournalSummer 2026FamilySexuality

Cultivating a Well-Ordered Anthropology in a Dehumanizing World

We’re today’s Roman emperors, declaring ourselves gods. It’s going about as well for us as it did for folks like Nero.

ObituaryFormationElizabeth SticeFamily

Delicious Life

What does it mean to “taste and see that the Lord is good?” It may be reflected in dying like my grandmother, without a bitter taste in the mouth.

Tessa CarmanJournalSummer 2026FamilyCultureBooks

Homeschooling Is More Normal Than You Think

Homeschooling matters because by its very nature—in all its non-standardized, messy, unwieldy glory—it is a movement against the professionalization, standardization, and replacement of the human being.

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When Everything Is Forgotten

The following excerpt from Joseph Orso, On the Threshold of Worlds: Tending My Father Before and After His Last Breath is published with permission from Front Porch Republic Books and

BooksFamilyHolly Stockley

The Case for Tending Our Dead at Home

Minor quibbles about practicalities aside, this book about caring for our dead and reclaiming old rituals and practices that once made up the fabric of community is really asking a deeper question: What stitches us to our places?

BooksSexualityFamilyCultureBeatrice ScudelerJournalSummer 2026

Something 'Wicked' This Way Comes

Gress doesn’t deliver on her promise of a rigorous, methodical takedown of feminism as an ideology. Her account is partial at best, and misleading at worst. 

BooksCultureFamilyVika PecherskyJournalSummer 2026

Bringing Up Nietzsche

We desperately need popular-level engagement with skepticism, especially the Nietzschean kind, in our churches. 'The Devil Reads Nietzsche' is a timely resource for many Christians, who might feel beaten down by the skepticism and even nihilism of our times. 

Agnes HowardBooksFamilySummer 2026Journal

Constructing a Common Good

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.

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Classical Education is for Everyone

Prioritizing an education in the virtues, therefore, is a political exercise of supreme importance for the wellbeing of any state. Classical Christian education today certainly aims to recover this mission—thus the emphasis in the book’s title on “the American Mind.”

Agnes HowardBooksFamily

Motherhood, Never Done

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.