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Gracy OlmsteadFamilyFeatured

Markets and the Strangulation of the American Family | Mere Orthodoxy

If the American people care about the family, it's high time we start to act like it because, as two recent books show, the American family is struggling.

Kirsten SandersFamilyFeaturedAnthropology

Tethered Still - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I am a mother and a theologian. These two facts belong together, inextricable as they are for me and my experience of them. I was pregnant with my first child as I began my doctoral work; I carried her to […]

Tessa CarmanFamilyCultureFormationJournalSpring 2025

Why I Don't Like the Term "Homeschool"

All of life is education, regardless of what sort of formal schooling your children participate in.

Kirsten SandersFamilyMarriageFormationJournalSpring 2025

Forsaking All Others

To have at the end of your life one single story, a promise that was kept, would gesture to all the things you did not choose.

Stiven PeterFamilyTechnology

The Case Against In Vitro Fertilization

The limitations of moral reasoning via proof texting has left many Christians ill equipped to consider a practice like in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Jim LocklearFamilyFormation

Children of Men

Human beings are connected in such a way that we can recognize and experience the pain of our neighbors, even those quite distant from us in time.

Isaac DeValoisFamilyTheologyFormation

Am I My Father's Keeper?

The Fifth Word is about far more than simply being obedient as a child. It speaks to something more primal and basic to our humanity.

Nadya WilliamsFamilySexuality

The Babies Money Can Buy

We are creating a society capable of a surprising and unprecedented level of cruelty aimed at mothers.

Jake MeadorFamilyCurrent Politics

The Rotten Fruit of Obergefell: On the Kelly Loving Act

The Kelly Loving Act currently being debated in Colorado is the predictable consequence of marriage revisionism.

Nadya WilliamsFamilyFormation

In Praise of Being Inconvenient

The person who refuses to be inconvenienced by people is a person who refuses the blessing of sacrificially giving of oneself.

Joel CariniFamilyEthicsSexuality

Pro-Natalism After the Fall

Children are not pawns in the culture war, but it also is not wrong to have seemingly 'earthly' reasons for wanting to have them.

Jared HaydenBibleFamilySexuality

No Longer Pitiable

We shouldn't say marriage is 'normative' and celibacy an aberration. What is normative is the faithful offering of oneself to God, regardless of vocation.