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Gretchen RonnevikFamilyParenting
Luther's dictum that the entire Christian life is one of repentance applies as much to the challenge of parenting teenagers as it does anything else.
Jake MeadorFamilyChurchMarriageSexuality
On why we never ask deeper questions and instead mostly yell at heavily bearded conservative men on Twitter for making creepy comments about yoga pants
Rachel Roth AldhizerFamilyGenderMarriage
Our world regards beauty as a kind of consumptive good, something to be bought, sold, and consumed. But beauty isn't a product; it's a gift with a purpose.
Jake MeadorFamilyBook ReviewsCommunities
I had a couple people ask about my thoughts on some of the pushback against my thread last week, particularly as it relates to Dr. Robinson’s essays here. There are two separate issues so I’m going to try to take […]
Brad EdwardsFamilyFeaturedCulture
J. M. Barrie first wrote Peter Pan as a play in 1904, expanding it into a full novel in 1911. Nothing he wrote before or since would ever come close to sparking such popular reception. It tapped into and articulated […]
Rhys LavertyFamilyFeaturedEconomics and Business
“Stick man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three.” So begins Stick Man—my son’s favourite bedtime story. Parents of a certain age will know it well. Julia Donaldson (of The Gruffalo fame) spins a lovely […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyCulture
There are different levels of responsibility for churches and Christians. How do we sort them all out?
Jake MeadorFamily
A number of questions have come up in response to the piece on the main site concerning the Respect for Marriage Act and what I guess one might call the political theology of Tolkien, who I built the essay around. […]
Zach HollifieldFamilyFeatured
Alex and Sarah are Christians who have been married for five years. They have 2 children and would like to have more. However, they feel called to adopt as the route to parenting more children. Their only hesitation is that […]
Katelyn Walls SheltonFamilyFeaturedJournalJournal 3
Lyz Lenz. Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women. New York: Bold Type Books, 2020. 240pp, $26. At church, I was taught that if a woman denied sex to her husband, he would find sex elsewhere. At church, […]
Rory GrovesFamilyFeaturedFormationJournalJournal 3
When we moved to our farm several years ago with a toddler and newborn in tow, we mainly had it in mind to experience a bit of the country life: to plant a large garden and perhaps raise a few […]
Jake MeadorFamilyFeaturedFormation
Mat Feltner died at a hospital in Lincoln this week. Obviously it wasn’t Feltner himself — he lives nowhere outside of the mind of Wendell Berry, the pages of his novels, and the imaginations of the many thousands of us […]