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Kelly GivensFamilyFeaturedEducation
This past winter, my six-year-old began each day looking out the window. I would hear him roll out of bed, feet hit the floor, his footsteps moving toward one of the windows in his room. I knew what he was […]
Rachel Roth AldhizerFamilyFeaturedFormation
“The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” I think about this verse often. I am not sure who counts as a righteous person, and I’m not sure how to qualify “working.” The sentence before […]
Ian MosleyFamilyFeaturedCultureEconomics and Business
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill has led to much reflection on the state of the modern evangelical soul. One thing that stood out from the podcast is that Driscoll and many like him have capitalized on the perception […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation
There are two primary problems with "failing schools" and American children. Don't confuse them.
Grace HumblesFamilyFeatured
Every day, 385,000 newborn babies enter the world. A fledgling group of theorists and writers is interested in reimagining how we think about these births and the children they produce. Using the provocative tagline “Abolish the Family,” this group of […]
Bill MeloneFamilyFeatured
After years of secondary infertility, my wife and I discovered she was pregnant on Father’s Day of 2016. It was a stunning moment for us, a seemingly miraculous answer to prayers that we had mostly given up on. But three […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEconomicsEducation
What we mean when we talk about "the liberal order" or "liberalism" and why it's destroying us.
Jake MeadorFamilyEconomics
Matt Yglesias has an astute piece noting some reasons for concern amongst progressives re: the long string of success their movement has enjoyed with regards to LGBT+ issues: We had a roughly 10-year period of political routs (starting with the […]
Rachel Roth AldhizerFamilyFeaturedembodiment
When I was pregnant with my son David Samuel, born in the heat of last July, I wondered if I could make a sort of bargain with God. I knew David would be disabled, and I prayed either that God […]
Rory GrovesFamilyFeaturedEconomics and Business
An epochal shift is underway; one that social scientists will dissect for decades. And it doesn’t bode well for corporate America. In what economists are calling ‘The Great Resignation’, one-third of the employed workforce—over 47 million laborers—quit their jobs in […]
Joshua HeavinFamilyFeaturedCurrent Politics
Christians and even some non-Christian philosophers regularly strive to ‘remember death,’ but few of us seem willing to remember our birth. Only a few paragraphs into Augustine’s Confessions, he recalls the grace of God given to him by his own […]
Brandon McGinleyFamilyFeaturedJournalJournal 1
Paula S. Fass. The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. $19.95, 352 pp. Perhaps more than anything else, Paula S. Fass’s learned and engaging […]