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Church: Essential or Non-Essential? - The Crossing Blog

With the pandemic, society argues whether church is “essential” or “non-essential.” What about you? How important is Sunday morning church?

Jake MeadorFamily

Children, Culture Wars, and Christian Societies | Commonplaces

Children are not soldiers to help us win culture wars. Even so, it is nearly impossible to speak Christianly about the family without attracting ridicule.

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

Public Education, Justice, and Solidarity - Doctors Without Boredom

The insanity of New York's preschool interviews shows how broken meritocracy is. But justice is more than just sending your kid to a diverse school.

Daniel DeCarloFamilyFeatured

Love in the Time of Jordan Peterson | Mere Orthodoxy

Jordan Peterson's project is largely about reconciling disillusioned young men to a neo-liberal order that otherwise doesn't have room for them.

Myles WerntzFamilyFeaturedEthics

The Burden of Parenting: In Praise of Christian Simplicity | Mere Orthodoxy

Christian simplicity is not only a call to a certain way of material life, it is a call toward orienting our lives toward the God who is simple.

Matthew LoftusFamily

Jenny & Tyler, "A Boy & a Girl (We're Getting Older)" - Doctors Without Boredom

Sorry there was no post yesterday. Today I wanted to share a sweet music video from Jenny & Tyler’s latest record, There Will Be A Song:

Matthew LoftusFamily

The Tech-Wise Family Challenge - Doctors Without Boredom

My wife and I read Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family last year and really enjoyed it. (We have also really enjoyed putting some of its recommendations into practice! Now, there’s a 21-day challenge you can do with your family, starting […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEthicsEducation

education and all God's children - Doctors Without Boredom

I really appreciated D.L. Mayfield’s essay about educating our children and “gifted and talented” programs: What is the right relationship to educational choice for the Christian? It’s complicated, and I often think about what Paul was trying to communicate in […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCulture

what if there's nothing to assimilate to? - Doctors Without Boredom

Shadi Hamid continues to be indispensable in thinking through issues of identity, belief, and assimilation in America: In short, Muslims are becoming more integrated, but they are becoming more integrated within only one half of the country, the Democratic one. […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEducation

culture is learning to be free - Doctors Without Boredom

This is a fascinating interview with Patrick Deneen at the ever-worthwhile Comment magazine (subscribe now for $30/year!) Liberalism ends in slavery because its notion of freedom involves the pursuit of desires that can never be sated, that can never be fulfilled. […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyEthics

stopping adultery with honesty - Doctors Without Boredom

Judy Wu Dominick shares her story at Christianity Today about telling her husband that she had feelings for another man: Looking back, it’s not surprising it happened. I was in the midst of a major identity shift that was changing the […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics

migration and American identity - Doctors Without Boredom

Luma Simms has two very interesting pieces interacting with Reihan Salam’s new book Melting Pot or Civil War? One is at Public Discourse and the other is at Law and Liberty: From the first piece: Immigration, work migration, the flight […]