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All God’s Children

Children in our churches offer a witness for adults: they show us who we are in God’s eyes.

Problematizing Pro-Natalism

The uncritical adoption of the wider non-Christian secular culture’s sexual ethic has resulted in devaluing childbearing, childrearing, and the spheres in which these occur.

Isaiah 9 and the Baby at the Center

"For a child has been born for us, a son given to us." Pauline Buisch asks, why highlight the king’s infancy? Why would an oracle about a coming Davidic king feature language of birth and sonship? Why, as it were, is a baby at the center?

Faith, Family, and the Village

I was raised a Mennonite, an old Reformation church rooted in certain European traditions. My parents, likewise, were both brought up  in the Church,...

On Natality

This week Covenant will host a series of essays that address a cluster of realities: a drastically falling global birthrate; the reduction in the...

Children, Hope, and Our Declining Churches

This review discusses suicide. P.D. James’s dystopian novel, The Children of Men, describes an unnerving world in which humanity suddenly and collectively loses the ability...

Children and the Public Interconnectedness of Marriage

It is the teaching of the church over centuries that marriage is a union of a man and a woman, a union to extend...

Quality of Love

When I became pregnant, I learned that veteran parents talk to parents-to-be almost exclusively in clichés: “Sleep while you can”; “Your life is about...

Religious Parenting: Is There A Meaningful Difference?

By David Ney Noted American sociologist Christian Smith teamed up with two of his doctoral students, Bridget Ritz and Michael Rotolo, to investigate how American...

Schools Leaders Focus on Keeping Students Safe

Mass shooting events take an enormous emotional toll on both the adults and the students in all schools

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