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