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On begetting a son

Begetting is baked into our nature. It is part of the goodness of the created order: to procreate is to partake in the blessing of God (Gen. 1:28).

Children without mothers and fathers, without hope of adoption

The province of Ontario’s proposed Bill 28, the “All Families are Equal Act," proposes removing the terms "mother," "father," and "adoptive" from birth certificates.

Rebuilding a culture of teaching and learning

In the early church, instruction of the mind and the conversion of the heart were not alternatives, but two sides of the same coin.

Will our children have faith? John Westerhoff’s question after 40 years

Thousands of seminarians have read John H. Westerhoff III’s Will Our Children Have Faith? and it has guided countless parishes and denominational offices in their Christian education programs.

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: The gold standard in children’s education

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd exhibits confidence in the gifts God has given the Church, and calls the whole child to encounter God.

Ever crucified

The other day my son said to my wife, “Talk about Jesus.”

U.K. Child Poverty Grows

The Children’s Society has expressed alarm that child poverty in the United Kingdom is up by nearly 30 percent.

Consider your children, how they grow

What price do we really pay for our omni-technologized lives, and will our kids foot the bill?

New child, new dissertation, new holiness?

I began working on my dissertation proposal about two weeks before my daughter’s birth. My dissertation is now one chapter old and my daughter is seven months.

Suffer the little children

Maybe having children is a goad to holiness because it shows us just how little progress we actually make in holiness.

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