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May 2019

May 31, 2019

The Women of Proverbs & the Bible’s Family Dramas

The estimable Peter Leithart has written a must-read piece in First Things entitled Heroic Domesticity. It begins...

May 16, 2017

Treating pets like children

Young adults are not having children, much. But they are having pets in great number....

December 2015

December 21, 2015

Less than half of American children live with both parents

There are lots of disturbing statistics that get thrown out by every latest study. Phil...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

The happiest parents have four or more kids

An Australian family has found that the happiest parents are those with four or more...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

How Christianity humanized children

One of the many cultural influences of Christianity, observes Eric Metaxas, discussing a book on...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Cranach’s “Christ Blessing the Children”

One of my favorite Cranach paintings is "Christ Blessing the Children." See a discussion after...

February 2014

February 10, 2014

Does having kids make you less happy?

Raising kids is hard, stressful, and exhausting. A new book goes so far as to...

October 2013

October 02, 2013

Children as casualties of the sexual revolution

"In contemporary America," says Anthony Esolen, "condemnation of pedophilia rests on sentiment and not on...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

Another consequence of China’s one-child policy

China may be reconsidering its one-child policy, with its forced abortions and vast array of...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

Being children of God

Last Sunday, Easter 3, our pastor preached on the appearance of the resurrected Jesus to...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

The state as our therapist

Schools are doing their part against guns by punishing children for playing. George Will recounts...

January 2013

January 10, 2013

The crimes of children

A six-year-old was suspended from the first grade in a D.C. suburb for pointing his...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Let the children vote

Our politics are polarizing, to the point that, at least in Washington, D. C., little...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

The children’s conservative revolution

First lady Michelle Obama has joined with food activists to push through changes in school...

September 14, 2012

The faith of infants

A key Lutheran teaching is that infants can have faith. This is why Lutherans see...

July 2012

July 09, 2012

Children as cure for the common cold

More counter-intuitive mysterious health findings: A new study says that parents are less apt to...

May 2012

May 17, 2012

How fast they grow

This is Natalie, whose parents took a picture of her every day of her life,...

September 2011

September 07, 2011

The greatest in the kingdom of Heaven

More great preaching from our pastor, Rev. Douthwaite, on the text Matthew 18:1-20. Read it...

September 02, 2011

Party our way into extinction!

People who oppose abortion like to call themselves "pro-life." Proponents of abortion object to that term,...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

Church camp for atheists

Atheists are seemingly doing everything they can to organize themselves into a religion. Apparently they...

July 11, 2011

Why do believers have more children?

Sociologist Peter Berger (an ELCA Lutheran), after surveying the overwhelming data that religious people have...