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July 2018

July 09, 2018

Do Children Matter?

Today I recommend to you a book for new parents, and maybe not so new...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

My Latest Appearance on The Chris Craft Show

For those folks who enjoy podcasts, allow me to recommend The Chris Craft Show. Of...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

How Big Is Too Big?

In the original Twilight Zone there is an episode entitled, The Last Night of a...

March 2018

March 14, 2018

The Family that Votes Together Stays Together

Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton often says more than she means to say. Such was the...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

The Dark Satanic Mills of Public Education Have Got to Go

I don't hate public schools because I am a Christian, I am a Christian, in...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

Sooner or Later You Run Out of Other People’s Kids

If you turn children into expensive hobbies don’t be surprised when people stop having them.

November 2017

November 16, 2017

Returning the Gift

Idolatry is making too much of a good thing. And this is what makes it...

November 04, 2017

Give the Gift of “Eucatastrophe” this Christmas!

Like so many other people, the works of J. R. R. Tolkien have stirred me...

July 2017

July 14, 2017

How to Make Sure Your Highly Educated Daughter Doesn’t Have to Freeze Her Eggs

You may not like my advice. But if you have better advice, there are a...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

How do you “make a culture”?

A few years back there was a flash of enthusiasm among people who read books...

June 16, 2017

How Social Security Feeds on Children and Itself

I've been working my way through a marvelous book by my friend Allan C. Carlson...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Against the Recreational Household, Part 4: Signs of Hope

Here I am again with another ramble. This is the fourth in what I hope...

May 25, 2017

Against the Recreational Household, Part 3: What Happened?

Here I am again, with you another of my rambles. This is the third...

May 22, 2017

Against the Recreational Household: Part 2, Cult as Cultivation

Throughout the world, in both the East and the West, households were once religious institutions....

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Liberalism & the Curse of Debt-Free Living

Liberalism is only honest when men spontaneously generate. Any other way of coming into being...

April 06, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Infant Baptism

Largely it is axiomatic among libertarians that human institutions are fictions and only individuals are...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

Bombadil at Home

When it comes to what the Bible means by taking dominion Tom Bombadil comes to...

March 02, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Family as Image of the Covenant

We live in a world where the givens of family life no longer can be...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Priestly Fatherhood

Christian family-based religious life is so dissimilar to the practices of biblical patriarchs there are...

February 16, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Corporate Personality

I have long suspected that the real reason American evangelicals are so ignorant about the...

February 07, 2017

Deconstructing Feminized Fatherhood

We must live our lives in a larger structure of meaning than we can build...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Family that Stays Together Can Pray Together

That little reversal in the title of this post is intended to shake you out...

January 26, 2017

Feminism, the Women’s March, and Aesthetics

The other day I stumbled across a post by a fellow Patheos blogger entitled, The...

January 10, 2017

Why I Don’t Hit Girls

I have a little sister, and like many children who grow frustrated with tagalong siblings,...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

Families: No Room in the Church-Inn

I just finished reading a book that I've been commissioned to review for Touchstone Magazine....

November 2016

November 12, 2016

Jack, the Giant, and the Indigestible Bean

A modern fable about love and work. by C. R. Wiley There were giants in...

November 03, 2016

Children and Household Religion

Years ago a Haitian pastor asked me, "Why do white people hate children?" When I...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Put Your Kids to Work, Go Ahead, They’ll Thank You for It

Some people apparently believe that children are better off when they're useless. I got a...

October 20, 2016

What ARE Children For?

I continue my reflections on the New Testament household codes today with a subject you...