What Do We Miss in the Fatherlessness Conversation?
The ‘fatherlessness crisis’ label is overwhelmingly discussed as an exclusively Black and minority communities’ issue. Why?
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Issue 10
To Have and to Hold, to Love and to Care — for Each Other and the World
Marriage continues to be an essential component of God’s plan for humanity. Like the physical and spiritual laws that govern our world — such as gravity, sowing and reaping — marriage is part of the created order and one of the conduits through which God accomplishes his work in the world
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It’s About the Children
How churches are finding new ways to support foster care.
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What Does It Profit to Gain Valinor and Lose Your Soul?
The ends don’t justify the ends, in Amazon’s ‘Rings of Power’ or in life.
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Could Focusing on Marriage and Family at Church Actually Hurt Discipleship?
I answer this question from the perspective of a married woman who has been married for more than 25 years. In many ways, I have an enviable family. But I also write from the perspective of a woman who has found it difficult to actually be a disciple in the church. Too often, when a woman
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Mother and Brothers
Not only did many of today’s adults grow up in broken families, but an increasing number are dramatically delaying starting a family or avoiding it altogether. Where do they fit into the life of the church?
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What Do You Do When Your Business Provides Good Jobs — But May Enable Vladimir Putin?
We asked a man with decades of business experience in Russia and the Ukraine.
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Good News for Sons: Life Is Hard
How can we help our kids enjoy adolescence while intentionally moving beyond it? One book written on this that I’ve read multiple times is Adam’s Return by Richard Rohr. Rohr writes about five rules of manhood, five definitive things that have been poured into men in almost every other culture to help shape them and
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Not Good News: The World Is Less Economically Free
The most recent Economic Freedom of the World Report, published by the Fraser Institute, numbers are in, and the news isn’t good. Global economic freedom around the world has declined from a global overall average score of 7.0 to 6.84. The economists who develop the research claim that this wipes out about 10 years of
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