May 29, 2015
May 14, 2015
How Capitalism Humanized the Family
Capitalism is routinely blamed for rampant materialism and consumerism, accused of setting society’s sights only on material needs and wants, and living little time, attention, or energy for much else. But what, if not basic food, shelter, and survival, was humanity so preoccupied with before the Industrial Revolution? Continue Reading...
May 08, 2015
Herman Bavinck on the Glory of Motherhood
May 08, 2015
Motherhood: The World’s Toughest Job?
May 07, 2015
China Attempts to End Its War on Baby Girls
If you were asked to name the technologies whose proliferation inadvertently threatens the human race, what would you include? Landmines? Assault rifles? Nuclear warheads?
Add this one to your list: the sonogram machine. Continue Reading...
May 04, 2015
Foster Care Rules Conflict With Religious Freedom
March 20, 2015
Bring Back Childhood Chores: How Hard Work Cultivates Character
February 24, 2015
Worldwide Flight From Family Is Killing Us
February 13, 2015
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the economy of love
On August 12, 1943, months after having been arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned, the Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his young fiancée Maria von Wedemeyer:
When I consider the state of the world, the total obscurity enshrouding our personal destiny, and my present imprisonment, our union—if it wasn’t frivolity, which it certainly wasn’t—can only be a token of God’s grace and goodness, which summon us to believe in him. Continue Reading...
January 20, 2015