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What marriage most needs

What marriage most needs

Marriage |  “While we were still weak, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. … [W]hile we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Those verses (Romans…

Too fundamental to fail

Too fundamental to fail

Parenting |  The Center for the Next Generation is promoting an effort on behalf of America’s children, Too Small to Fail. The group reports that Ann Romney’s horse…

Don Feder

A failure to form families contributes to lower U.S. birthrate

Family |  U.S. births are at their lowest since the 1920s, according to a study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. According to Don Feder, communications…

A page from the Toys R Us catalog in Sweden

A truck for Trisha and a dolly for Donald

Culture |  Christmas shopping for the kids just got a whole lot more complicated for parents in Sweden, where Top-Toy Group, a licensee of the Toys R Us brand, decided…

Awareness or enticement?

Awareness or enticement?

Parenting |  Last week I made the mistake of Facebooking my surprise at learning that the kindergartners at the elementary school across the street were participating in…

Raising super-Christians

Raising super-Christians

Parenting |  After teaching college for a few years I’ve realized two things: (1) how young adults sincerely want to make their parents proud, and (2) how parents…

Salvatore Cordileone at his installation service

Signs and Wonders 10.05

Newsworthy |  Stay tuned. A strange drama unfolded in San Francisco this week. The Roman Catholic Church installed a new archbishop, Salvatore Cordileone, who has been…

The mother, the father, and the law

The mother, the father, and the law

Family |  In 1915, pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith finished a 45-minute movie he called The Mother and the Law , a story of young love and overreaching civil power. A boy…

Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg works with the laser device that helps prepare embryos for implantation
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Boy crazy

Science |  The United States is a new mecca for parents who choose their baby's sex

Let the little children struggle

Let the little children struggle

Parenting |  Do you have a child who is behind in school, who can’t seem to get his homework completed on time, who hates to do math? Have you ever been tempted to come…

When parents 'fail'

When parents 'fail'

Family |  Like in the nightmare, his mother found him in his bedroom, he whom she bore in her stretched-out body for most of a year. Dead and shattered, just months…

A mother's pursuit of happiness

A mother's pursuit of happiness

Family |  I remember the smell of my mother's first briefcase. She carried it during my earliest years, the years from which I can recall smells most deeply. But my…

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