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Jennie Chancey | August 23, 2011
From Mariette Ulrich at Mercatornet: When I saw ads for the recently released Friends with Benefits, I thought I was experiencing déjà vu. Wasn’t that film released last year? Why no, the movie I had in mind was different, and it was titled No Strings Attached. Well, not entirely different; same frivolous treatment of self-centred [...]
Tiana Krenz | August 23, 2011
From The Globe and Mail: Here’s a recent Danish headline: “Plans to make Denmark a Down syndrome-free perfect society.” The Danes want to promote aborting fetuses with Down syndrome, so their society will be free of such people around 2030. One bioethicist describes it as a “fantastic achievement.” At least the Danes are raising this [...]
Jennifer McBride | August 18, 2011
Join us over at Noble Womanhood as we focus our attention on home education for the rest of August! We’ll be posting our favorite articles on Biblical, relaxed and family friendly methods, special sales, and tips on homeschooling free and frugally! Click here to hop on over!
Mrs. Wayne Hunter | August 16, 2011
There is a movement in America called Parental Rights (http://www.parentalrights.org) that seeks to add an amendment to our nation’s Constitution that explicitly protects the right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children. The purpose of this article isn’t to argue points for this amendment, but to examine what rights parents have – all parents [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 16, 2011
From a great piece over on Mercatornet: In their zeal to preserve the planet from the scourge of babies, these activists overlook the fact that humans are problem solvers and producers as well as consumers. They forget that the solution to poverty is not to eradicate poor people, but to use human creativity, innovation and [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 16, 2011
Kelly Crawford posted this excellent piece over at Raising Homemakers: I find it downright heartbreaking that we have cultivated a whole generation of parents who don’t even enjoy their own children, to the degree they are glad for them to spend a large portion of the day somewhere else. One of the reasons for not [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 13, 2011
This chilling piece appeared in this week’s New York Times Magazine. Having recently re-read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, I could only shudder at the clear parallels. We have truly lost our moorings when “reducing” a pregnancy (by aborting one child) can be treated as plain old “consumerism”: As Jenny lay on the obstetrician’s examination [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 13, 2011
Robert W. Patterson of The Family in America has a fantastic, thought-provoking article up about how we cannot grow the economy without restoring marriage and the family first. Families produce wealth and grow nations. [W]hat does it mean to “grow” the economy? The growth that the typical American family wants to see is the kind [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 13, 2011
Jill Stanek has an excellent post up from earlier this year about how women are penalized/criticized more for unwed pregnancy than men — and how that’s (ironically) a clear result of the sexual “freedom” pushed on women since the 1960s by the feminist movement: [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach] said that, today, there is a broken code [...]
Stacy McDonald | August 12, 2011
I was contemplating recently why I don’t care for the term “abuser.” It’s certainly an accurate description at times. I wondered if perhaps it was the overuse of the word that bothered me; and I think that is definitely part of it. However, I think I mostly flinch at the word because we are all [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 12, 2011
A surprising range of people (from British Prime Minister David Cameron to reporters and social commentators) are all pointing at the same fundamental problems in the wake of the riots in the UK–the loss of foundational morality and self-restraint, the breakdown of the family, and fatherlessness. Here are several key reads, which have implications for [...]
Mrs. Eva H. | August 11, 2011
I was having a bad day. You know the type of day: the children are getting into trouble, my back hurt, whatever I tidied was undone within three seconds flat, my youngest was teething, and I had not had nearly enough sleep in the last week. All that on top of a family situation that [...]
Tiana Krenz | August 11, 2011
“Choosing Blessing”, from R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Blog: Nothing above argues that any of the choices above are in themselves sins. They may be, but that argument is not being made. Nothing in fact argues that there aren’t people whose experience is different. Nothing above suggests that any of the choices above are matters of eternal life [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 11, 2011
We love this beautiful post by Renee Ellison on marriage: A good marriage is a waltz, not a courtroom. The object is not to win, but to dance. Life is simply too short to waste it fighting with your mate. Stuffing “it” isn’t an answer, either; you’ll just explode later. Both fighting and stuffing produce [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 11, 2011
Trina Holden has a wonderful “confession” up at Passionate Homemaking: My addiction was out of hand. Though I knew it was unhealthy, I indulged multiple times a day, couldn’t go 24 hours without withdrawal symptoms, and constantly made excuses for my habit. My vice? Social Media. This tool – wonderful for networking, business, and ministry [...]
