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Jennie Chancey | August 12, 2010
Our good friend Candice Watters has some excellent things to say in response to the argument that daycare is actually good for mothers and children: Last Sunday, after eating scrambled eggs and donuts for brunch, we shifted to the living room for coffee and conversation with our guests, a young newly married couple in the [...]
Jamie V Marino | August 12, 2010
Women used to know the importance of being in the home. They realized the gravity of their roles of being a wife and mom and knew that abdicating their roles would most certainly not be good for the family. I personally know that I could not be the wife and mom that the Lord has [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 29, 2010
Hang on to your hats (and prepare to sit down with a cup of tea for a long read). This is the best piece I have ever read on marriage in our post-modern times. It is a tour de force and should be required reading for anyone concerned about the state of relationships between men [...]
Luci McLeod | July 19, 2010
On Babble.com, one author offered a surprisingly honest, heartfelt examination of the choices she made to delay motherhood. She points out the numerous personal and social consequences of delaying marriage and childbearing. Certainly, God’s timing is perfect in all things. However, it’s sobering to consider just how much we’ve sacrificed to conform to our modern [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 19, 2010
‘They couldn’t believe it when I told them I have chosen to be a full-time mother,’ says the 27-year-old, who lives in South-West London with her husband Richard, 30, a teacher, and her children George, four, and Verity, two. ‘I could tell from their reaction that they couldn’t help assuming I must be bored stiff [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 4, 2010
From Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet: Nearly one in five American women ends her childbearing years without having borne a child, compared with one in ten in the 1970s, the Pew Research Centre reports. Practically the only group of women less likely to be childless now compared with about two decades ago are those with advanced [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 2, 2010
An article that appears in the June 30, 2010 edition of The Times [London] represents a moral earthquake that resets an entire issue — and that issue is abortion. This chilling essay is hard to read, but impossible to ignore. To read it is to feel the moral ground shift under your feet. In “Yes, [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 2, 2010
From the folks at Mercatornet: Further to an earlier post on delayed adulthood, USA Today recently ran a report headed “Dating for a decade?” on how young adults put off the commitment of marriage for years, even though they have “paired off” and typically live together. Nobody seems very upset about it….. Fear of commitment [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 2, 2010
Sarah Mae at Like a Warm Cup of Coffee has started up a fantastic series dealing with several hot-button issues and common myths about biblical womanhood, family, children, etc. Here are some of the topics she has set to tackle (with the help of guest writers): Unique callings in Christ Putting women in a box/dictating [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 30, 2010
NEW YORK, June 29 /Christian Newswire/ — Irish pharmacist and pro-life leader Patrick McCrystal is in New York City this week for the U.S. launch of his second book, which deals with the devastating effect contraception has on marriages and the culture as a whole. McCrystal’s book comes on the heels of Nancy Gibb’s recent [...]
Tiffany | June 26, 2010
When I attended a chapel during my Christian university’s week of gender reconciliation chapels, I found that many of the women on the panel had begun to consider the question of whether or not they experience oppression as women in their daily lives. One woman’s comment was particularly intriguing. She said, “Before coming to this [...]
Carmon Friedrich | June 19, 2010
The nomad and the anarchist accuse the domestic ideal of being merely timid and prim. But this is not because they themselves are bolder or more vigorous, but simply because they do not know it well enough to know how bold and vigorous it is. –G.K. Chesterton Have you ever sat too long in the [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 13, 2010
Our good friend Doug Phillips over at Vision Forum just posted this commentary (the blockquote at the top is what he’s responding to): There are some disabled infants born with conditions so severe that doctors don’t really try to keep them alive. They allow them to die essentially through benign neglect. But that can be [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 7, 2010
We love reading Jill Stanek. She has defended the sanctity of life for years and really knows her stuff. Here’s a column she wrote for Saturday’s “The Pill Kills” protest: Today is the American Life League’s (ALL) third annual The Pill Kills Day, which focuses on the various harmful effects of the birth control pill. [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 5, 2010
From Mercatornet: While most Europeans worry their heads off about what is happening to the euro and the economy, certain members of the European political bureaucracy are getting on with more important things. Like drafting long resolutions about how to combat gender stereotypes in the media and having even longer meetings to get their ideas [...]
