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Tiffany | September 5, 2010
At church on Sunday morning, one of our elders, while giving his sermon, asked if there were any little children who would like to come up to the front of the church and tell everyone something they know about God. Getting up in front of our large church and speaking would be scary enough as [...]
Jennifer McBride | September 3, 2010
Here is a great article with some excellent and insightful commentary on the Duggar family: As we spoke to the 3 of them, one word kept jumping out at me: Freedom. These girls were experiencing freedom teenagers rarely taste. Completely free to be themselves. The exact opposite of the words so often used by media folk [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 14, 2010
Thank you to Ann over at Holy Experience for recommending this piece: Here’s a Twilight Zone-type premise for you. What if surgeons never got to work on humans, they were instead just endlessly in training, cutting up cadavers? What if the same went for all adults – we only got to practice at simulated versions [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 13, 2010
From Carolyn Moynihan over at Mercatornet: Evidence that girls are reaching puberty as early as seven years of age is in the news this week following the publication of an article in the journal Paediatrics. It is a topic that has been debated for decades…. Experts are not certain about the factors driving the trend, [...]
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 [...]
bravelass | August 11, 2010
The call of the water is the stuff of legend and romance. From Jimmy Buffet to the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner to the book of Job, it haunts our poetry, our myths and our imaginations. When we stand at the place where the waters meet the dry land, our gaze is ever out to [...]
Luci McLeod | July 21, 2010
From Mercatornet comes a useful short piece discussing a new study by Debbie S. Barrington, “The Increasing Protection of Marriage on Infant Low Birth Weight Across Two Generations of African American Women,” 31 Journal of Family Issues 1041 (2010). The study abstract states: An increasing protection of marriage on infant LBW across the two generations [...]
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 [...]
Jamie V Marino | July 7, 2010
It’s funny how we have to go to the UK to read the truth about the abortion breast cancer link. You won’t find this information in the NY Times. Read the article over here.
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 | 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 [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 28, 2010
Marketplace recently ran a week-long series on China’s one-child policy, covering its history, the life of only children, parental expectations, exceptions to the rule, and the future economic repercussions of the policy. This is well worth listening to (and it’s a good idea to read the accompanying interviews and articles as well). In short, the [...]
Jamie V Marino | June 28, 2010
Sticky fingers dirty faces always running competitive races Cars and tractors, blocks and boats adventurous feats and mud-stained coats Riding bikes and trikes down bumpy roads in search of bugs and frogs and toads Guns and swords and broken britches bloodied knees and endearing kisses Rough and tough yet caring and loving exploring and conquering, [...]
