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Confessions of a Child-free Christian

If there's one thing I've come to find out in my short time as a Christian, it's that when you deviate from the norm, someone is going to label you as some sort of a heretic. My choice to be child-free is no different in…
Teenagers in a Conflicted World

When you turn 16 something changes inside of you. For some it happens earlier, but for me it was 16; suddenly, you become this super-monster: you become the teenager. Everything your parents say suddenly sounds like the…
Children's Television: Then and Now

By Matt at The Church of No People I think there’s some kind of movie-related awards ceremony coming up so0n. Anne Hathaway and James Franco are hosting, which is exactly why I won’t be watching. Not that w…
Watch Your Language, the Children are Listening

By Lauren at the Mockingbird Blog This post isn't about what you think it might be ... My husband shared with me the following excerpt from a post from a blog we like to read, "Free-Range Kids" authored by Lenore Sk…
In China: Honor Thy Father And Mother -- Or Else

By Dave at The Mockingbird Blog As reported in Saturday's NY Times, a characteristically are-they-serious take on the 5th Commandment out of Beijing. Clearly ministry officials aren't reading much Gerhard Forde (ht B…
How Do You Raise a Child with Values in a Valueless World?

A great insightful post by my husband Dean: All day today I have been pondering the struggles my wife and I will soon be facing as our young, little man begins to get out of the house and explore this world God has pl…
Loving My Future Family

By Sharon at SheWorships For those of you who have been reading my blog for awhile, you know that my husband and I have practiced Natural Family Planning (NFP) ever since we got married. I’ve written a number of…
Words About Spanking

By Matthew at Jesus Needs New PR, from My Daddy Blog Jessica and I don’t spank Elias. And that was a big deal for me. Raised Baptist, “spanking up” a kid in the way he/she should go was the only way to…
To Santa or Not to Santa

By Sharon at SheWorships Last year I wrote a post that opened the debate about whether or not to tell your kids about Santa Claus. The topic was actually just a minor part of the post itself, but in that short paragraph…
The Christmas Story

By David Miller … as told by the children of St Paul’s Church.