I asked my friend, the poet,how she was getting by.“Work and tears,”came her reply. “And listening,” she added,“in silence, to be sure.I listen closernow than before. It is a lot like reading,a thing I loved to do . . .What book felt likefirst love to you?” “It was in French,” I . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul Beston muses on the joys of watching his daughter grow up. Continue Reading »
It is no use letting kids do whatever they desire unless you have first educated their desire. Continue Reading »
A survey administered by California schools makes children disclose their sexual behavior and marginalizes mom and dad. Continue Reading »
With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray. Continue Reading »
Children are not exposed to enough violence. Yes, I know the grim statistics, how a child who enters middle school has already witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 other violent acts on TV. As he and his friends enter adolescence, they take up first-person shooter video games. In college, he becomes . . . . Continue Reading »
Mostly, I grew up a Jew among other Jews. So how had Jesus entered my imagination? How had he come to occupy its core? It took an effort of memory, but I reached back to the first time I had truly noticed him. It had happened on a Christmas Eve. Continue Reading »
The film is in large part about the failures and sins of American church culture—but you can also tell that Cone is honoring the place and community that shaped him. Continue Reading »
An article in The Guardian inadvertently indicates that the problems of our current political culture are deeply embedded in patterns of modern parenting. Continue Reading »
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