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Footings for Children is a curriculum for those who teach children in after-school clubs, Sunday schools, camps, and even home devotionals. It is designed to be adapted and applied in any cultural context, including settings where teaching aids and tools are limited.
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Category Archives: Population
Why Christian Couples Should Have Children
Some time back I was talking to a young man who had married about a year earlier. The conversation turned to children and he remarked that they weren’t sure they were going to have kids. I gently reminded him that … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Mandate, Culture, Family, Population
Tagged children, Culture, marriage, population
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Is it Immoral to Have Children?
“If we all saw the harm we were doing by having children and put a stop to it, within a century or so the world’s population would drop to zero.” So writes Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker, arguing in … Continue reading
A Look at China’s Ghosts: The One-Child Policy Captured on Canvas
We have written many times in this blog about gendercide – the war against females and the impact on societies. We have also written on the need for artists to speak prophetically to culture. Here is a story that combines … Continue reading
Abortion’s Bitter Legacy
A few weeks ago, I posted “On My Birth There Was No Singing,” exposing gendercide in India. Now Jonathan V. Last, senior writer at the Weekly Standard, writes a review of Mara Hvistendahl’s book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of … Continue reading
Posted in Morality, Population, Women
Tagged abortion, gendercide, Mara Hvistendahl, sex-selective abortion, Unnatural Selection
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On My Birth There Was No Singing: Gendercide in India
In a recent Associated Press article, Despite Economic Growth, India Lets Its Girls Die, Muneeza Naqvi tells the story of how Indian society allows baby girls to die from neglect and starvation. Despite laws against such things as sex-selective abortions … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Current events, Population, Women, Worldview
Tagged abortion, female infanticide, gendercide, Hinduism, India, Sati
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Exploding the Myth of Overpopulation
Last Wednesday, James J. Lee’s concern about overpopulation cost him his life. Police snipers killed him to save the lives of three hostages he was holding. He was demanding that the Discovery Channel air messages “curbing the planet’s population growth, finding … Continue reading
Posted in ETW, Population
Tagged abortion, children, Discovery Channel, Family, James J. Lee, overpopulation
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