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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: Family
Dualism: The Hidden Effect of Secular Education on Christian Children
Dualism, not atheism, may be the bigger threat to Christian students in the public school classroom. Many people seem to think that, while instruction based in any organized religion is unacceptable indoctrination, the precepts of materialist atheism (the worldview of … Continue reading
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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There is No True Social Justice Without Personal Relationship
In his book, The Tragedy of American Compassion, Marvin Olasky suggests seven marks of compassion. Taken together these add powerfully to our view and practice of biblical social justice. Social Justice and Affiliation The first mark is affiliation, defined by … Continue reading
WHO AM I to Judge Pole Dancing Classes for Children?
Is beauty really “in the eye of the beholder”? We are repeatedly assured that there is no objective standard by which to judge art. Art is a “level playing field,” they tell us. Value, like taste, is culturally and individually … 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
Why The Nation Needs the Family
by Dwight Vogt Here in the US it’s an election year and we’re constantly being reminded that the big issues are the economy (i.e. the health of business) and the role of government. Recently, a colleague shared a comment he … Continue reading
Abuse a Dog and Serve Two Years; Murder a Newborn and Do Community Service
When I read the news item excerpted below, I thought of one of the key themes in Darrow’s forthcoming book, i.e. that the ethos of a society is determined by its worship. (In the book, Darrow points out the link … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, ETW, Family, Morality
Tagged abortion, Alberta court ruling on infanticide, animal abuse, infanticide, Katrina Effert, Michael Vick, Roe V Wade
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A Child’s Imagination: Seedbed for Good or for Ill, Truth or Lies, Life or Death
Dr. Elizabeth Youmans, president and CEO of Chrysalis International and one of DNA’s ideas shapers, travels the world in her efforts to help churches effectively disciple children and youth. We are happy to offer the following excerpt from Dr. Youmans’s recent newsletter. … Continue reading
Just Because They’re Girls: Evil Worse than the Slave Trade & the Holocaust
In a dark dungeon I stood with a broken heart on centuries-old dry excrement. I was visiting the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, a transshipping point for African captives in the British Atlantic slave trade. In each dungeon, hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Women, Worldview
Tagged abortion, biblical worldview, Community, Culture, Family, gendercide, holocaust, misogyny, Pro-Life, sex trafficking, sex-selective abortion, slave trade, slavery, women
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Economic Freedom: What Does it Look Like on the Street?
Chris Wassell recently sent me the brief video below. I thought well worth passing on to our readers. The video shows the contrast between countries with the greatest economic freedom and those with the least. It shows very clearly how true … Continue reading
