My heart is broken for women who are abused in virtually every country in the world. I get angry, angry at sexist men and sexist cultures for their abuse. (For example, we recently published a heart-wrenching story Horrors of La Pampa: Does Anybody Care?) The global war against women is
Finally a public official is standing up and speaking common sense about children and gender. Cobb County State (Georgia) Representative Ginny Ehrhart is writing legislation “to protect children from having irreversible procedures done when they are young.” So writes Maya T. Prabhu in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The bill is entitled
Home schooling is a movement whose time has come. Our state-run educational system indoctrinates without educating. As a result, a growing number of families, globally, are opting out of state schools for home schooling, or better put, home education. Noah Webster, the father of modern education and the compiler of
The following recent post from John Stonestreet at BreakPoint is worthy of reproducing here for readers of this blog. Read it and reap! ~ While the loudest voices in our culture continue to insist that men and women are interchangeable, science is offering more evidence than ever that the two
We all have heard about the importance of the father’s presence in the home, about the horrible consequences when husbands and fathers go AWOL. The above graphic from fathers.com says it all. A home without a father averages about four times the poverty rate of a two-parent household. Levels of
Truth, beauty and goodness are the hallmarks of the culture of the kingdom of God. These are what I call the cultural trinity. Just as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are separate persons yet one God, so truth, beauty and goodness are not the same, but they cannot be
A biography of Chuck Colson includes his transparent testimony of his deep love and commitment to his second wife, Patricia Hughes, for nearly half a century. He also testifies to the destructive nature of his divorce from his first wife, Nancy Billings, and its impact on their three children. He acknowledges that
As we continue our series on how the Mennonites transformed a wasteland into a garden, we come to their 8th principle of development – Education. Unlike health care, which was a disaster because it was a second thought, education was at the forefront of their minds. Many of the colonies were
Many women who decide to leave the workforce and become a stay at home mom struggle with their sense of dignity. Society affirms women who work outside the home, but not those dear souls who want to make a home, who have a desire to nurture their children “full-time.” In
Original photo all4desktop.com We live in a new era of human history, the age of the antimaternal. From the beginning of time, people have understood that it was normal, natural … yes, even beautiful, to have children. Not anymore. The sexist’s war against women has been replaced with the modern
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