I have a new post at her.meneutics, “How Many Kids Should We Have?” written in response to the recent TIME cover article about only children. It begins:  “One and Done,” Lauren Sandler’s Time cover story this week, offers a series of reasons why many parents in the West are choosing to have only one child. First, the…

I wrote a short post last week about spiritual deserts (“When God Feels Far Away“). Over the weekend, a stream of comments came in, from people sharing experiences of pain, suffering, joy, answered prayer, and questions for God. People wrote about losing their jobs, battling cancer, a child using drugs, family issues, physical disabilities, depression,…

(I wrote this last Friday but forgot to publish it. Oops!) Christianity Today’s cover article on adoption, “Abba Changes Everything” is a powerful personal testimony of adoption that links the experience of adopting a child to the theological significance of God’s adoption of us as sons and daughters.  I’d also like to recommend, in a…

Penny was six months old. I was reading Time Magazine, and there was an article about Carolyn Bergeron and Sujeet Desai, two adults with Down syndrome getting married. I frowned. For one thing, I didn’t like the idea of Penny, and people like Penny, being so different that their marriages would make the national news. But…

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