Loving Your Closest Neighbor
My friends talk a lot these days about how to spend more time with others in person. We sincerely wish we could be more present with the people we care about most. And we all acknowledge that our screens get…
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The Kansas City Chief’s Kicker and More Reflections on Motherhood
The hullabaloo concerning Harrison Butker’s (an NFL kicker of repute) defense of the glory of motherhood has caught my attention. In a single speech Butker has become the face of traditionalist home-and-family Christianity and a new punching bag for conscience-stricken…
How Should We View Our Children?
I cannot recall how many times I met people who honestly told me that they did not want to have children because children would just interfere with their lives. They viewed children as a burden, rather than a blessing. In…
In Defense of Patriarchy
Last week I noticed that Ryan Gosling was nominated for an Oscar for playing Ken alongside Margot Robbie’s Barbie in last summer’s hit by the same name. Robbie, incidentally, was not so nominated. I won’t watch the film, but I…
Parents, Discipline Your Little Children
Perhaps there was a time when parents generally over-disciplined. Today too we must believe that “correcting [children] unduly” is a sin against the fifth commandment. [i] But the more common modern problem seems to be insufficient discipline. Couple our cultural moment…
Ultrasounds and Sonograms Save Babies’ Lives—A Call to Support Pregnancy Care Clinics
Editor’s Note: Pregnancy care clinics in San Diego County—the author’s residence, have recently been under serious attack to be shut down. Please see the footnote below about today’s December 5 meeting with San Diego County Supervisors and how to influence…
Really, Mr. French? I Think Not
I woke up this morning to David French’s New York Times Opinion article.[1] To be honest, it left a bad after taste. It wasn’t that everything he said was either wrong or inflammatory, it wasn’t. In fact, there were some…
The Patriarchy Movement: Five Areas of Grave Concern
The church is an environment of extremes. The trouble with extremes is that they always contain a seed of truth, making them look and sound plausible to the careless bystander. By virtue of this fact, the church is also often…
Bringing Our Children to Jesus
One of the most important things we will do at Second Presbyterian Church is disciple our children to a living, personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We live in a society that assumes that when children grow up they…
2008: A Year for Family Worship
Returning to our editor’s theme for the start of this year, I would make another suggestion for “the most important issue facing the church in 2008?” Having already suggested a renewed passion for world missions and the support of the growing…