Whatever happened to being seen but not heard? Diana West asks that question in a recent essay, noting that there has been a massive shift in Western culture away from adult authority and toward the "wise child." All around us are signs that authorit ...
Do children need fathers? Fascinating research on that question is reported by Shirley S. Wang of The Wall Street Journal. Anna Katherina Braun, a German biologist, has been working with colleagues to understand the biological impact of single parent ...
Are young men concerned about missions? The call to the mission field is being answered by the Church, but the majority of people answering that call are women. Where are the young men? The gospel calls people into the Church to be fed by the bles ...
What makes a man a man? What makes him happy and fulfilled in this life? Maureen Dowd has written recently on the trends of happiness amongst women, and her story raises interesting questions about what makes men feel happy and fulfilled. On today ...
America's long war over abortion has classically been defined as a struggle between competing rights -- depicted as the right of a woman to have an abortion versus the right of an unborn child to the protection of life. This long-familiar framing of ...
The Christian church has experienced a massive wave of change over the last thirty years, and the emergence of women in some pulpits is perhaps the most visible sign of that change. Why would Southern Baptists resist this trend? The easiest co ...
America's parents are about to discover that the culture war is a lot closer than they thought. The ruling of the New Jersey Supreme Court ordering the Boy Scouts to accept homosexuals as members and troop leaders is an open assault upon one of ...
Fatherhood is incredibly important and has the power to give life or death to children. What makes a man a good father? At the intersection of Scripture and culture, there is conflict between what the world says a father should be like, and how the B ...
The theme of fathers and sons is one of the constants of literature, both ancient and modern. From Ivan Turgenev to Chuck Palahniuk, modern literature seems particularly obsessed with fathers and their sons -- and sons without fathers. Thinking this ...
The role of the father is increasingly problematic in the context of modern American culture. Fatherhood has been marginalized and the rule and authority of fathers have been depreciated, ridiculed, and continuously redefined. From the Berenstain Bea ...
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