Unplanned parenthood
I suspect that most agree with this basic principle, this core assumptions of modern democratic life: pregnancies should be, with rare and rarely charming exceptions, planned.
The humility of travel (with children)
It was the proverbial first time we had flown with our son.
The sharpening joy of motherhood
Every relationship invites us into new sharpening from God.
The grammar of prayer
We are talking to God as a family and, more to the point, my son and his one-year old sister are being soaked in a Christian grammar.
After birth
I fell deep and headlong into a pothole: preparing for the birth of my first child, but not what came afterward.
Christophobia: Holy Innocents, past and present
The Herodian thirst for power led to countless children being baptized by blood, a baptism our Lord himself would escape only for a season (it was necessary first for him to be baptized in water to fulfill all righteousness).
On begetting a son
Begetting is baked into our nature. It is part of the goodness of the created order: to procreate is to partake in the blessing of God (Gen. 1:28).
Children without mothers and fathers, without hope of adoption
The province of Ontario’s proposed Bill 28, the “All Families are Equal Act," proposes removing the terms "mother," "father," and "adoptive" from birth certificates.