Just before her 15-year-old son was shot and killed not far from the Obama’s ‘Tony’ home in Chicago, Timika Ruteledge-German...
Children
Seven-Year-Old Apologist Stands Up to Problem of Evil+
Recently, as I began the nightly ritual of putting children to bed, I knelt by my seven-year-old son’s bed and...
The Boy With the Broken Face+
Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. — Isaiah 53:4 The boy is not accustomed to the...
Easy-peasy: what my son taught me about the easy life+
For the first several years of our son’s life, my husband spoke nothing but Spanish to our son. Our reason...
The powerless love of God+
As I walked into the kitchen, I saw my daughter staring intently at a piece of paper. The tip of...
Making every song a prayer+
My five-year-old, Fredrik, could barely wait to tell me. As I buckled him into his booster seat, he said, “I...
Reconsidering home for the holidays+
The childhood home, for many of us, is a source of shame and grief, sometimes happiness and comfort. We consider...
The sting of mistaken identity+
What if you woke up tomorrow and learned that everything you had ever believed and been taught was a joke,...
Missing worship+
After school every day my kids and I run through a sort of “poor man’s” or maybe “cheap date” version...
Does God call some to childlessness?+
In the August 2012 edition of Vogue, Pamela Paul wrote an article on a woman’s choice to never become pregnant....
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