Jim Hamilton | Professor of Biblical Theology The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky I have friends I respect whose kids have played (and some who do play) travel ball, and I mean no offense to them by this post. Nor am I categorically condemning their decisions and choices. I am offering these thoughts for parents who...

Since I became a Christian, I have been fascinated by church history. Since “the past is a foreign country,” I have enjoyed studying how saints of old viewed the world in which they lived, knowing that Augustine’s Hippo or Calvin’s Geneva doesn’t exactly have a one-to-one correspondence to our modern American evangelical milieu. That being...

Erik Thoennes joins Scott Corbin on Danvers Audio to talk about the image of God, the importance of play, and the theological implications of peek-a-boo. *********** Image: snowy soccer field by T. Kaiser on 12/28/14, accessed on Flickr and licensed under Creative Commons

Rachel Jankovic | Mother, Writer, & Author of Loving the Little Years Moscow, Idaho JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** I think it is safe to assume that most believers are familiar with the many Biblical passages that speak of children as gifts (see especially Psalms 127, 128). They are considered a blessing, and inheritance, like arrows...

Grant Castleberry | Executive Director The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Frankfort, Kentucky JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** In August Target became the next corporate power,1 after Amazon,2 to rid themselves of all gender designations and labels for children’s toys and bedding. In the corporate rush to not be the company behind the ever-moving gender...

Greg Gibson | Family Ministries Pastor Foothills Church, Knoxville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** We’ve all heard it before—stories, that is, from people reminiscing about the “good ol’ days” when they were kids. “When I was a boy,” they say with an antiquated shimmer in their eye, “we could roam the streets, climb the tallest of...