By Trillia Newbell We are pressing pause on our series during the holidays. We know we will all be busy with family and friends, and therefore will pick up with more articles in January. The emails we have received are an indication to us that this topic deserves great attention and prayer. We have been...

By Jeremy Dys By some standards – contemporary and historic – I do not have a very big family.  By others, evidently my wife and I are freaks of a side-show nature, two denim jumpers away from being featured on a TLC reality show. Whenever my family of six – myself, my wife, and four...

The Story: “Planned Parenthood’s Abortion Theater,” by Mollie Hemingway writing at TheFederalis.com The Lead: Closing clinics make for great headlines and more dramatic court briefs. But a media mildly more skeptical of savvy public relations campaigns and well-scripted legal wrangling might serve the public a bit more. Why It Matters: There’s a lot in this...

By Grant Castleberry When it comes to how the great Christians of the past saw and understood human sexuality and roles in marriage and the church, most of them simply operated under the biblical constructs that they saw in the Bible. They believed that marriage could only exist between a man and a woman, that...

The Story: “World’s First Surviving Septuplets Turn 16,” as reported by Lydia Warren at the DailyMail.co.uk The Lead: Bobbi and her husband Kenny famously declined selective reduction after learning they were pregnant with seven children following fertility treatment, saying it was ‘in God’s hands’. Why it Matters:  Am I the only one that remembers this?  I...

Sarah Bessey. Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women. New York: Howard Books, 2013. 256 pp. $14.99. By Courtney Reissig Much has been said about feminism over the years. From non-Christians to Christians, people from varying walks of life claim feminism as their own. Sarah Bessey, however, is making a new...