Children

A Message to Intentionally Childless Millennials

What would happen if everyone stopped having children? The Children of Men — P.D. James’s 1992 dystopian novel about a world where women have become infertile — depicts one hopeless and chaotic outcome. The question her story raises is increasingly…

A Meditation on Wombs

It’s a curious story, this drama unfolding in the lives of two women, each one an unlikely choice to participate in the gate-crashing of the universe. God chose women and wombs to house men. And what men! One, the messenger…

Martin Luther and the Joy of Children

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…

An Interview with Erik Thoennes

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

JBMW, FALL 2015 | Missing the Target

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…

JBMW, FALL 2015 | Let Boys Be Non-Medicated Boys

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…

JBMW, FALL 2015 | Let Boys Be Non-Medicated Boys

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…