Parenting

Smartphones, Therapists, and Your Kids: A Review Essay

Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Jonathan Haidt. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2024. Abigail Shrier. Bad Therapy: Why…

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A Return to Protestant Catechesis | Ancient Paths

Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Children are a gift from the Lord. Instructing one’s children to follow the Lord is a sacred undertaking, filled with both deep challenges and profound joys. But it is…

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Principles on Parental Rights and Child Flourishing

Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. God’s creation of mankind as male and female in His image grounds human dignity, undergirds the institution of marriage, and establishes the natural family through procreation (Gen 1:27–28; 2:24).…

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How to Raise Adults

Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. When it comes to raising children, what is the goal? Admitting there are many things we should accomplish, are they all equally important? To get at this question, let’s…

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Parenting as a Shepherding

Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. I was riding through the Romanian countryside when my host pointed to a large flock of sheep. At the head of the flock was a shepherd who was…

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The Law and Parental Rights

Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Some of the thorniest issues in our culture are occurring at the overlap of church, state, and family. Modern evangelicals are, perhaps, most comfortable thinking of these things…

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…