family

I hope we will always be amazed and humbled that God chooses to use the Colson Center to equip His people.

Family is not merely a “name.” G.K. Chesterton called the family a “triangle of truisms,” with the three sides of father, mother, and child. “The love of man and woman is not an institution that can be abolished, or a contract that can be terminated,” he wrote. “It is something older than all institutions or contracts, and something that is certain to outlast them all.”

Grocery store remarks can reveal a lot about a culture. Just ask any mother or father of more than 1.7 children about the comments that strangers somehow feel free to make about their unfashionably large broods. These comments reveal what more and more data is also showing. A lower percentage of Westerners, including Americans, are embarking on parenthood than ever before. However, these comments also betray how we think about children: as burdens, impositions on freedom, or so very, very expensive that only the wealthy can afford them.

A California woman who has spent 16 years of the past two decades pregnant with 12 children said she believes children are “a blessing.”

In late June 17-year-old Addison Bethea was bitten in the leg by a shark while searching for scallops near Keaton Beach, Florida. Her brother, and firefighter and EMT, jumped in to save her life.

Part of the beauty of biological families is that they are not chosen. In essence, they are built around obligation, a duty to the other, not merely as a means of self-fulfillment. By contrast, if we can opt into a group of friends, we can just as easily opt-out.

Pro Football Hall of Fame Coach Tony Dungy and his wife Lauren told NBC's Today Show this week that they have fostered more than 100 children thanks to a decision they made to never turn away a child in need.

The Parents Television Council is urging Netflix to change the rating on Stranger Things from TV-14 to TV-MA due to a 700 percent increase in graphic violence and the frequent use of the f-word in Season 4, saying parents cannot “do their job effectively” if series are wrongly labeled.

Christ for All Nations has announced that it will reimburse its employees for adoption expenses up to $5,000.

On Wednesday, a court in the United Kingdom ruled that the parents of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee can appeal a court ruling ordering a London hospital to discontinue their son's life support.