Throughout history, people married for practical reasons: for economic security, for land, for children. Children bear impossible burdens. Our children are our second chance.

church): 1. Love children for your own spiritual health as well as theirs. Even when us to be. 2. Your goal is to get children more involved in worship, not less.

She is a single mother, a refugee from Somalia, and all five of her children have tuberculosis, commonly called TB. In other words, Fathia and her children are modern-day lepers.

As Matt and I grew in kinship with this community, I finally began to understand that spiritual direction should be happening mostly between friends, spouses, parents, and children.

Packed with book lists in categories ranging from theology to children's books to fantasy novels, Book Girl makes the case for reading as a pathway to delight, spiritual formation, and

Krause. In a church in the bayside city of Palu, Indonesia, volunteers smile wide as they lead dozens of children in sing-alongs with hand motions. They

Only children are full of joy. We see joy at work in small children when a parent comes home from work or comes back into the room after a brief absence.

and kinesthetic- tactile. All these different parts of the family experience that he encourages parents to use to form their children spiritually. How do you

In 1914, a few months after the first children came to Dowling Park, the first retirees arrived, establishing a culture of young and old living and working together.

of Christmas and Easter. At Christmas, he says, we rejoice with the “natural, unmixed joy of children.” Easter joy, however, is not the same. This joy is

Children with the greatest need for a supportive community were the most likely to feel unwelcome. Study: US Churches Exclude Children with Autism, ADD/ADHD.

Raising children to love like Jesus did. This, I thought, was what my parents raised me to believe in, and it was something I wanted to pass on to my own children.

Underneath the gentle smile and neighborly manner, he was driven by anger at the way the world treated children. He was incensed. This was supposed to entertain children?

With the help of the village, we built a high-hanging hut like all the other ones at the foot of the dry-land to function as the school for the Paumarí children during the day and the adults at

Or take immigration from Central America. In many cases, it's women and children fleeing communities where there's no law enforcement and no protection.

Blocking. Hitting the cutoff man. Every time. It's skills taught to small children when learning their sport that, years later, will separate the winners from the losers at every level.

Recently, I sat with a friend who uttered the tear-filled words, “I am no longer a mother.” She explained that her children had gone to college in different states, her nest was empty, and