Divine Calling

My family is close friends with another family who faithfully attends our church. Often we spend Sunday afternoons together relaxing at our house. Recently, ...

Little Girls Need Mommies

Four-year-old Emily accompanied her mother into a public restroom equipped with handicapped facilities. "What are the bars for?" she asked.

"They're ...

Ingenuity's Outcasts

The children of these [poor, urban] neighborhoods are not suffering by mistake. They are the outcasts of our nation's ingenuity. We lock them up in ...

Disposable People

When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we wish. ...

The American Way

Abortion is not some little mistake. Abortion is a reflection of who Americans are: people in the United States are supposed to concentrate on themselves ...

Sharing Ministry with Your Family

In rearing their children, the [Luis] Palaus emphasized not only learning about life in other nations, but helping to make a difference. When possible, ...

Jesus in My Heart

My four-year-old granddaughter, Amanda, went to the doctor's office with a fever. The doctor looked in her ears and said, "Who's in there? ...

Taking Children to Heaven

The only thing that parents can take to heaven is their children.

Kindergarten Wisdom

Robert Fulghum wrote in the Kansas City Times, "Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in ...

Child's Perspective on Death

My 4-year-old granddaughter and I were talking one day about death. Her grandfather has cancer and I wanted to prepare her for the inevitable. She didn't ...