"Recession linked to increase in shaken baby syndrome." I read this article today, and my heart sank. It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was speaking at a church, describing the reasons that Hope Harbor was adding [...]
Healing the Wounded Father – The Contemporary Fathering Crisis The Wounded Father In his book Finding Our Fathers, psychologist Samuel Osherson tells about a forty-two-year-old doctor who came to him with a problem. His younger brother’s wedding had brought the [...]
Halley Simpson, a Maternity Specialist wrote the following regarding child abuse. This is not a time to remain discouraged by the abuse and neglect of children that is taking place in our homes around us, but instead a time for [...]
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Best Protection for the Child: a ‘Conversation Points Memo’ Bill O’Reilly begins each “O’Reilly Factor” with a “Talking Points Memo.” His thoughts, feelings, and gathered facts about current events are penned for the entire world to see. This writer is [...]
Part 1: Fathers in the Bible The word “father” appears in the Bible over 1,500 times. Most Christians could name dozens of biblical fathers and sons, from Adam and his sons, Cain and Abel, to Zebedee and [...]
Part 2: God as Father God as Father is well known to most Christians. In the New Testament, God is called father of our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 15:6 and several other texts), father of mercies and all [...]
Part 3: God as Father of the Fatherless The Bible calls God the father of the fatherless (Psalm 68:5). About forty times, the Old Testament describes orphaned children as fatherless. Perhaps they were called fatherless because the high casualty rates [...]
Sons and Daughters of God Central to our identity as Christians is our claiim to be children of God. He is our Father. We become his daughters. We are reborn as his sons. Yet none of us have a direct [...]
“Reclaiming our Children's Childhood” Harold Shank National Spokesperson for CCFSA Jon Partlow preaches for the Pennyrile Church of Christ in Madisonville, Kentucky. One day, while reading the local paper, he read two unrelated articles about children involved in sexual [...]