If you grew up in purity culture, you might remember the object lessons used to warn kids about the danger of sex outside marriage. One of the most memorable involved a rose. It was passed from person ...

In “Help! I’m Ruining My Kids,” Bible teacher Abbey Wedgeworth offers gospel-inspired approaches to managing parenting ...

If the Bible is read as a flat, literal text, it is a truly terrible manual for parents. If relying solely on scripture, Christian parents might think their responsibilities are limited to ...

A new book has debunked many evangelical Christian parenting methods, including corporal punishment, arguing that they are not as biblically grounded or effective as their proponents claim. In The ...

Parenting books—even Christian ones—capitalize on fear and longing, sometimes making promises that don’t hold true. Professor Harold Hill had to create a problem to sell a solution. The shifty ...

Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. “Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise: If you honor your father ...

Growing up, only my mom was a Christian, and she was not very mature in her faith. My dad was not a believer, and as one could imagine, there were constant problems within our family unit because of ...

Q&A with author Kara K. Root about anxiety, trust, and raising kids well. A few weeks ago, the morning after some squabble I now can’t recall, my eldest daughter and I were alone in the car. A tense ...

I can still hear my mom's sewing machine. The gentle hum as she worked, drinking black coffee, listening to Christian radio. I was a child in the 1980s, growing up Southern Baptist in a small Texas ...

When I had my first baby in the 90s, I’d never heard of Attachment Parenting. In fact, I felt inadequate from the start, not even knowing how to properly hold my newborn son. There was no skin-to-skin ...

(RNS) — Christians who believe God requires them to spank wave away ethical concerns and research that robustly demonstrates the harm. As we write in our upcoming book “The Myth of Good Christian ...