So much of the Christian life is about balance. Like a pendulum swinging back and forth, a journey far in one direction is often followed by a journey equally far in the opposite direction. A Christian who has focused for years on all that God expects of His people may wake up one day exhausted [...]

I hear it all the time. It follows mention of large families like a tantrum after too much candy. “It isn’t fair to the older children. They have to do too much, help too often, and practically raise the little ones.”

How atrocious.

I won’t deny that if the parents aren’t giving all they have for their [...]

Last weekend, in an attempt to win the Insane Mother of the Year award, I took my poor little family, struggling with sore throats, runny noses, and fevers, on a roughly fourteen hour each way trip to New York City for my college roommate’s wedding. If it had been for anything else (OK, except maybe [...]