"A Beautiful Mind": Loving the Unlovable

The movie A Beautiful Mind tells the story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematician whose career and life were crippled by schizophrenia. Nash taught at ...

Social Scientists on Benefits of Marriage

Marriage does a lot of social good, concluded a report titled "Why Marriage Matters: 21 Conclusions from the Social Scientists."

The study found ...

Marriage: Going the Distance

In Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas notes that there are trees in Washington State's northern Cascades that are hundreds of years old. One tree in particular ...

Are Fathers Necessary?

In How Now Shall We Live, Chuck Colson notes the disturbing realities that plague children who grow up without a father:

Children in single-parent families ...

Stay Married for Kids' Sake

Children don't need their parents to like each other. They don't even need them to be especially civil. They need them to stay together, for better ...

A Father's Presence

Christian family therapist John Trent shared two letters given to him by a third grade teacher. The letters were part of an assignment her students completed. ...

Effects of Divorce on Children

In her book The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, Judith Wallerstein writes about the negative impact divorce has on children:

Children in postdivorce families ...

Allure of Adultery

Chuck Colson writes in Breakpoint:

I still remember my sadness on hearing that an old friend, and someone I believed was a sincere Christian, was leaving ...

John Lennon's Son, on Dad

I felt he was a hypocrite. Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the ...

Cure Worse Than the Disease

Divorce, as a cure, is far worse than the disease.