Children

Anne Dunlap 7-14-2009

The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Cesar Baldelomar 7-13-2009
Though it has been two weeks since Michael Jackson's death, the world continues to mourn and to monitor news sources for the latest developments.
Matthew Soerens 7-09-2009
Throughout the Old Testament, we find God's repeated command to care and look out for immigrants.
Jim Wallis 7-02-2009
Good health is the will of God for each and every one of his children.
I rode my bike to work today. Despite the summer heat, it is not a bad trip
Steve Holt 6-24-2009
Throughout the Bible, God's people are instructed to care for those who often cannot thrive on their own, most often widows and orphans.
Many of us understand God the Father through our relationship with our own fathers.
Soong-Chan Rah 6-19-2009

Father's Day has always been a bittersweet holiday for me. For most of my life, my father was absent, having abandoned our family when I was in elementary school.

Anna Almendrala 6-18-2009
An interview with a man and his children in an Internally Displaced Person (refugee) camp quickly devolves into a father desperately trying to sell his smallest child to the cameraman.
Brian McLaren 6-18-2009

It's daunting for me to even begin writing about Fathers' Day ...

Jim Wallis 6-18-2009
"Dad, could we go to the field and practice a little more pitching?" Our Astros Little League baseball team had just won the Northwest Washington, D.C. championship game in the last inning.
Many problems in our society will be solved when young men are willing to become good fathers. Of course, they can do this only if they have an example to follow.
George Mitrovich 6-16-2009
On the day my father died I was 1,200 miles away.

Roland Warren 6-15-2009
When my oldest son, Jamin, was moving out of the toddler years, I started to have a difficult time hugging and kissing him.
Jim Wallis 6-15-2009
More than the primaries, general election, board meetings, or the budget fight on Capitol Hill, this past week was a high-intensity roller coaster for me. It was Little League playoffs.
Oscar Perry Abello 6-10-2009
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. If you teach his wife how to fish, you feed the whole family for a lifetime.
Cathleen Falsani 6-08-2009
One of the everyday things Vasco has enjoyed most since arriving in Chicago from Malawi five weeks ago is being able to go into the kitchen and pour a cool glass of crystal clear water, from the si
Raising one half-African son and one of mixed European descent posed both ordinary and unique parenting challenges for my husband and me.
Eugene Cho 6-03-2009
Is it possible that we as Christians just aren't angry enough about injustices like human trafficking and slavery? Perhaps we've grown too desensitized, domesticated, and docile.
Aaron Taylor 6-03-2009
The year was 1988. I was 11 years old and my younger brother Paul was 7 years old.