Celebrating C. S. Lewis: ‘The Screwtape Letters’
“The book opened my eyes to a spiritual plane that I had heretofore neglected—to my detriment.”
The Kiddy Pool: Joy Is Sufficient
“To produce anything of worth, we need to spend time producing nothing fearlessly.”
The Kiddy Pool: Jim Henson’s Compromise
“How many of us wrestle with the differences between our ideas of marriage and family and children and the daily realities?”
The Kiddy Pool: “To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl”
U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins shares a poem on our significance and inconsequentialness.
The Kiddy Pool: Parental Ambition and ‘The White Queen’
“It’s nearly impossible to love and raise children without dreaming of their futures, without imagining successes for them that surpass our own.”
The Kiddy Pool: So You Think You Can Dance, Where Iron Sharpens Iron
“Where other programs highlight that kind of drama as the primary plot-line, this show focuses on the performers as dancers in partnership with other dancers.”
The Kiddy Pool: Love It or List It
“It’s much easier to make compromises with each other when we act upon the truth that seeking and submitting to God’s will is essential.”
The Kiddy Pool: Will You Still Love Me?
“But that is a paradox of the faith, that only my weakness and my emptiness can leave room for the Spirit to move within me.”
The Kiddy Pool: To a Wedding, and Beyond
Dreams and weddings and eternity.
The Kiddy Pool: The Borgias’ Twisted Version of Brotherly Love
Showtime’s papal saga echoes with biblical themes of sibling rivalry.
The Kiddy Pool: Lions and Little Foxes
We cannot escape the traumas of life. We can only follow our Master through them.
The Kiddy Pool: Over-Sharing and STFU, Parents
“Social networking turns most parents into writers who need to consider our children’s privacy.”
The Kiddy Pool: Lowe’s versus George Herbert
The Kiddy Pool: Andrew Solomon’s ‘Far From the Tree’
“The challenge, it seems, is learning to love our children for who they are, for who they are meant to be, and not as vessels or torchbearers for our own dreams and desires.”
The Kiddy Pool: Taking A Slower Family Path
“Parenting often seems about helping children ‘get ahead,’ accruing social capital in childhood to translate to adult financial and social status.”
The Kiddy Pool: Only Children Are Lonely and Selfish (Just Like the Rest of Us)
“I think sometimes in the rhetoric about how many children we (or better yet, other people) ought to have, we forget that families are complex.”
