John Stonestreet and Heather Peterson

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  Aug 3, 2013

  Suffer the Little Children: Genetic Testing and Lives Worth Living

  Imagine you and your spouse find out you're expecting. Having experienced this moment a few times, I know there's nothing quite like it. Your world changes, and within days, your child's entire biography unfolds in your mind: her first steps, first words, kindergarten, little league, ballet, high school, college, and eventually a young adult who will make you insanely proud. It's all so promising.

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  Jul 9, 2013

  A Perfect Daughter: Loving a Special Needs Child

  When prenatal testing revealed that the White's second child had Down Syndrome, Heath was heartbroken and dreaded her arrival. Heath later understood that his daughter was just as precious as any other child. And he wanted the world to know the same thing.

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  Jun 28, 2013

  Marriage and Imagination: After the Supreme Court

  Even after the Supreme Court's rulings, can you imagine our culture returning to marriage as God designed it? As we often say around here, politics is downstream of culture. Given what the current cultural definition of marriage is, the political one will soon follow, unless it is challenged and redeemed. This is where the battle must be waged.

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  Jun 24, 2013

  Beware of Bible McNuggets: When Reading the Bible Can Be Spiritually Unhealthy

  The spiritual diet of too many Christians consists of a lot of Bible McNuggets. And that's not healthy.

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  Jun 20, 2013

  The Government, the Pill, and Our Daughters

  So the government wants our daughters to have access to the morning-after pill. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

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  Jun 5, 2013

  Yes, Christian, There is a Devil

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined the phrase "defining deviancy down" to describe the process by which we accept outrageous acts that we would never have tolerated a generation ago. Well, looking at recent headlines, let's consider adopting a new term: defining depravity down.

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  May 25, 2013

  Hard Questions: Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and Birth Control

  It was striking that in the oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case before the Supreme Court so little credence was given to the connection between marriage and procreation.

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  May 24, 2013

  No Limits, No Culture: Portents of a Post-Christian America

  On May 7th, Delaware became the eleventh state to legalize same-sex marriage. On May 14th, Minnesota became the twelfth. While that leaves thirty-eight states that haven't redefined marriage, we shouldn't deceive ourselves. As Rod Dreher recently pointed out in "The American Conservative," historians will one day remember our time as "a cultural revolution."

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  May 22, 2013

  Materialism vs. Reality: A Worldview Just Not Big Enough

  C. S. Lewis observed that the most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones argued, but the ones assumed. And there's little doubt that in most universities across the United States, secularist materialism, in one form or another, is the assumed and unquestioned perspective from which most subjects are understood and taught.

• May 18, 2013

  Gosnell and the Abortion License: Incoherence at Its Best

  Among the many offenses of the "abortion license in America" is its incoherence and arbitrariness. Gosnell faced the death penalty for actions which, if they had been performed weeks or even minutes earlier, might not have even been a criminal offense.