If we want more babies, we need to learn how to live under a curse. American birthrates, like those in much of the developed world, have plummetedway below replacement levels, and an aging, declining population is bad news. But recognizing the problem doesn’t mean people are ready to be part of the solution.

The fortunes of marriage have changed. Marital stability looks much different than it did 30 years ago.

Right from the beginning, when God made humans male and female—when he created sex and sexual desire and instituted marriage—he was building a scale model so that we could get a sense of just how passionately Jesus loves his church and just how intimately we can be united with him.  

By Rebecca McLaughlin – worldviewbulletin.substack.com – July 26, 2024 Some years ago, a semiretired lawyer told me about a time when he was working for a vehicle manufacturer whose new car design had been copied by a rival company. At the beginning of the trial, the lawyer placed a scale model of the car in question on the judge’s desk....

By: David French – nytimes.com – September 1, 2024 There are few higher and better callings than to forge a bond with a person and provide a place where they belong. What is the most important single thing that you can do to heal our national divides and to improve the social and economic mobility of your struggling neighbors? I’d...

. . . Our deep desire to be both fully known and unconditionally loved points us to the one true love relationship that none of us can ultimately live without: the neverending love that Jesus has for us.

By: Rachel Wolfe – wsj.com – July 20, 2024 The costs and rising expectations of parenthood are making young people think hard about having any children at all. Americans aren’t just waiting longer to have kids and having fewer once they start—they’re less likely to have any at all. Women without children, rather than those having fewer, are responsible for most...

Dr. James Dobson Condemns Biden Administration’s Policies in Urgent Open Letter: “Systematically Destroying the Hopes and Dreams of the American People” COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Dr. James Dobson and his ministry leadership sent an urgent open letter to President Joe Biden, condemning his administration’s grievous policies that are systematically destroying the hopes and dreams of the American people. President Biden is facing...

Recent data suggest that although 83% of young adults are hoping to get married eventually, 73% also report that getting married is too expensive.

While the decline in marriage has eased somewhat in recent years, the fact remains that in the U.S., the marriage rate has dropped by almost 60% over the last 50 years.