How many of us asked the deepest philosophical questions of our lives when we were children, and shelved them once we were adults and didn’t have them time for them? And how many of us have anesthetized ourselves against the pain of seeing injustice of the world, injustice that even as children when we were well aware of?
He was born with AIDS on Sept. 11, 1990, to a crack-addicted mother in a hospital in Washington. There were physical and developmental issues severe enough that his twin lived only 20 months. Deserted by his parents, he got his first break in 1993 when two men, intent on caring for a baby with serious physical needs, agreed to take him in.
“as demographers sift through recent data releases from the Census Bureau, they have found that Jacksonville is home to one of the biggest populations of gay parents in the country”
There’s little doubt the subject is the new-old darling of experimental psychology.
A majority of Americans surveyed for the just released book, Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans’ Definitions of Family, consider same-sex couples with children to
My heart remembers how important it was to be important enough to make my dad pause and listen. I remember feeling myself grow 10 inches taller as I saw my father pause for intrigued thought before he could respond to my comments and queries.
Is it wise, I asked, “to put our trust in strangers, or to love our enemies as ourselves? Would we advise our children to do so?” Then came a passage to which my daughter Sarah took great exception: “I cannot embrace this radical faith,” I wrote. “I feel no kinship with those who can cut short a human life without remorse; or with terrorists who target the innocent; or with adults who torment small children for the sexual thrill. I suspect no decent soul does either.”
As Father’s Day approaches Frank Stasio of WNUC – North Carolina Public Radio and host of The State of Things talks about Fatherlessness.
Out of 100 American teens, only three are likely to say they see members of the clergy as role models, according to a survey on teens and ethical decision making.
Bishop George Packard, the Episcopal Bishop in charge of Chaplaincies, points us to a new resource offered by Episcopal Church to families celebrating Christmas while