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Intention God is challenging us to be better parents. Scripture “Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, [...]

Amy Coney Barrett is a danger to families who desperately want children. So says Senator Tammy Duckworth, based on an advertisement which Judge Barrett signed back in 2006. This, Senator Duckworth suggests, disqualifies Judge Barrett from the US Supreme Court. I don’t know Judge Barrett [...]

This week I would like to share an abbreviated article by former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia John Anderson, published in The Australian: “Black lives matter, but dads should matter first”. John’s main thesis is that most of the problems in our society, among both [...]

"In family life, be completely present," is a saying of Lao Tzu from 600 BC. Here we are now, 2600 years later, and we are still struggling to learn this simple but profound piece of advice. This advice is all the more critical for fathers, [...]

Two weeks ago, I wrote about “Work Day with Dad”. In the article, I told the story of a number of dads who had changed their children for the better by simply hanging out with them. The act of taking your children to work, or [...]

Intention God entrusts us with an amazing responsibility: the care of new life. May our communities learn to value and nourish each person, especially pregnant mothers and the children they carry. Scripture “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come [...]

“Given renewed support for the family during an election year and after the COVID lockdown, even a radical group like Black Lives Matter has toned down its anti-family advocacy,” said Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. Morse noted that the Black Lives Matter [...]

I once went to a men’s breakfast where Paul Bartlett, then a father of young children, was speaking about the importance of fathers in the lives of their children. He told the story of how, once a month, his dad, who was in a high-pressure [...]

“Love is a many-splendored thing” is the title of a popular song from the fifties. Many people would argue the sanity of that song and concur instead with Shakespeare who said, “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage”! Nobody would disagree with you if [...]

It was June 1910, Washington. The first official Father’s Day was being celebrated. Apparently, according to today’s standards, they had been through a century of backwards gender stereotypes and roles perpetuated in American society. Yet it was only a year before that a young lady [...]

Millions of Australian Dads will hear and see Dads4Kids' Best Daddy musical Community Service Advertisements over the next 12 months. They will be inspired to become who their children already think they are: ‘The Best Dad in the World’. Dads4Kids sees the whole year as [...]

Melania Trump has dignity and charm. Every immigrant has a story, though most don’t get to marry the president of the United States. Sometimes, these stories are handed down from generation to generation, so they end up being told by children or grandchildren. Mine involves [...]

The United States Commission on Unalienable Rights has issued its long-awaited report, and, not surprisingly, sexual radicals have launched an all-out attack. Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse stated: “We applaud the Commission for an excellent exposition of the origins of human rights. But [...]

John Eldredge said in his bestselling book, Wild at Heart, “A hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior.” I am sure that Chantelle, Mark Rapley’s wife, would agree with John’s prescient quote. This [...]

I could have titled this article The amazing things that happen when a father says “sorry”, but having the courage to say sorry and exercise forgiveness will work for anyone: dad, mum, male or female. Some years ago, at my daughter’s engagement party, I had [...]

We need each other. The saying from Proverbs is true: “As iron sharpens iron, so does a man sharpen the face of his friend.” Robert Louis Stevenson put it this way: “No man is useless while he has a friend.” Dr John Tickell, a specialist [...]

When my beautiful and only daughter got married, I was reminded of the words of Enid Bagnold, “A father is always making his baby into a little woman, and when she is a woman he turns her back again.” At the time of my daughter’s [...]

By Joseph Hatcher. Editor's Note: In this incisive piece at OnePeterFive, journalist Joseph Hatcher dissects the history of the feminist movement's ties with the Sexual Revolution and population control activists, pointing out anachronistic inaccuracies in the show Mrs. America. He explains how one rich white [...]

This week was an important week for one of my granddaughters. It was her seventh birthday. Her mum took her, and her sisters, horse-riding for a very exciting and fun-filled day. We got invited to the after-party, and it was of course gallons of fun. [...]

Margaret Court is not only Australia’s greatest ever tennis player, but she is also proving to be something of a lightning rod regarding religious freedom.