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Don Browning
Don Browning was professor emeritus of religious ethics and the social sciences at the University of Chicago and author of the forthcoming Reviving Christian Humanism.
The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered
To appreciate this important book, the reader must set it in the context of the emerging dialogue betwe...
After the loving
The central message of Stephanie Coontz’s history is that marriage is in big trouble....
Good Christian men
By exploring the contradictions between official theologies and the actual behavior of religious communitie...
The state of the family: Don Browning replies
Small differences in analysis and in the use of theological sources can make for big differences in conclusions, even among friends like Homer Ashby and me, who share many of the same commitments....
Empty inclusivism: A report on church and family
Last month the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) wisely voted to send a five-year study of the family back to the committee that drafted it for revision....
Marrying well: It's usually ‘for richer'
The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier and Better Off Financially, by Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher ...
Dependent Rational Animals, by Alasdair MacIntyre
Are humans really different from animals and, if so, how? And what difference does the answer make for our understanding of human morality?...
Crisis of fatherhood: When dad is missing
Fatherhood is in trouble in the black community, and throughout American society....
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