15 Sep 2016
Posted by Alastair Roberts 
Since our founding, TCI has been committed to affirming the natural family and varieties of "household economics" as essential components to any sort of Christian political vision. Given the confusions of our day, this has required us to interact with both the push for modern egalitarianism and the reactionary...
Read more → 13 Sep 2016
Posted by Alastair Roberts 
A striking feature of modern Christian gender debates is how extensively the tenets of social constructivism have unwittingly been imbibed, by the very people who might claim to be its staunch opponents. Even in arguments from the most conservative quarters, there is a remarkable forgetfulness or neglect...
Read more → 30 May 2016
Posted by Simon Kennedy 
Over at the New York Times Ross Douthat has penned a tongue-in-cheek column about what could be if Donald Trump was a domestic policy wonk. The point he makes about family policy, one he has been making for some time now, is a good one. There is a family policy vacuum at the top end of town. The questions...
Read more → 24 Feb 2016
Posted by Simon Kennedy 
TCI has had its differences with Peter Leithart, some of them quite recent, but there is little doubt that his thought is provocative in general, and in some specifics very helpful. His piece some days ago on his First Things blog about the family (or household), productivity and fruitfulness was especially...
Read more → 20 Nov 2015
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
He writes at Quadrant: The link between Obergefell and the Planned Parenthood controversy is the family—in particular, the death of the traditional Western conception of family. Marriages no longer necessarily produce children. Children are no longer necessary products of sex, but only an optional...
Read more → 21 Oct 2015
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
I wanted to say a few things about Paul Tournier's thoughts on sublimation and the relationship between sexual energy and divine creativity. If you haven't read his essay, then refer to it first. I hope to explain his perspective and then expand it to a more basic understanding of desire and dominion. The...
Read more → 13 Oct 2015
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
Paul Tournier was a Swiss physician whose work became particularly regarded across Europe and America for use in pastoral counseling. He was an M.D. but also an orthodox Calvinist, and his writings reflect both medical and theological knowledge. Dr. Tournier was a member of the Oxford Group and published...
Read more → 28 Sep 2015
Posted by Simon Kennedy 
In his Lectures on Genesis, Martin Luther makes some observations about people who chose not to have children. He is at his subtle, sensitive best, of course. These are Luther's words, not mine! Here he is commenting on Genesis 2:18: Today you find many people who do not want to children. Moreover,...
Read more → 23 Sep 2015
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
The Reformed internet world, one of the more peculiar varieties of internet worlds, has been downright pullulating with posts about this thing called "complementarianism." We've learned that it can be "thick" or "thin," adjectives which do not immediately endear themselves to the reader. The "thin" complementarians...
Read more → 16 Sep 2015
Posted by Lily Cherney 
I. Complementarianism For Real “If gender is just a term in grammar, how can I ever find my way/ When I’m a stranger here myself?” --Kurt Weill, One Touch of Venus What follows is a kind of prolegomena to any future complementarian squabbling, or possibly a groundwork for the metaphysics...
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