the kiddy pool

The Olympics and the Church.

"Every relationship with an addict follows the same patterns of peripheral powerlessness"

Life and death are in our tongues, so let us speak words of life and...

On running and mothering and grace above all.

"A steady diet of highly-processed, mass-produced junk food dulls the palate until we don’t really...

A child's story of darkness and how it illuminates our fears.

"Whether we treat children in poverty as inmates or as brothers and sisters speaks volumes...

"The Hunger Games is compelling precisely because it calls upon audience to consider what kinds...

"I used to fear, during my pregnancy with my second daughter, that God would smite...

"To produce anything of worth, we need to spend time producing nothing fearlessly."

"How many of us wrestle with the differences between our ideas of marriage and family...

U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins shares a poem on our significance and inconsequentialness.

"The challenge, it seems, is learning to love our children for who they are, for...

"Parenting often seems about helping children 'get ahead,' accruing social capital in childhood to translate...

"I think sometimes in the rhetoric about how many children we (or better yet, other...

"Our names tell us how we know ourselves, how we want to be known, and...

"Our families define us, and we define them, mapping out a microcosm of our vision...

"All we can do each day is thank the Lord for new mercies, assess the...

"But that scene with Pam and Jim reminded me of something more, too, of something...

"The problem with reading the book at age 15 was that I, a privileged idealist...

Every week in The Kiddy Pool, Erin Newcomb confronts one of many issues that parents must...

"Where most Americans see a juxtaposition of purity and corruption, one that offends our sensibilities,...

"While I appreciate the concept behind the Christian princess, Scripture doesn't talk about God’s children...

"... I too had been swept into the magic of Nutcracker’s world, my daughter’s world,...

"It wasn’t until I stopped to reflect on the way home that I realized what...

". . . mixed with that fragility is a gracefulness that speaks to the eloquence...

Every week in The Kiddy Pool, Erin Newcomb confronts one of many issues that parents must...

I got pregnant with my first daughter almost 4 years ago now; I subsequently carried...

"I think that creative itch derives directly from our origins as creatures made in God’s...

"It’s my job to to treat them as whole humans while demonstrating that even if...