“We have been trained to see adoption as a fairy-tale ending to a tragic story, one that elides the birth mother’s complex feelings about relinquishing

A new study explores what sort of parenting is most successful at passing along religious commitment.

The United States demands too much wisdom from Black parents. We must walk that fine line between telling the truth about how cruel America can

A study in the American Sociological Review finds that women who attend churches with restrictions on their leadership roles are less healthy than women attending

Congratulations to Jim Schaap, regular contributor to The Twelve. “The Story of Chief Standing Bear,” a four-part series on “Small Wonders,” his weekly feature on

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NPR interviews Beth Barr, church historian, on her new book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became the Gospel Truth,

In 2014, 276 mostly Christian female students were kidnapped by an Islamic terrorist group. Some have escaped and some were rescued but 111 are still

Kristin Kobes DuMez writes autobiographically on the messages she received growing up about women’s leadership in the church