(RNS) — When former “Bachelor” contestant Madison Prewett Troutt announced this summer that she and her husband would be disciplining their daughter by spanking, many of the Christian influencer’s 1.8 ...

Q&A with author Kara K. Root about anxiety, trust, and raising kids well. A few weeks ago, the morning after some squabble I now can’t recall, my eldest daughter and I were alone in the car. A tense ...

Parenting books—even Christian ones—capitalize on fear and longing, sometimes making promises that don’t hold true. Professor Harold Hill had to create a problem to sell a solution. The shifty ...

Less than a third of American parents pray with their children, according to new research from the American Bible Society, even as younger parents remain more likely than non-parents to identify as ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

(RNS) — Christians who believe God requires them to spank wave away ethical concerns and research that robustly demonstrates the harm. As we write in our upcoming book “The Myth of Good Christian ...