SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Australia is part of a Seventh-day Adventist international film project that puts a spotlight on the role of fathers. Adventist businessman and father-of-two Justin Stafford is one of six dads featured in Fathers, an intercultural documentary initiated by Adventist media entities in Europe. The film’s director Adrian Dure said t
My heart hurt for my son Camden, all of eight years old, after I broke the bad news and then watched him storm upstairs in a fit of anguish and pain. But in that moment, a realization hit home to me—as abstract theology suddenly became personal. But let me digress for a moment. About a year ago, my wife Camille and I decided that we n
With my wedding, I have made the angels laugh and the devils weep. (Martin Luther) Marriages and families are facing increasing pressure, due of the stress of modern life. Divorce rates among Christians are comparable to those among secular couples. Christian homes are being broken and disrupted at an alarming rate. Marriage rates in America are at
Last month, the Roman Catholic extraordinary synod on family vetoed gay-friendly statements proposed by the pope. Prior to this veto, sharp differences surfaced among the highest members of the church, prompting Cardinal Raymond L. Burke to publicly disagree with the synod’s midterm report in The Catholic World Report: The document lacks a solid fo
As marriage undergoes a new cultural definition from a union between man and woman to a union between any two persons, the role and value to children of a stable, two-heterosexual-parent family has been greatly overlooked. First, looking at children from women with same-sex relationship experience, sociologist Mark Regnerus writes: The children of
