Parenting children while postpartum is uniquely challenging. Somewhere in the muck and mire of feeling desperate for a solution, Noelle developed a method to right the ship when a child slips into a pattern of misbehavior.

The following is an excerpt from the introduction to our new Theology of Home book, now available at The Mercantile HERE. By Carrie Gress and Noelle Mering It starts with a most basic element: water....

Men who don’t see the vital need for them as men, finding great joy and purpose in fatherhood and fidelity, won’t see much need for themselves at all. Cut off from their deeper purpose, they more easily drift into contrived ones, such as standing on a sidewalk—not protecting women or children—but protecting his ability to reject both. No apologies.