January-February 2018 Rooted Parent Top Ten

Today, we are proud to publish the inaugural Rooted Parent Top 10- a list of parenting articles from across the web for the Rooted community. This list represents ten articles we believe will encourage and equip you as…

Why We Do Devotions With Our Teens

We have three kids, two of them teenagers, and I have a deep conviction that we should be doing family devotions as our kids grow and mature into young adults. Lest you think my convictions are coming from…

Pushing Past White Privilege

As Rooted Parent Editor, I have been able to read through drafts of Ben’s Sciacca’s excellent Red Pill articles (posted here and here) and discuss them with Ben and our editor-in-chief, Charlotte Getz. I told them both that…

Don’t Hurry the Hurt

Ping. I looked over to my phone alerting of me a new text. In an instant, the peace of sitting alone at the table after a long day was disrupted once again. The message was from the same child I had already sat…

Moms: Talk With Your Sons About Sex

Sigmund Freud had some disturbing theories about men and their relationships with their mothers; Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psycho, makes clear that mothers really can do a number on their sons. But God created the mother/son relationship to be…

Jesus: Sexually Objectified and Assaulted for Us

This past week, our ministry co-hosted an open Q&A with parents and students about the #metoo and #churchtoo campaigns. We wanted to answer the questions: What is the Christian response to stories of abuse and assault generally, and…