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Why Children Make Us Conservative

Love without affirmation is impossible? Try telling a parent.

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Samuel D. James
May 11, 2021
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A few weeks ago I wrote about the “evangelical idolatry of the family trope” and why I don’t think this line is very compelling or helpful in light of what we know about declining Western fertility. The point I wanted to get across in that post was not that it’s impossible to make an idol out of the family. It is very possible, and if you spent some tim…

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