Suffer the Children in Our Brave New World

The Gift of Parenthood in an Age of Decadence

For the past couple of years, I’ve been trying to come to terms with how at odds parenthood seems with cultural assumptions around the good life (which I sense boil down to chase freedom and pleasure; spurn responsibility and obligation).

This essay is a sermon I preach to myself often. Everything is either a good time or a good memory, and I actually wo…