Entries by Christopher Stevens

Live Sturdy Parenting Workshop

Join us for a free Raising Sturdy Kids mini-session with Keith McCurdy, M.A., Ed.S. A national family and parenting educator and consultant, Keith is also a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist in Virginia. Keith will help parents see how allowing children to face challenges can prepare them to become sturdy adults […]

“Myself Am Hell”: What Paradise Lost Has Taught Us About Freedom, Creation, and Sin

Milton’s difficult seventeenth-century poem imagines Satan’s rebellion, the creation of the world, the temptation of Adam and Eve, humanity’s fall, and the promise of redemption. Some of our best conversations began with a simple question: If Satan cannot defeat God, what can he do? Milton’s answer is that Satan attacks what God loves. He cannot […]