The Children of Divorce

The Children of DivorceWhy does divorce cause so much strain and long term distress for children of all ages? Andrew Root, a recognized authority on youth ministry and a child of divorce himself, explains that divorce causes children to question their core identity. Since a child is the product of the union of a mother and father, when that union ends, he or she experiences a baffling sense of loss of self a loss of his or her very sense of being. Root redirects efforts for

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and it tackles a number of profound philosophical questions without getting bogged down with jargon

providing students with helpful ways of wrestling with knotty interpretive issues

he situates the Sermon in dialogue with the Jewish and Greek virtue traditions and the philosophical-theological question of human flourishing

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Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't reimagines four classical theistic arguments--cosmological

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