The Botkin family is graciously allowing Old Paths to give away a free family pass to their upcoming Christian Families at the Crossroads Conference in Columbus, Ohio this July! All you have to do is mention the conference on your blog and send us your name, contact information and a link to your blog post via our feedback form and you will go into the draw to win a free family pass worth $149! Edited to add: If you don't have a blog, just e-mail ten other people about the giveaway and copy us in at info @ old-paths.com (Remove spaces). Application for this drawing ends June 25th.

Tait Edward Zimmerman, Jr. was born November 6, a 27-week preemie, weighing just 2 pounds 9 ounces, and measuring 14 inches long. Amazingly, Little Tait was breathing on his own, though he did need significant breathing assistance over the next few months. Little Tait spent his first three months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital at Providence in Anchorage, AK, connected to numerous feeding and oxygen tubes, wires, leads, and IV’s...Tait and Lauren sought counsel from and stood firm on their pre-marriage commitment not to accept government welfare, but to seek to cover the costs on their own, and with any help that the Lord would send through private support....Tait and Lauren Zimmerman have developed a website telling Little Tait’s story and communicating their need to the Christian community. Read more ( Please take a moment to read this inspiring story. The Zimmermans have just 15 8 days to go to finish raising the money needed for their first round of medical bills)

Allow these words–I urge you to read and ponder them carefully–from a Confederate soldier named Hugh A. White about his mother, to spur you on to the noble task of motherhood as we ponder and celebrate this beloved calling… Read more

Now Beacon Press, a fringe publishing house which promotes ultra-radical lesbian-feminist politics, trans-sexuality, and mother goddess worship, has teamed up with a disciple of Ellen Willis (co-founder of Redstockings, one the most radical Marxist elements of the feminist movement) to target for public censure and ridicule fruitful mothers and home educators who believe in biblical manhood and womanhood. Read more

The common misunderstanding about God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply” is that reproduction is a private choice, affecting only the private lives of each family (therefore, “stay out of my business”). We fail to understand that many principles of Scripture are not individualized; they are given to “a people” and the obedience or disobedience affects “a people”.  God’s ways are not always meant to be interpreted as a tool to improve or hinder our personal lives, though He is deeply concerned with us on a personal level.  But “His ways are higher than our ways” and we would do well to just trust that. Read more

Welcome to the newly-formed “United States of Vulgaria.” All are welcome — except Christian, homeschool families with a “quiverfull” of children. Here politicians seek to fix their runaway spending policies by banning babies; television personalities gasp at the sight of “too many” children; and journalists target fruitful mothers for public ridicule and censure. Read more

(Note: You may not want to let your children watch the first few seconds)