Now That We're A Family
Culture has reduced the modern family to a joke -- informing parents they are only capable of shuttling their children from expert to expert who experiment with untested agendas. Katie and Elisha lean on their experience growing up in large families of 10 and 11 kids, to encourage parents to take back control, stop listening to popular relationship advice, and embrace their God-given role as their children's primary authority.
496: Questioning "Trad-Wives"
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495: Does Pursuing Our Dreams Inspire Our Kids?
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494: Feeling Lonely As A Stay-At-Home Mother
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493: Cutting Family Off
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492: Losing My Wife To Romance Novels
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491: We Messed Up
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490: Discontent With Husband's Provision
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489: Peptides, Hormone Replacement, and MAHA
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487: Gentle Homeschooling That Gets Results With Jennifer Pepito
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486: Should Men Teach Women How To Keep A Home?
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485: Eliminate Kid's Bickering, Arguing, and Whining
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484: Ten Years Of Marriage: What We Wish We Knew As Newlyweds
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483: Created To Be His Help-Meet and The Enneagram
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482: First Trimester Update With Baby Number 7
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481: Are We Going Back To Classical Conversations Essentials?
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480: Healing From Deep Resentment
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479: How Big Families Harm Kids
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478: Preparing Low-Tech Kids For A High-Tech World
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477: They Don't Want Their Own Children
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476: Hosting Big Families Overnight
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475: Why We Started Throwing Parties
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474: Parenting Like The Wealthy
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473: 5 Things Our Parents Did That We Will Never Do
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472: Marriage Myths From 30+ Year Veterans Chad & Jenise Johnson
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471: Having Baby #7 While Changing Jobs and Moving // Derrick Vachon
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470: Christians and Conspiracies
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469: Are We Pushing Our Kids Too Hard?
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468: Home Is For Hospitality // Mystie Winckler
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Mystie Winckler married her high school sweetheart, Matt, at nineteen; together they have five children, two of whom are now grown men, but all of whom have been homeschooled from the beginning.
When she’s not teaching, cleaning, cooking, or reading, Mystie publishes articles, podcast episodes, and videos on homemaking cheerfully on her website, Simply Convivial. Her community, Convivial Circle, is a treasure tr...
467: My Family Gets Me Better Than My Husband
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466: Natural Family Planning // It's Not What We Thought
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465: Screen Time Disagreements In Marriage
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464: Home Rhythms & Managing Your Home // Elizabeth Parsons
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463: We Misunderstood This For Years
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462: Things We've Changed Our Mind About
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461: Living In An Over Sexualized Culture
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460: LIVE: Creating A Dream Board For 2026
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459: Setting Your "No" Goals For 2026
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458: Parenting Like The Wealthy // Jeremy Pryor
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Jeremy met his wife April in Jerusalem in 1997 when they were students. They’ve spent the last 25 years building Team Pryor together. The Pryors have five kids: Kelsey, Jackson, Sydney, Elisa and Kaira. They live in a multigenerational house with Jeremy parents and other extended family members in Fort Thomas, KY just a few miles from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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457: Raising 14 Children In Uganda // Sarah Jantzen
Sarah Jantzen has been in Uganda since 2017 and is an active foster parent. She has started or been an important role for many ministries, including Mukisa House, Suubi, Reclaiming Hope and Path of Hope. Â
Sarah runs a child protection training program called Reclaiming Hope that sets up church/faith-based child protection units in villages across Uganda. She currently is opening an emergency shelter for teenage survivors of sexual abuse called Path of Hope. Sarah raises 14 kids while ministering to her neighbors in Nasenyi Village through education support and Bible studies. Sarah’s future goal to be happening in 2...
