In a culture that's facing a crisis of mental illness and suicide, Christians, of all people,

should be able to point people to hope, but you have to learn how to bring Christ's hope to those

who are around you and are suffering. In the free online course, Hope Always, Dr. Matthew Sleath,

equips Christians to understand this current epidemic of mental illness and suicide and learn what the

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especially if you're a parent, a pastor, a teacher, a friend working with the next generation,

hope always will help you break the silence and offer real hope to those who need it most.

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colson educators.org. Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the

lens of unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. America, like the rest of the developed world, is facing a baby shortage, and the inevitable

reckoning has already begun.

Last year, the New York Times asked, why are so many Americans choosing to not have children?

And more recently, the Atlantic warrant of the consequences of the baby bust for the Democratic Party.

Now, the article talked as if this was a reality still coming, but falling fertility has been

happening for quite a while now.

The real problems it poses for our future are no longer deniable.

Still, why Western fertility is falling is a source of controversy.

The most popular theory is that affluent and educated women in the West no longer want children

because they're career-oriented feminist. In this way of thinking, women have rejected

motherhood because they believe that academic and professional and personal achievement

is not merely better than, but wholly incompatible with having a family. This view that the traditional family is a kind of

slavery that oppresses woman has long been promoted by feminist authors, beginning with Simone

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