While smoking does not affect fertility in males, it does affect fertility in females. It took 50-70 percent longer for female smokers to conceive than it did for female nonsmokers. The birth weight of a baby born to a woman who smoked during the pregnancy is considerably lower than the birth weight of a child [...]

The late Joseph Bayly, who wrote many fine Christian books and articles over his long career, once shared his heart about the “rebel” in his own family. He had one boy out of a total of five children who decided to rebel over a four- or five-year period from the late teens to early twenties. [...]

Jason had tried several serotonin-reuptake inhibitors for his BDD but hadn’t given them an adequate try because he was reluctant to take them religiously. He had also tried cognitive-behavioral therapy but hadn’t really given this a good try either. He’d had BDD for 20 years and had been disabled by his symptoms. Jason’s concern focused [...]