The Domestic Kenosis: A Response to Ross Douthat from the Mother of Eight Children

December 02, 2020 | by Rebekah Curtis

I was looking forward to my one or two children, and a life of ongoing validation through the achievement-acclaim-advancement sequence to which school had accustomed me. Is large family life an icon of the Lord’s emptying of himself on our behalf? No more, I believe, than any Christian life deliberately modeled upon His example.