At about a year old, a baby finally learns to walk. For months, the child has been motoring around the home by crawling on all fours. After plenty of practice pulling themselves up to stand and countless tumbles, the child takes his or her first steps. Parents enshrine the moment of their child’s first steps in pictures, videos, and baby journals, and in a heartbeat, will describe in full detail the when, the where, and the how of it to loved ones and friends. Those steps are a marker of a child’s growth and development and represent the wonder of being human (when most creatures of the animal kingdom move about on all fours!)
Paul J. Palma is a Biblical Studies professor at Regent University. He is the author of several books, including Beyond the Evangelical Gender Roles Gridlock: Reimagining Paul's Views on Women, Marriage, and Ministry (Lexington), Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States (Palgrave Macmillan), Embracing Our Roots: Rediscovering the Value of Faith, Family, and Tradition (Wipf & Stock), and Italian American Pentecostalism and the Struggle for Religious Identity (Routledge). Among numerous articles and book chapters, Dr. Palma contributed several biographies to the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States (Rowman & Littlefield). He is a contributing writer for CBN.
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