Category The Housewife Theologian

So my daughter was playing a song in the car this week that made me think. It’s called, “Beneath Your Beautiful,” by UK artist Labrinth, featuring Emeli Sande. He is singing to a girl who seems to have it all…

I recently heard of yet another field experiment demonstrating how easily a stranger at the park can lure an unsuspecting child. Even though parents felt confident in their discussions about not talking to strangers, and especially not to follow them…

I’m pleased to have a guest post today written by Persis Lorenti. She has some helpful thoughts from the Mortification of Spin episode of  the ‘not so subtle’ forms of domestic abuse. She also provides some helpful resources. My hope with…

I love moving through a book that makes me stop and think. K. Scott Oliphint’s Covenantal Apologetics has been that way for me. I’ve had some other projects going on, so I have been returning to this book in between.…

John Greco, Broken Vows: Divorce and the Goodness of God (Cruciform Press, 2013). My parents divorced when I was 15. In Malachi 2:16, we are reminded that God hates divorce (NKJV). I can totally resonate with the reasoning given, “For…

On today’s Mortification of Spin podcast Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt invite me to discuss a topic that is widely ignored in the church, probably because it is so hard to handle: verbal abuse in marriage. This is really just…

You haven’t lived until you’ve raced the mailman across six, one acre lots in Rollerblades. Seriously, it is my new thrill-seeking adventure. The thing is, my mailman is a bit lazy. He will not get out of his car to…

Should those of us who sit in the pews every Sunday morning bother to learn about homiletics? After all, it is a very fun word to say. It’s like a potato chip, you can’t say it just once. I dare…

I wrote a book review of Rachael Held Evans’ book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master”, for the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. It…

I stole a few moments to enjoy the beautiful weather and read on my back porch yesterday, and was so rewarded from just the first chapter of Name Above All Names, by Alistair Begg and Sinclair Ferguson. The focus of…