Category The Housewife Theologian

I’m probably treading on thin ice with this article. The wiser part of my conscience told me to leave this issue alone. But this subject bugs me. And I know that it is the bane of many women’s summers—the bikini…

What is your normal? What mundane duties do you wake up to most mornings? Gloria Furman’s involves sweeping desert sand from her floors, cleaning dried, crusty fruit from unrinsed smoothie cups, and clipping four sets of finger nails and toenails…

I’ve kind of had a theme song going for this baseball and softball season—99 Shades of Crazy, by JJ Grey and Mofro. No, it’s not Christian, and it has a bad word in it. But the title fits me lately.…

There’s a lot of growing going on in my house these days. I’m at that strange stage of parenting where I’m painfully realizing that my job is to help my kids to not need me. That’s the goal, right? As…

Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus (Crossway, 2011) If you thought I was through with my passion to learn about the eschatological factor of feasting, especially how it is portrayed in the gospel of Luke, you are sadly mistaken. Interestingly,…

Dennis E. Johnson, Philippians (P&R, 2013) Let me start off by giving the disclaimer that I am a Dennis Johnson fan. For me, he is one of those authors that if his name is attached to a book, I get…

My friend Dana is at it again. And today you are in for a treat. For the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s beheading, Dana Tuttle has put together a mini history lesson to show us how God uses imperfect people to…

The women’s channel, Karis, over at The Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood posted a version of my article Do Men Struggle With Female Submission, titled Men and Female Submission. Some of the personal details were taken out for the…

The Aquila Report posted an excellent article yesterday from Psychology Today claiming that we are raising a nation of wimps. There were so many good points in this piece (which I highly recommend you read) that I may write several…

The wish I hear most parents say they want for their children is happiness. It makes me sad really, because so often they don’t know what they are talking about. They haven’t thought about true happiness themselves, so they don’t…