Category The Housewife Theologian

One October afternoon my aunt Sandra gave me a call at college. She excitedly claimed that she knew who my future husband was. With my curiosity aroused but my will very doubtful, I asked for some details. He was her…

I thought I would repost this Mother’s Day church sign blunder from last year. The last section on Adam and Eve is an excerpt from my book, Housewife Theologian, which is coming out in July. So I was on my…

Although I try to hold on to the delusion that I am still young, rapid technological changes serve as a perpetual reminder of my real age. I have found myself shaking my head with the cliché, “Kids these days…” With the…

I have a book review of Christ in the Chaos over at the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood’s website today. Check it out: Christian mom. These two words sound delightful until you are actually faced with the challenge to…

This is the question that God asks Adam after he partook of the forbidden fruit. We are going through Genesis in my Bible study now, and we have come to the Fall. Today these words from God really shocked me.…

He teaches fourth grade in the public school. And he’s good at it. He should probably just be a hero for that. But since he commutes 45 minutes across the border into Maryland, he thinks it’s important to have his…

I’m sure you’ve heard the reports that social media is making us more lonely. You can probably confirm this statistic in your own experience. In an article for the latest issue of Modern Reformation magazine (May-June, 2013) titled “Alien Authenticity,”…

Have you ever learned or taught a spiritual truth, only to then be challenged by it and fail? Just this weekend, I was deeply moved as I was typing these words for something else I am working on, “Sanctification is…

Every now and then a Facebook post will get ya. Kristie Anyabwile posted this just yesterday (it may be a quote form Nancy DeMoss, as she was tagged in it): “Children will often cultivate an appetite for that which they…

Our culture seems to have an obsession with mediated devices. I like to think that I’m still young until I remember my college days, driving around with a clunking car phone reserved only for emergencies. Although less sophisticated, even then…