Category The Housewife Theologian

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Reading Reflection:

Longing to Know, Esther Lightcap Meek (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2003) Knowing is the responsible human struggle to rely on clues to focus on a coherent pattern and submit to its reality (13). As I mentioned in my review,…

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Jesus is Already Betrothed

Have you noticed all the hoopla on the internet about the new partial (and by partial, I mean eight partial lines) manuscript discovery that has been named The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife? I would refer you to  Michael J. Kruger’s…

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Longing to Know

Longing to Know, Esther Lightcap Meek (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2003) My first exposure to philosophy was in high school. I thought it would be a cool class to take, but it proved to be far above my head.…

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Toughest Event on the Planet

Have you heard of the Tough Mudder? If you check out their website here  you will see that it is a 10-12 mile, hardcore challenge. British Special Forces designed the 25 military-style obstacles that make up the course. The task…

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Reading Reflection:

The Midnight Disease, Alice W. Flaherty (Boston; NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004) This is an interesting book that I picked up on sale a few years back. It had me at the subtitle: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and…

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Life Everlasting

Life Everlasting, Dan C. Barber and Robert A. Peterson (P&R, 2012) At my last book club, my cousin reviewed the book Heaven is for Real. It had already been negatively reviewed several months ago in our group, but she wanted…

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Something to Hold Fast

“Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful” (Heb. 10:23). We are plodding through Hebrews in the women’s Bible study at my church (yes, still!). I started in February, and…

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What a Woman Wants in a Man

As I was rollerblading the other day, I was thinking about artistic geniuses (stop laughing). It seems that every unbelieving artistic genius is also a bit insane—or a lot insane! I always thought it was because they just had too…

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Exciting News!

I am happy to share some great news with you all today—P&R Publishing will be publishing my book, tentatively titled Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary. While there are definitely similarities with the theme of my blog, my…