Reading Reflection:
Lit!, Tony Reinke (Crossway, 2011) It’s not so weird to read a book about reading. I mean, it wouldn’t be strange to read a book about any other occupation or hobby. And yet it does sound a little funny to…
Category The Housewife Theologian
A Helper is Not Passive!
So I shared in my last article how both men and women struggle with the whole idea of submission in practice. A godly man does not just throw down the “submission card.” The governmental authority of the relationship for which…
Reading Reflection:
Counsel from the Cross, Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Dennis E. Johnson (Crossway, 2009) This is a book that I keep drinking from. I have already used it for another Reflection and an article. And yet, I found myself turning back…
Do Men Struggle with Female Submission?
This is not the summer I had envisioned for my family. In the spring, my husband and I were happily talking about different families that we wanted to have over for cookouts, horseshoes, and the fire pit. I envisioned family…
Book Review (Part 2)
Living God’s Story of Grace, Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage (P&R, 2012) I had so much to say reviewing Living God’s Story of Grace that I ran out of room to discuss a major theme of the book: story. Turnage encourages the…
Extreme Sports
I come from an active family. Seriously, our two-car garage was converted into an exercise room with one of those huge gym mirrors, exercise equipment…the whole nine. My mom taught aerobics classes out of it, and eventually opened her own…
Book Review (Part 1):
Living God’s Story of Grace, Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage (P&R, 2012) Lately, some of us ladies have been fighting for our right to have real theological studies. We are insulted by the mamby-pamby, theologically-lite women’s studies that seem to open up…
West Virginia Porches
In light of tomorrow’s holiday, here is a repost I enjoyed writing last year about WV and the 4th of July: Last night our family celebrated the Fourth West Virginia style. Let me explain. About seven years ago my husband…
Book Review:
Killing Calvinism, Greg Dutcher (CruciformPress, 2012) “God does not need us to be his spin doctors.” Now that’s a heck of a sentence. It’s short. It’s true. And it kind of slaps you in the face. You can find it…
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
I felt a strange tension between the already and the not yet while gathering together with 3,800 women for the TGC conference. There we were, from all over the world, together. Women, believers, longing to learn in community from the…