The Housewife Theologian

What are you all reading on summer vacation? My friend, Anna Anderson, commented about a book she just read at the beach and I asked her to write something about it for the blog. Maybe it will be one you would like to pack in the suitcase: On the bookshelf of the beach house where we recently...

My daughter asked me such a good question the other day. She wanted to know, if Adam and Eve did not sin, would we do everything right on the first try? Would there be mulligans and mistakes? Would everything we do be just right? Would everything we create be perfect? I found myself wishing she...

Seriously, creeping on my daughters’ Instagram accounts can give me all kinds of writing material. I can’t keep up with the trends, and am constantly getting an education in social media. Matt and I unashamedly find ourselves looking up texting shorthand on the internet on a regular basis, just...

Since my Mortification of Spin cohosts have shown me the joys of Tullamore DEW and Pliny the Elder , I thought it would be good for them to experience the almost heaven that is Jack Daniels in West Virginia. And so we figured Dan Phillips and Frank Turk would be great to bring along. It just seems...

This photo from awkwardfamilyphotos.com is a work of art. It truly captures the adolescent culture that we have been perpetuating. All it needs is a cell phone somewhere stuck to the overgrown kid. And I emphasize the word we because I am certainly guilty. I had a clarifying moment the beginning of...

When I sit under the preached Word, I have some presuppositions. I trust that my pastor has done the work of preparing the sermon, and that unless he says otherwise, he did not merely cut and paste another preacher’s work. But there has been some recent controversy with pastors and plagiarism. And...

I'm over at Reformation21 today posing some questions about reading levels. Does the average person have the reading level to read their Bible? There's much more related to this that could be discussed. Feel free to comment here after you read the article .

Well, the MoS Refpack ran into a familiar face while we were kicking back the other day. And that is when all our trouble started. There we were having a drink, and low and behold, Mark Jones was in the same pub. I suggested pretending we didn’t see him, but the drinks we were having seemed to be...

Hannah Anderson has written a wonderful book, Made for More . My review of it is now posted on Books At A Glance . Here is a teaser: As much as I love to read Dorothy Sayers, her book Are Women Human? was a bit of a disappointment to me. I was left frustrated because the two essays contained in it...

On today's Bully Pulpit , Carl, Todd, and I have a casual conversation about women writing and talking theology. While we do hold a complementary view of women holding office in the church, we talk about some of the reasoning out there that keeps women writing and discussing women's issues only. As...