The Housewife Theologian

I was born to young parents---teenagers. But I still had a very stable home and a crib of my own. I was safe and secure. Well, ostensibly anyway. Although I was intimately knit together by God in my mother’s womb, I was born his enemy. I was sinful, unholy, a child of wrath. But God would not leave...

My friend Dana Tuttle has another book review for us. If you have followed any of her reviews, you have probably picked up on her proclivity to read about executed housewife theologians. Dana has now moved on to American soil and the plot thickens. While we certainly would not agree with Mary Dyer'...

It's that time again, for your mid-week dose of Mortification . This week Todd, Carl, and I rant a little about all the sexual chaos that we now have to navigate through in our culture. There's the new challenges to acceptable gender labels, what biblical femininity and masculinity entail, and how...

"So it’s not an easy sell." These are two lines from the song “Nobody Loves Me” by Derek Webb. Sometimes, when I’m shocked by the latest idea that so many people are buying, I remember these words. So much of what is marketed as Christian literature reminds me of the airbrushed, digitally doctored...

In reading Scott Oliphint’s latest article on his second tenet of a covenantal apologetic, I realized that the implications of the principia of Scriptural authority go beyond what we think of when we think of apologetics. After a proper defense of this tenet, Oliphint pleas: Why would we want to...

It's that time of the week again, when the confessional and evangelical world is subjected to hear Carl, Todd, and me have a conversation that counts. Well, only if you want to. For our Bully Pulpit topic today, we discuss an issue in the church that I think many of you would agree needs some...

I can always count on my brother to give me a cool, new workout. When we were away together over Thanksgiving we did a 20 minute, high intensity workout with a deck of cards. Good times. Like my dad, Luke is good at finding or putting together creative workouts. While I was on the phone with him...

David Wells has a great chapter on “The Love of God” in his latest book, God in the Whirlwind . He challenges our own ideas about what love is or is supposed to be against the biblical holy-love of God. He describes for the reader a truly amazing love that we would never be able to fathom apart...

Modesty can be a fighting word, even in the church these days. I could maybe even say, especially in the church. So, we at MoS thought this would be a conversation that counts. Todd showed up especially dressed for the occasion. And we invited Gloria Furman , author, blogger, and pastor’s wife, to...

Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell Ever (CruciformPress, 2014) The title of this book prevails upon the reader to open it up and see what this is all about. It’s daring. I mean encouraging and hell are in the same sentence! It kind of reminds me of the old fundamentalist preachers my...