The Housewife Theologian

There’s a catchy song out on the radio now called "Rumble and Sway" by Jammie N. Commons. The lyrics aren’t the most wholesome. He’s sizing up a woman and the chorus repeats: Don’t you tell me no truths, I want only your lies. As I heard him singing through the chorus, I thought about how true this...

A January news report from CBS revealed: According to the results of the survey, published Wednesday on Gallup’s website, a reported 36.1 percent of Americans were considered to be overweight last year, and 26.2 percent were classified as obese. This is a real crisis. Did you know that there is...

Starr Meade, Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds (P&R, 2013) I’ll just go ahead and sound like the bad Christian here. I often cringe at the thought of family devotions. It’s the combination of talking the kids into it, disciplining their behavior during (which majorly involves the skill to stay...

[caption id="attachment_2085" align="alignleft" width="300"] Weaned for finer things. Picture from sacredsandwich.com[/caption] Yesterday I decided to do a little splurgin’ with Spurgeon. So I cracked open one of the volumes from The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit series that my granddad handed...

I’m probably treading on thin ice with this article. The wiser part of my conscience told me to leave this issue alone. But this subject bugs me. And I know that it is the bane of many women’s summers—the bikini question. Not just for us, but for our daughters as well. Rachel Clark wrote a...

I’ve kind of had a theme song going for this baseball and softball season—99 Shades of Crazy, by JJ Grey and Mofro. No, it’s not Christian, and it has a bad word in it. But the title fits me lately. These days I don’t know if I’m bringing the right child to the right place, and I’m hoping that none...

There’s a lot of growing going on in my house these days. I’m at that strange stage of parenting where I’m painfully realizing that my job is to help my kids to not need me. That’s the goal, right? As my oldest is headed to high school in the fall, and my middle child will...

Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus (Crossway, 2011) If you thought I was through with my passion to learn about the eschatological factor of feasting, especially how it is portrayed in the gospel of Luke, you are sadly mistaken. Interestingly, I can be the same way with my theology as I am with food. I...

Dennis E. Johnson, Philippians (P&R, 2013) Let me start off by giving the disclaimer that I am a Dennis Johnson fan. For me, he is one of those authors that if his name is attached to a book, I get that warm, cozy feeling and want to buy it. I think my first exposure to Johnson was Triumph of...

On Monday I reviewed Gloria Furman's new book, Glimpses of Grace . While I was reading it, I thought it would be fun to do an interview with Gloria. So here is a little glimpse into the author's thoughts on her book and life in Dubai: 1. Tell us a little bit of what it is like being a church...