The Housewife Theologian

So I heard a comment the other day that I’m sure you’ve heard occasionally as well, “You just need to put Jesus in the center of your life!” Let me tell you why that bugs me. First of all, the picture it creates in my head is picking up one of my son’s little action figure guys and placing him in...

That’s my one word to sum up parenthood. My husband and I actually toasted last night to the fact that this is just the beginning. We are out of the diaper/toddler/food-throwing stage, and all three of our children are adjusted well in school. Well, at least they are seemingly well-adjusted. My 13-...

I am going to try and tread softly here. Owen Strachan recently wrote an article for Patheos on the first televised women’s UFC fight. He is against mixed martial arts in general, but is particulary bothered by women competing, as he thinks that it does damage to the picture of biblical femininity...

The Creedal Imperative , Carl R. Trueman (Crossway, 2012) Apparently, this book is too cool for a subtitle. Carl Trueman has a market on cool by rebelling against cool. Especially skinny jeans. But I digress. I’m thinking something like, “The Indicatives are Imperative.” But that’s just me. Does...

This is how gracious Tim Fall is: He asks me if I would be interested in doing a guest piece for his blog, The Train Wreck , and I respond, "Yes, but it's going to be a while, I am behind on my writing with the whole housewife gig I am trying to pull off." Tim responds, would you like me to give...

Here’s a question that produces opinionated answers. Stephen Prothero, in his book Religious Literacy , thinks we should. But it isn’t for the reason most would assume. First, there are those that think that we need to bring prayer and daily Bible reading back into the public schools. After all,...

My children think Valentine’s Day is about them. Since most of the time it is on a week day, my husband and I don’t do the whole go-out-to-dinner thing until the weekend. In the beginning, he and I were sharing a plate of spaghetti on his balcony the day he proposed (which was the day before he was...

I didn’t realize when I was reading Simonetta Car’s biography on Lady Jane Grey to my kids that this week marks the anniversary of her execution. Today, in fact. This book is part of a series of biographies for 7-12-year-old readers. But they are so good, I enjoy reading them aloud. As wonderful as...

I barely looked at my computer screen this weekend. It was kind of nice. Anyway, that just gave me the chance to pop the top off one of my favorite articles that I wrote back when my readership was about 75% smaller. Whether it's your first or second drink, I hope it doesn't go down too smooth:...

This is the question that came to my mind as I was reading Carl Trueman’s booklet, The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind . Particularly after this statement: Lacking a strong doctrinal center, evangelicalism’s coherence as a coalition of institutions and organizations is about to come under a...