The Housewife Theologian

The Organized Heart , Staci Eastin (CruciformPress, 2011) I ordered this book for my church library with the intention of someday reading it myself. Someday. Sure, it sounds positive, especially the subtitle, A Woman’s Guide to Conquering Chaos. I knew that my heart could use some organizing. I...

What we know about God, our theology, affects our Christian walk. This is certainly true regarding perseverance. Christians have many ideas about how we prevail to the end. One idea I saw a lot of growing up goes along with the “once saved, always saved” doctrine. I think the doctrine has good...

I’ve got a question for you guys. When it comes to baptism some people dunk, some people sprinkle. Some of us are paedobaptists, and some hold a credobaptist conviction. My question is for every situation. We just had an interesting baptism in our church that you don’t see often. It was of an older...

There’s a plethora of blogs out there about blogging and writing. Since I’m having a book published and I have the whole blog thing going on, I try to read up on some of the tips offered. It seems that so many of the websites are filled with people selling eBooks that hold the 6 secrets you need to...

My days are packed with trivial drama. Solee hid the toothpaste because Haydn (and probably Zaidee too) never puts the cap on when he’s through. Between that and the over-squeezing, it gets all nasty (for extra effect Solanna says g -nasty). To solve this problem before, I went from the one big...

Over on Head, Heart, Hand , David Murray linked to an infograph featuring the 50 things technology has replaced . I busted out laughing when I read dialing *69 to find out who last called you. My kids wanted to know what was so funny, so I had to explain myself while they looked at me like I was...

I read an interesting article yesterday by Laura Hazard Owen claiming that although more people are buying their books online, there is a disconnect between where they are making their purchases and how they are discovering their books in the first place. She claims that even the popular sites like...

Gospel Amnesia , Luma Simms (GCD, 2013) The title gives you a pretty good clue about this book. It’s a condition that we all need to be on guard against. And it can even be contagious. None of us are immune to its pervasiveness. Whole churches can be infected. The author herself had a pretty bad...

I went through such a stage of reading through the puritans in my late twenties and early thirties and that does something to you. Most of it is good, of course, but you do develop some quirks. For instance, I began thinking in long-winded sentence form. But I digress. It was a providential...

Every night as a child I said the same bedtime prayer. You know the ditty: Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. And then came the barrage of “God blesses.” When I began to have a more mature prayer life, I grew...