The Housewife Theologian

Longing to Know , Esther Lightcap Meek (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2003) Knowing is the responsible human struggle to rely on clues to focus on a coherent pattern and submit to its reality (13). As I mentioned in my review, Esther Lightcap Meek’s Longing to Know is one of those books...

Have you noticed all the hoopla on the internet about the new partial (and by partial, I mean eight partial lines) manuscript discovery that has been named The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife ? I would refer you to Michael J. Kruger’s or Dr. Mohler’s articles for a scholarly synopsis, and even its possible...

Longing to Know , Esther Lightcap Meek (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2003) My first exposure to philosophy was in high school. I thought it would be a cool class to take, but it proved to be far above my head. When we took a whole class contemplating how we know the color red is really red...

Have you heard of the Tough Mudder? If you check out their website here you will see that it is a 10-12 mile, hardcore challenge. British Special Forces designed the 25 military-style obstacles that make up the course. The task seems insurmountable, as the website boasts that it will “test your all...

The Midnight Disease , Alice W. Flaherty (Boston; NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004) This is an interesting book that I picked up on sale a few years back. It had me at the subtitle: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain . Much of the book is about a brain state called...

I have a goal: I want to be strong when I’m fifty. And I’m talking about muscles. Did you know that your muscles begin to deteriorate when you hit the big 5-0? I want a good head start so that I can keep my strength going as long as possible. So I workout. And I happen to really like it. But lately...

Life Everlasting , Dan C. Barber and Robert A. Peterson (P&R, 2012) At my last book club, my cousin reviewed the book Heaven is for Real . It had already been negatively reviewed several months ago in our group, but she wanted to read it for herself. If you haven’t been living under a rock...

“Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful” (Heb. 10:23). We are plodding through Hebrews in the women’s Bible study at my church (yes, still!). I started in February, and we are now inching our way through the “hall of faith” in chapter eleven...

As I was rollerblading the other day, I was thinking about artistic geniuses (stop laughing). It seems that every unbelieving artistic genius is also a bit insane—or a lot insane! I always thought it was because they just had too much talent to handle, but I came to a different conclusion about...

I am happy to share some great news with you all today—P&R Publishing will be publishing my book, tentatively titled Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary . While there are definitely similarities with the theme of my blog, my book has a different target audience. It is...