The Housewife Theologian

So I shared in my last article how both men and women struggle with the whole idea of submission in practice. A godly man does not just throw down the “submission card.” The governmental authority of the relationship for which he is responsible is much more complicated than that. He has to weigh...

Counsel from the Cross , Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Dennis E. Johnson (Crossway, 2009) This is a book that I keep drinking from. I have already used it for another Reflection and an article . And yet, I found myself turning back to it this weekend for comfort. Here’s an excerpt I had tabbed: Our...

This is not the summer I had envisioned for my family. In the spring, my husband and I were happily talking about different families that we wanted to have over for cookouts, horseshoes, and the fire pit. I envisioned family bike rides, hikes, and day trips. It’s also become my thing to have a...

Living God’s Story of Grace , Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage (P&R, 2012) I had so much to say reviewing Living God’s Story of Grace that I ran out of room to discuss a major theme of the book: story. Turnage encourages the reader to learn and rehearse God’s story of grace. I briefly mentioned in my...

I come from an active family. Seriously, our two-car garage was converted into an exercise room with one of those huge gym mirrors, exercise equipment…the whole nine. My mom taught aerobics classes out of it, and eventually opened her own old-school gym. My dad taught Martial Arts out of it,...

Living God’s Story of Grace , Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage (P&R, 2012) Lately, some of us ladies have been fighting for our right to have real theological studies. We are insulted by the mamby-pamby, theologically-lite women’s studies that seem to open up with silly games, involve crafting, and...

Killing Calvinism , Greg Dutcher (CruciformPress, 2012) “God does not need us to be his spin doctors.” Now that’s a heck of a sentence. It’s short. It’s true. And it kind of slaps you in the face. You can find it on page 74 of Killing Calvinism . I think that another good title for this book would...

I felt a strange tension between the already and the not yet while gathering together with 3,800 women for the TGC conference. There we were, from all over the world, together. Women, believers, longing to learn in community from the theme, Here Is Our God . Singing together, listening together,...

This is a story about redemption and two very different dinners. There are four main restaurants at the Hilton in Orlando. For fine dining, you would go to the steakhouse. The Bistro offers a nice menu as well, at a more affordable price. The Grille is more like your basic bar/restaurant menu. And...

What do you read on an airplane ride? My trip to Orlando was only 2 hours, and I was not in the mood to start a new book before flooding my brain with the messages given at the TGC women’s conference. So I decided to bring Chesterton’s Orthodoxy along for the ride. His chapter on The Paradoxes of...