The Housewife Theologian

The Weight of Glory, C.S. Lewis (Harper One, reprint 1980) There is an interesting essay in this collection called The Inner Ring. It seems Lewis is addressing some college graduates about the world they are about to enter. He describes this unwritten phenomenon of a longing we all have to be a...

I mentioned in my article, The Empty House , that my mom lives very close to Burkittsvile, MD. Even though you can pass through that tiny town in the time it takes to blink an eye, Burkittsville is full of fun stuff—especially for entertaining bored teenagers. One place we would head up to for a...

Yesterday I decided to do my praying on my front porch in the sun. I had just returned home from the Tuesday morning ladies Bible study. Currently, we are going through 1 st Kings. As I was praying, I was sort of also meditating on the lesson, thanking God for the older ladies in there who are so...

Thoughts and Their Fruit , Spurgeon’s Sermons, Vol. 9 (Baker, reprint 1999) This sermon is on Jeremiah 6:19, “The fruit of their thoughts.” Spurgeon has a way of taking the smallest piece of Scripture and driving the nail in good. Here he shows how the smallest sinful thoughts are the eggs of sin...

We just love to talk about grace. We sing about it, marvel as receivers of it, say it before meals…we think we have a good, healthy handle on what grace means. But I don’t really think we do most of the time. I think we have a taste of what grace means. Surely, we know that we are saved by grace,...

Tim Blackmon, (Sept/Oct, 2011). The Dangerous Act of Hospitality. Modern Reformation Magazine , Vol. 20, #5 , 41-42 What a great issue Modern Reformation put out this month! In this article, Blackmon gives a passionate case for why Christians especially should be hospitable. Unfortunately, with...

Awaiting a Savior, Aaron Armstrong (CruciformPress, 2011) This is Cruciform’s book for October, and definitely one of my favorites from them so far. The subtitle, The Gospel, the New Creation and the End of Poverty, is a bit of a hot topic in the whole study of Christ and culture right now. I...

The fall reminds me of my dear friend Sarah. We grew up together. Sarah has that fiery red hair that blazes like the leaves in October. But we both shared birthdays in November and fall was our season. I was the cautious kid—afraid of everything. Sarah was adventurous. She wrote a poem about it...

Martin Luther’s Tabletalk , translated and edited by William Hazlitt, Esq. (Christian Heritage, reprinted 2003) This is a great book (with a neat story behind it) that outlines Luther’s convictions freely given through conversation in the intimate relationships with his friends and disciples. As...

In my last article , I talked about the authentic Christian. In the end, I agreed with D. A. Carson that the “ ’authentic Christian’ is the one who is most shaped in thought, word and deed by Christianity’s foundational documents, by Christianity’s Lord, by Christianity’s creeds.” Of course, I...