On Gratitude and Stress, Whether Women Get to Grow Up or Not, and one HOT Husband

First, my best friend is doing a study (related to her degree) on using gratitude to combat stressors in parenting.  She needs participants and I thought some readers here might be interested.  Check out the details on Holy Experience blog.  It’s fun and it’s free. 
 Secondly, I recently put up a post at Complegalitarian about the lack of [...]

Formula Over Relationship: RED FLAG #1

After the “unsafeness” of the whacko church of my young-adult-met-Jesus days (that is, my Bible College, where I learned so much and yet also learned that the leader was getting cozy with some of the female staff, but with a doctrine of authority similar to the Shepherding Movement’s, we were taught it was more important to the Lord that we not [...]

Easter Sunday: Shoot, Even the BAD Christians Go to Church!

I guess that means we’re worse than bad?  But it was still really nice staying home.  We sang some songs, in a casual way, talked a little bit, in a casual way, and ate a lot of candy eggs, in a casual way.  (It’s hard not to be casual when you have a two year old [...]

Ruminating on Our Enemy the State: America the Adolescent?

With regards to the topic of discussion this month over at RTD (where I also put up this same post), Lydia commented,
“…[A]ll the bad that can be said about corps. can be said about the gov. Refer to “Our Enemy, the State,” by Albert Knock for an exposition on this.”
Salixc provided links to the book [...]

Our Enemy the State (in Bile Green and Size 9 Font)

The labored sounds of a printer are to the East of me. That would be, “Our Enemy, the State” sludging itself out, page by page. The text is in a lovely green color, since the black ink cartridge ran out yesterday (likely having something to do with multiple copies of Woody and Buzz [...]

Skimming Along (Sci-Fi, Bleacher Butts, and More)

It was sci-fi week at my house. Once a month I interrupt my voluminous non-fiction habit (which is not to say I learn a lot, just to say I read a lot) and try to intersperse a good novel, preferably one on a list of “classics.” So I spent a couple days reading [...]

Shut-Up! No, Keep Talking! (Trinitarian Musings and Flying Divergent Opinions)

One thinker says this of my thoughts,
If you don’t think that one can be equal in essence and subject eternally in person, well then you are going to be committed to rejecting the Christian doctrine of God. Some of your unconsciously held philosophical beliefs are incompatible with Christianity. And that is good for you [...]

One More Picture — “Arriving Home the Last Night of the Play”

Another optional title might be:
Woman Gets Seriously DELUGED with Attention From Her Honey (who delivered flowers and chocolate EVERY SINGLE NIGHT the Play ran, and that is no joke, and yes, those really are three dozen roses)!  Whataman. 
Or, then again, perhaps this title might be better:
What Happens to the Downstairs of a Home [...]

Pictures of the Molly Diva (Oooh, Oooh, Stand Back)!

Okay, just kidding (the title) . It’s all smack, one of my favorite languages. I specialize in pig-latin and smack. Smack comes out in Monopoly and ig-latin-pay omes-cay out in oments-may en-whay I ant-way to say something ecret-say ithout-whay the kids atching-cay on. Anyways, on to the pictures [click to enlarge] [...]

Soft Complementarian Speaks on Women’s Roles in the Church and Home

This essay, written by complementarian professor Mark L. Strauss, is not to be missed.  One of his closing points [emphasis mine]:
As a seminary professor, I preach in a lot of churches and work with a lot of pastors. I also see many churches in crisis, often losing staff and sometimes splitting. But I [...]