Fam-Damily Update

 

I was going to write a brief brag about the fact that I’ve just potty-trained my fifth kid.  Don’t you think there should be a medal or something for this landmark achievement?  Though, admittedly, I’ve become a big slacker compared to my early days.  I mean, my first child (at 16 mos) got a potty chair for Christmas!  Shoot, I [...]

Why I (Speaking in Servant-Love) Believe Men Should Not be Church Leaders

10. A man’s place is in the army.
9. The pastoral duties of men who have children might distract them from the responsibility of being a parent.
8. The physique of men indicates that they are more suited to such tasks as chopping down trees and wrestling mountain lions. It would be “unnatural” for them to do [...]

Coming out of Fundamentalism (A Reader Writes)

I enjoy getting emails from readers sharing their thoughts on coming out of legalism and/or fundamentalism, most of which I tend to keep private (and most of which take me at least a week or more to reply to, depending on how busy I am).  This letter was really good, and the writer, who blogs regularly at Living [...]

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] [...]

The Former “Biblical Patriarchalist” Muses on Gender Roles and Christ…

This was an excellent post (The Effect of Biblical Womanhood on a Woman’s Self-Image), albeit a few years old, from the Happy Feminist. I came from the world Crystal writes about (here, the comments being very enlightening) and I know well the way one thinks within it.
It is fair to say that these women, on the one hand, [...]

Quick Mushy Post

He hardly ever reads my blog, probably because he gets more than enough of my unceasing musings in Real Life, but I want to write about my husband anyway. 
Whenever I look at our wedding photo, I experience equal measures of grin and grimace, but even the grimace is laced with a merciful kindness.  I see two [...]

Musings on Authority and the Weak and Righteous Rebellions (against “Crying it Out,” and Beyond)

I once believed that Authority is a major crux upon which the  Christian either stands or falls.  Satan was the first to rebel against authority, therefore rebellion against authority was the “original sin,” so to speak, of the universe.   That rebellion was not something I wanted to participate in.   
In this system, God was believed to set [...]

Letter from Reader: Question on Disciplining Kids, Comments

I found that you started writing your blog again I like to read your thoughts, though you tend to go more extreme in one way or another from me.  :PAbout spanking, before my daughter was born I was totally pro-Ezzo.  That lasted about an hour into her little life.   ;)   She’s 15 months now, still [...]

Roll, Roll, Roll My Eyes and Christmas Trees are Pagan—-Run!

I don’t always remember to tell you, but I’ve posted recently at Complegalitarian: Husbands and Wives are as Gardener and Soil (and should LIKE it).  As you can tell, I’m getting  less tentative and more fiesty in my leanings toward egalitarianism.  I apologize to anyone who is bothered by that, but the fact is, the farther I [...]