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23 May

Thirty-Four Ways to Ramble (The Episcopal Church, Bed-wetting, and Birthday Musings)

Posted by molleth in Church Expressions, Gentle Mothering, Making Me Think, On His Written Word, On Women, Orthodox Thoughts, missional in practice. 50 Comments

It’s my birthday, and the celebration started by a newly-turned four year old waking me up (he’d slipped into my bed at some point in the night, I guess) to yelp that he’d just had an accident. Reaching over towards him, still fumbling my way into reality, my hand touched the warm wet sheet at [...]

31 Dec

Two Hours and Fifteen Minutes Until a Below-Zero 2009

Posted by molleth in Making Me Think, On Hearth and Home, On Him, On Utah/LDS, On Women, Readers, Bloggers and Friends, Oh My!. 29 Comments

This morning my thermometer said it was -30 F.
I’m taking a break from the all-night-movie-athon. We just finished Castle in the Sky (I’m a huge fan of Miyazaki’s films) and took a half-hour roller blade break before starting Nanny McPhee. In leiu of trying to fit my feet in kid-sized roller skates, I spent some time reading Feminist [...]

27 Dec

This is the House That Truth Broke (Welcoming 2009)

Posted by molleth in Abusive Groups, Making Me Think, On Hearth and Home, On Him, On His Written Word, On Whatever, On Women, Praying. 36 Comments

My personal life has been difficult for a long time now, but this last year was perhaps the most challenging and painful of all. As the circumstances weaved themselves together, each seemingly unconnected thread slowly forming a discern-able pattern, I found myself the recipient of a strange little gift. Clarity, something I’ve lacked for a long time [...]

17 Dec

Letters to an Abused Soul: When Love is “No”

Posted by molleth in Abusive Groups, Complementarian/Egalitarian, Conservative Christian-ism, Law and Grace, Making Me Think, On Hearth and Home, On Him, On Women, missional in practice. 110 Comments

I’m helping someone I love work through the realities of what has been going on in her marriage. It is hard complex stuff. It is not fun. But as she laid her marriage dreams in the grave and stops denying the truth of her situation, she is beginning to find peace. I was musing tonight over some of the [...]

12 Dec

Douglas Wilson on Misguided Pro-Life Advocates (Key Lesson: Don’t Waste Time Saving the Bad Babies)

Posted by molleth in Abusive Groups, Church Expressions, Law and Grace, On Culture, On Him, On His Written Word, On Women, On the Poor, abortion, missional in practice. 74 Comments

We must remember the antithesis. Scripture always remembers that deep chasm between those seeking to honor God and those who hate him. But this has not been a part of contemporary pro-life rhetoric.
The unbelievers are destroying themselves in a frenzy of child-murder and fruitless sodomy. Let them go. These are hard words. But Christians must [...]

10 Dec

Life is the Only Choice: David McDonald

Posted by molleth in Abusive Groups, Church Expressions, Conservative Christian-ism, Making Me Think, On Culture, On Him, On Politics, On Women, On the Poor, Violence or Pacifism, abortion, emerging/missional, missional in practice, politics/state issues. 24 Comments

I see that spending time on David McDonald’s website will occupy most of my internet surfing* this weekend. What an interesting story. Actually, okay, ”interesting” seems a little understated. A man who’s fathered aborted babies, who was active in the gay community, who’s passionately writing about his love for Christ, and more than a few apologetics-style [...]

6 Dec

When God Leaves The Broken Behind: Biblical Patriarchy’s Biggest Problem

Posted by molleth in Abusive Groups, Complementarian/Egalitarian, Conservative Christian-ism, Law and Grace, Making Me Think, On Him, On His Written Word, On Women, Readers, Bloggers and Friends, Oh My!, Recovery from Pharisee-itus, Violence or Pacifism. 71 Comments

Edit 8:22 pm To Add: This is not a post that is talking soley about my personal experiences, though many of them may be reflected here. This is a post that is born of listening to many unfortunate stories of women, in real life and online, who have been chewed up and spit out by [...]

4 Dec

Men, Women, and the Bible

Posted by molleth in Complementarian/Egalitarian, Conservative Christian-ism, Making Me Think, On Culture, On Him, On His Written Word, On Women, Readers, Bloggers and Friends, Oh My!. 3 Comments

Mart De Haan, who some of you may have heard on radio or tv, is thinking about men, women, and the Bible. Coming from neither completarian or egalitarian position (which he mentions in another great post mulling over Women in High Places, as well as the recent, What About Women Elders?), he does a fantastic job of explaining how one can draw [...]

2 Dec

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Wimp Girl is Going Away Now)

Posted by molleth in On Women, getting in shape. 22 Comments

There is a really nice athletic club right by my house. Why haven’t I done this earlier? I used to be athletic, way back when, but the advent of five children turned my belly into bread dough and my other muscles have slowly disappeared, a few resurfacing every year around greenhouse season (lifting all those baskets) and then disappearing [...]

25 Nov

Reflections on My First Sunday with a Woman in the Pulpit

Posted by molleth in Church Expressions, Complementarian/Egalitarian, Conservative Christian-ism, Faith and Gender Series, Making Me Think, On Him, On Women, parenting/family. 217 Comments

I’ve been attending a small Episcopal church in my area lately. This Sunday’s service was led by a deacon (which is what they call a person who has graduated from the Episcopal seminary program—they serve as a deacon for a year or two, and then are ordained as a priest. Correct me if I’m wrong, [...]