Mothers Who Read: Their Secrets
Everywhere I have lived, I have found continual delight in a rare type of person: the mother who reads. There are oodles […]
Philippa Pearce’s “Tom’s Midnight Garden”: Trading Time for Eternity
Carol Joyce Seid of Homeschool Made Simple suggested the book “Tom’s Midnight Garden” by Philippa Pearce. That was the first I’d heard […]
Lauren Southern’s Divorce Does Not Mean Traditional Marriage is Dangerous for Women
Lauren Southern is making the rounds on the blog and podcast circuit discussing her divorce. Her story is being held up by […]
Free Range Kids: The Difference Between Independent and Unsupervised
Writing last month about a Georgia mother arrested for letting her 10-year-old son walk less than a mile away from home, I […]
How to Improve Your Spouse: Some Principles
Having written on topics related to marriage, I sometimes receive criticism and sometimes requests for advice. Marriage advice is about as thorny […]
Living By Faith (Beyond the Theological Kind)
Years ago, I wrote about the need to take action in order to have hope. We think of hope, perhaps, firstly, as […]
The Best Books I Read in 2024
I had no intention of abruptly ending the year of blogging in mid-December on the subject of “rawdogging.” But the frenzy of […]
“Rawdogging”: We are So Uncomfortable with Risk-Taking Behavior We Can’t Even Let Men Do Nothing
When I first heard the phrase “rawdogging,” I involuntarily shuddered. I was reminded of the discovery of such horrors as “face riding” […]
Why are Mothers Angry?
I am afflicted by pangs of conscience following my negative review of “Screaming on the Inside.” I maintain that the book is […]
Forgetting How to Read, Forgetting How to Feel
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to […]