Two Marriage Trails – A Guest Post

I might as well be honest — I hardly feel qualified to write a guest blog in response to “How Embracing Patriarchal Marriage Cured My Anxiety.” After many years of “leading” in my complementarian marriage, my expert advice lends itself more towards what not to do than how to do it right. I am awakening […]

An Honest Review of White Knights & Reviling Wives

I recently finished reading Dr. David Edgington’s book on patriarchal marriage and the epidemic of marriages being destroyed by feminism. I realized by the very last chapter that I am really not the target audience for a book such as this. So I bear that in mind as I write this review. I eagerly purchased […]

How Embracing Patriarchal Marriage Cured My Anxiety

A Third Position? It was in 1988 that the term complementarianism was invented. A declaration on the differing biblical roles of men and women while also an affirmation of their equal worth and value, this concept was meant to be a response to the growing egalitarianism in the church. Patriarchy (literally “father rule”), the most […]

Tenth Yahrzeit for Joshua Zion

It was ten years ago on this day that my life was turned upside down. I was 18 weeks pregnant with a baby boy. We’d had an early ultrasound and were waiting until the 22 week scan to discover the gender. But I knew in my heart it was a baby brother for Noki. I’d […]

Release into the misunderstanding

There are six strong-minded women around my table, each of them beautiful, different, and a challenge to me every day in many ways. These are my daughters. They are the women I am molding for the generations that will come after me. Their voices desire to be heard, and they want their opinions to be […]

The peaceful fruit of righteousness

Hebrews 12:11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Being a person who wholeheartedly appreciates compassion, parenting my children into their young adult years has been fraught with some very painful moments. At multiple points […]

The Garden of God’s Planting

We lived through an extremely painful church split about a year ago. I am able to admit now that I entered a season of deep depression afterwards, and only as I’ve reflected and prayed have I come to a place of what I believe is peaceful acceptance, though gratitude for the pain it has caused […]

Let us not grow weary of doing good

This benediction comes to us from the book of Galatians as Paul exhorts believers to be mindful that they sow to the Spirit and thus reap life. We will reap a good harvest in due season if we are diligent and do not give up.

Hitherto hath the Lord helped us

“Twenty years or seventy, and yet, hitherto hath the Lord helped us! Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea, in honor, in dishonor, in perplexity, in joy, in trial, in triumph, in prayer, in temptation, hitherto hath the Lord helped us! We delight to look […]

Caramel drinks and reading books

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglas There is an ache of sadness to the goodbyes I must make to the books and materials I’ve now been privileged to use with all seven of my children. I have caught myself multiple times in the past months thinking, “I should […]