The Housewife Theologian

I like fun words. I love learning new words or rediscovering old ones to use in my vocabulary. So every Wednesday I will be posting a new word of the week, along with its definition. I challenge you to use it in conversation throughout the week so that it can sink into your normal rhetoric. It...

On our way to church last week, we stopped behind a car with this bumper-sticker: God recycles. He made man out of the dust. Really? That’s our witness? A cheesy idiom that will win over the environmentalists? Will it? Maybe they were environmentalist, chastising wastefulness. If this was the case...

Marriage To a Difficult Man , by Elisabeth D. Dodds (Audubon Press, 2004) My husband was a bit troubled when my friend, Dana, gave me this book along with Journey to Hell for my 30 th birthday. Despite the tricky title, this book recounts the wonderful marriage of Sarah and Jonathan Edwards. I love...

On my Confessions page, I mentioned that I finally broke down and joined Facebook at the same time I started my blog. It seemed pretty necessary for sharing my articles with friends and hoping they would share with their other friends. Also, the whole like button was such a mystery to me, but was...

This is a book that I was eager to read. I’ve had a very critical attitude about where technology is going, and how it is shaping us before I curmudgeonly surrendered to blogging and all (well, really only some of) its associated networking. Now that I confess to its necessities and benefits, I...

I like fun words. I love learning new words or rediscovering old ones to use in my vocabulary. So every Wednesday I will be posting a new word of the week, along with its definition. I challenge you to use it in conversation throughout the week so that it can sink into your normal rhetoric. It...

According to the American College of Sports Medicine, approximately 60% of well-meaning people who begin a workout routine give up. And then there’s a small percentage out of the 40% left, who encounter overtraining syndrome. Martha Pyron, Md., wrote an article about it for ACSM’s quarterly...

Girls Gone Wise , by Mary A. Kassian (Moody, 2010) Pre-Fall nakedness symbolized the purity and innocence of humans before God. Post-Fall nakedness symbolizes the inability of humans to make themselves presentable before Him. God did what Adam and Eve were unable to do. He covered them and made...

I seriously got back into a regular workout routine about two years ago. Having been raised in a family that values physical fitness, I have always lived a somewhat active life. However, in my thirties it became apparent that my body was not as obliging to my requests. It was time to get a little...

I like fun words. I love learning new words or rediscovering old ones to use in my vocabulary. So every Wednesday I will be posting a new word of the week, along with its definition. I challenge you to use it in conversation throughout the week so that it can sink into your normal rhetoric. It...