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How Reading The Excellent Wife Affected Me Personally

The Excellent Wife is a horribly depressing book to read. It was profoundly heavy and sad. When I started writing these onesheets, they didn’t really affect me that much. Most of the books I was going to be reading were ones I had read already, or were ones I had read...

Problems with The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace: A Review

ONE OF THE THINGS WE’RE PASSIONATE ABOUT ON THIS BLOG IS MAKING SURE THE SELF-HELP AND RELATIONSHIP ADVICE IN THE EVANGELICAL WORLD IS HEALTHY. Over the last few years, our team has surveyed over 32,000 people, measuring how certain teachings common in the evangelical...

The Journey of Deconstruction Often Takes Time: How Not to Get Polarized

When we change our minds, we rarely do it all at once. Over the last decade, Keith and I have changed our minds about a lot of things. But we've done it at different rates, and it's been messy.  We're pretty much at the same place today, but in some areas he beat me...

Let’s Talk Manifestation Theology False Marriage Teaching

You can’t honor your husband into greatness, people. Do a thought experiment with me today.  Imagine that you had recently moved to Louisiana, and you hadn’t made a lot of friends  yet. Your kids had been playing with some kids down the street who went to a church...
Should Marriage Make You Holy or Happy?

Should Marriage Make You Holy or Happy?

Is marriage primarily about teaching you to be selfless and to grow like Jesus through suffering? I hope you would all say a resounding, “no!” We know that God thinks of marriage for our benefit–our emotional benefit, not just our character-transforming benefit. He...

He’d Die for You. But Will He Do the Dishes?

He’d Die for You. But Will He Do the Dishes?

"The husband has to be prepared to die for his wife." One of the most bizarre arguments defending men being in authority over women is the idea that one day, he may have to take a bullet for you. A husband has to be prepared to die for his wife, but God doesn’t ask...

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