Let's get real about Church life! Today we have some special guests on, the lovely ladies from Pastors' Wives Tell All! This is not the first time I've been on a podcast with them, but usually it's theirs. So this time they are joining me on my show to discuss the...
I’m finding the new trend of tradwife influencers rather distressing. You know those accounts--that hearken back the 1950s housewife, and espouse a life where the husband brings home the paycheque, makes the decisions, and is in authority of the wife, while she does...
"How do I talk to a woman about what she's wearing?" I've received a number of social media messages from women lately asking how to approach a woman about her clothing choices. In some cases it's been a work situation. In others a ministry situation. In several...
On the a vacation we took just over a decade ago, I started knitting a blanket. It was what knitters call a "sock yarn blanket", meaning that it's made from all the ends of balls you have after you've finished a pair of socks. For twenty years I've been knitting...
Do marriages need someone to be in charge? And what does it mean if you assume that they do? Last week Alistair Begg, a big speaker and theologian, posted this on social media:I could say so much about what's theologically wrong with this statement, but I'd encourage...
Sometimes it takes just one thought, one concept, to change everything in your marriage. Yesterday I shared the top 10 posts from 2021 that garnered the most comments and were the most talked about. But there's another category of posts I thought it would be important...
Downsizing sounds like a failure--we didn't live up to our dreams. Maybe we need to see it a different way! This month we're looking at doing marriage on hard mode--are we making marriage, and life, more difficult than it needs to be? And one of the biggest things...
Tomorrow will be the 25th anniversary of my son Christopher's death. Every year I like to write something about grief and honor him in some way, even if just to mention him or remember. I honestly am okay, I just get sad around this time of year.My oldest daughter...
Healthy teenagers learn how to set boundaries. Well, healthy PEOPLE learn how to set boundaries! And it's good to learn while we're still young. Rebecca and I are deep in the throes of writing our mother-daughter book combatting harmful teachings for girls in the...
What do you do when your husband hates going to the doctor--but he really needs to go? A lot of guys just hate seeing a physician. In fact, that's one of the reasons that researchers figure that married men live longer--their wives often push them to go, when...
What happens when women carry the mental load for the whole family? It can be exhausting! Last June, my series on the blog was on mental load and emotional labor, and how draining it is for women to have to remember everything and keep all details straight, and how...
Can you create Christmas traditions as a couple BEFORE you have kids? Absolutely! Or what about if you aren't planning on having kids, or can't have kids--or if your kids are with your ex-spouses for the holidays. Does that mean that Christmas can't be Christmas?...
As we're trying to understand emotional maturity, can we get a better picture of what authentic masculinity is? We talk a lot about toxic masculinity, and I don't think that's necessarily a healthy term. Many people fear that we're labelling the stuff that guys tend...
When did you officially feel grown up? I'm sure we all woke up this morning to a little bit of a fog that we weren't necessarily expecting. I didn't watch the election returns last night, and only tuned in at 7:15. I don't want to get political in this post, or in the...
We're in election season. We're in the middle of COVID. It's easy to feel depressed about the state of the world. I’ve been trying to cocoon, not pay attention to the news, not think about much of anything at all. I made the terrible mistake of putting up a political...