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Jennie Chancey | March 31, 2010
This overhaul has been a long time coming, and we are so excited to introduce not only a brand new look but a totally new platform–one that will make it easier to keep LAF current. We are delighted to have on board a bevy of regular authors, most of whom have written off and on [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 31, 2010
To celebrate LAF’s re-launch, the Brookshire sisters of Noble Rose Press have donated two bundles of their beautiful “Daughters of History” paper dolls. Each bundle includes three sets of paper dolls, containing a total of six great women from history–women we love to hold up to our daughters as examples of godly, industrious femininity. They [...]
Kelly Reins | March 30, 2010
As she walks in the room, you pause your discussion, every attribute of her unique character diverting your attention. There is no particular point of emphasis in the picture she presents, though she is a purposeful arrangement of colors, contours, and textures. None of it is self-referential, but rather an introduction which piques your interest [...]
Jasmine Baucham | March 29, 2010
I think we all come to that point at one time or another in our “stay-at-home” journey. When we first decided to shift our focus, to turn our hearts towards home, we were enthusiastic and vibrant, purposeful and driven, meticulous and focused, bright eyed and bushy tailed. We had a grasp of the bigger picture: [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 29, 2010
Steve and Candice Watters have championed marriage for many years, encouraging Christians to pray for it, prepare for it, and look forward to it. Back in 2008, I reviewed Candice’s excellent book, Get Married, and I was thrilled to hear that she and her husband had written a follow-up. Start Your Family sounds like “start [...]
Kelly Crawford | March 28, 2010
I almost had to leave the auditorium, retreat to a quiet place, and process the profound revelation I had never seen that Mary Kassian revealed from that familiar passage in Genesis: “She shall be called ‘woman’ because she was taken out of man.” Genesis 2:23 We skip right over it and miss what God is [...]
Jennifer McBride | March 25, 2010
Over the past century Biblical womanhood has been under extreme fire from radical feminists and Marxists. In their attempts to annihilate the traditional, God-ordained family unit they have rightly understood that one of their top strategies must be not only to attack and destroy strong manhood, but to remove women from their rightful sphere of [...]
Jasmine Baucham | March 25, 2010
Hey! I was just wondering what you might say to someone who would say this: “The Bible says, ‘Go into all the world to preach the gospel,’ not, ‘go into all your house and preach the gospel.’” I’m just wondering. =) Hudson Taylor once said that “The Great Commission is not an option to be [...]
Kelly Crawford | March 25, 2010
“Who can find a virtuous wife? For her price is far above rubies.” Proverbs 31:10 Oh to be a virtuous wife! I know what she looks like, how she speaks, how she loves her husband, and yet, reaching through the ages, I can still feel the kindred curse of Eve’s desire to control…to know [...]
Mrs. June Fuentes | March 24, 2010
In all her glory, godly womanhood has been under attack since the beginning of time. Satan has unleashed a deceptively subtle and seductive assault against her that has permeated history,the present age and the future. The war has been waged, and the bloody spiritual battle that has attempted to strip biblical womanhood of all her [...]
Kelly Crawford | March 24, 2010
If I ponder it deeply enough, I am overwhelmed by God’s favor upon women, upon giving me the privilege and specific attributes needed to take part in the world-changing mission of home. It seems reasonable to me that Satan would have launched such an attack against the home, the family, motherhood and marriage. He knows, [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 23, 2010
We’ve had a lot of articles over the years dealing with the fundamental premises of feminism and with the feminist movement’s long war against motherhood. Recent articles in British papers have shown that younger women are turning away from the daycare solution their own mothers used and expressing a desire to stay at home with [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 23, 2010
LAF’s archives contain many articles about the declining fertility rate and the coming demographic winter as births in developed countries have plummeted. Carolyn Moynihan recently attended a two-day conference in Barcelona that was centered around the theme, Whither The Child? The Causes, Consequences and Responses to Low Fertility. Her comments bring forward a lot of [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 23, 2010
[Note: This article was voted a Reader Favorite on the "old" LAF, so we've moved it over to the new LAF! ~ Ed.] A LAF reader shared a link to a story about Michelle Obama quitting her high-paying job to support her husband’s run for the presidency and to serve as stay-at-home First Lady. While [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 23, 2010
[Note: This article was voted a Reader Favorite on the old LAF, so we've moved it to the new LAF! ~ Ed.] “So, what do you do?” The question is posed relentlessly. In other words, “What label have you given yourself to prove to the rest of the world that you are not a drain [...]
