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Jasmine Baucham | May 31, 2010
Lately, I have been convicted of a truth that I have long denied: I am sheltered. I know what you might be thinking. As a homeschool graduate, as an adult daughter living at home, as a Christian, this is a claim that I have been taught to deny. I do not live in a comfortably [...]
Kelly Crawford | May 29, 2010
To me, one of the most important jobs about being a mother and wife is the power we have to help form bonds between the members of our family. Not only does our attitude toward our job matter immensely (How do we view our role?), but to the extent that we are deliberate about making [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 29, 2010
Congrats to Renee S., winner of today’s drawing for the free skirt from The Modest Mom! To see the details of the drawing, click here to go to Random.org. Thanks to everyone for tweeting and posting about the giveaway!
Anna T | May 29, 2010
I sometimes hear stay-at-home mothers proudly saying that they “work just as hard as women who also have a job outside the home” or that “their days are as packed as anyone’s” and they have no time or space to breathe. I believe, however, that the point of our staying home isn’t to measure up [...]
Sandra King | May 27, 2010
On Saturday afternoon I was alone in the car with my honey for the first time in a week. We had just left the church, where our oldest daughter had just married, and we were on our way to the reception. (I will post about the ceremony later.) We were stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I [...]
Mrs. Parunak | May 26, 2010
It seems to me that a lot of conservative Christian women these days are suffering from a lack of vision. For many of us, things have begun to improve, but there’s been a lot of poison in our perspectives–a feeling that if we couldn’t do what the men were doing, then maybe God had nothing [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 26, 2010
Way back in 1977 (which, in our pop-culture world, is practically ancient history), George Gilder wrote the following prescient words: Crucial to the liberals’ dream of escape from family burdens is zero population growth. Because each individual no longer depends on his children to support him in old age, many observers seem to imagine that [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 24, 2010
I don’t know about any of y’all, but the last time I was pregnant, I came out of the maternity store with a shell-shocked look on my face. It seemed everything was suffocatingly tight, too short, or too plunging. Forget about being comfortable while pregnant–I was supposed to look “hot” or at least “in” with [...]
Kelly Crawford | May 20, 2010
“Keeping my home is only partly about cleaning, cooking and managing the affairs here. It is foremost about “keeping” in the sense of guarding. And what more important to guard than the united front that is my husband and me?” C.S. Lewis said, “We need to be reminded more than instructed.” Truer words could not [...]
Amy R | May 19, 2010
Like most of my generation, I came to marriage knowing nothing of how to keep a home and a husband. I could hang laundry and dust a coffee table. Beyond that, I was worthless as a homemaker and mother. My heart longed to be more and do better, but everywhere I looked was a sea [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 19, 2010
From Mercator.net: Here is a question that interests me a lot: Are we pushing too many high school graduates into university/college education? Recently on Mercatornet Thomas C Reeves suggested that we are. The New York Times last week discussed the same question, and the Wall Street Journal implied it with an opinion piece on graduate [...]
Jasmine Baucham | May 17, 2010
After I graduated high school in 2007, I was faced countless times with a very common question: “Where are you going to school?” College is such a cultural “coming of age” and a “rite of passage” that few ever considered the possibility that I would not be stepping onto a college campus sometime soon. They [...]
Kelly Crawford | May 11, 2010
Quite honestly, I don’t like the term “stay-at-home mom.” It testifies to the fact that there are moms who don’t stay at home, and I wish it didn’t have to be so. But there’s an enormous gulf now between “have to work” and “want to work.” The gulf was a complicated build, and now we [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 10, 2010
Have to admit I did a double-take when I saw a quote from this article and realized who wrote it (thanks, Candice, for the URL!): One significant, and enduring, effect of The Pill on female sexual attitudes during the 60′s, was: “Now we can have sex anytime we want, without the consequences. Hallelujah, let’s party!” [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 10, 2010
Every now and again, feminist thinking and the goals of feminism are demonstrated in the clearest terms and without varnish. An article in yesterday’s Washington Post about the 50th anniversary of the Pill is a perfect case in point: Forget the single girl and the sexual revolution. The pill was not anti-mother; it was for [...]
