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Stacy McDonald | June 20, 2010
If you haven’t read Part 1 of The Beauty of Chastity begin HERE What is biblical beauty? Biblical beauty and how it pertains to chastity is often misunderstood. We seem to see one extreme attitude or the other. While one side appears to obsess over outward beauty, vainly (and often carelessly) taking pride in this [...]
Carmon Friedrich | June 19, 2010
The nomad and the anarchist accuse the domestic ideal of being merely timid and prim. But this is not because they themselves are bolder or more vigorous, but simply because they do not know it well enough to know how bold and vigorous it is. –G.K. Chesterton Have you ever sat too long in the [...]
Tiana Krenz | June 19, 2010
Be careful which sins you allow yourself to think you don’t have a problem with… I tend to think of myself as not a covetous person. After all, I don’t crave fancy cars, high end jewelry, or a huge mansion. I certainly don’t need the latest gadgets, the newest computer, or designer jeans. But I have [...]
Kelly Crawford | June 19, 2010
(Be sure to check the end for a special for LAF readers!) The kitchen is one of the most flexible areas of finance to a stay at home mom. As we consider our many duties at home, we need to understand the importance of balancing resourcefulness with variety and nutrition–a task that calls for serious [...]
Jasmine Baucham | June 18, 2010
“The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.” ~Simone de Beauvoir Someday, I would like to get married to a man who I can follow to the ends of the earth as he follows full-heartedly after Christ. Someday, I would like [...]
Kelly Crawford | June 17, 2010
For women already working who would like to come home, it’s always recommended that they do a financial analysis of what they are currently spending. Calculate: gas money daycare expense lunch money snacks eating out money (which you always do more of because you have less time to prepare meals) the amount spent on convenience [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 16, 2010
I wrote a review of Candice Watters’s excellent book two years ago, but I want to reprint it here on the new site, since Moody sent me a copy to give away! To enter the drawing, please tweet or post a link to this review, then come back here and leave a comment with the [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 16, 2010
We love reading Ann Voskamp’s tender, beautiful words. She always writes from the heart and with humility and love. This piece on marriage is a great jumping-off place if you’ve never read Ann’s blog (just be warned–you can get immersed quickly and spend half a night joyfully drowning in her beautiful prose!): On the fourth [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 16, 2010
A thought-provoking piece from the folks at Mercatornet: It’s not exactly news, but a report from Princeton University and the Brookings Institution highlights the well-established trend of “delayed adulthood” as people in their twenties prolong their education and fail to reach the milestones of marriage and parenthood. Actually, this could be more a delay in [...]
Kelly Crawford | June 16, 2010
Aren’t we spiritually schizophrenic, just like the psalmist, David? One minute we’re shaking our fist at God, the next, we’re repenting and praising Him for his sovereignty. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” He so often echoes the cry of my heart. If you will look at the chapter just before this [...]
Anna T | June 15, 2010
After reading and discussion in real life as well as online, I was inspired to write some more on the subject of working from home and developing our talents from home. As someone who has worked from home in the past, for periods of more or less intensity, I have learned that, while working from [...]
L. Rose | June 15, 2010
Our homeschool experience began in 1989 with a cute, wiggly five year old kindergartner. In the late eighties homeschooling was unusual. In 1992, I became a single mother and continued to homeschool. While homeschooling was uncommon at that time, doing it solo was unheard of. There were those who meant well by telling me to [...]
Anonymous | June 15, 2010
Some time ago, a mutual friend shared with me some tragic news about a girl (I will call her Hannah) whom I had been friends with but had lost track of in recent years as our paths had diverged. I knew Hannah to be a committed Christian. She had graduated from a prominent conservative Christian college, was extremely involved in her church, was passionate about evangelism and service to the poor, and was in an active Bible study with our mutual friend when she, Hannah, announced that she was expecting her boyfriend to propose within the month. What’s so tragic about that? you ask. What’s tragic is that Hannah, my Christ-loving sister, was planning to wed a non-believer.
Jennie Chancey | June 13, 2010
Our good friend Doug Phillips over at Vision Forum just posted this commentary (the blockquote at the top is what he’s responding to): There are some disabled infants born with conditions so severe that doctors don’t really try to keep them alive. They allow them to die essentially through benign neglect. But that can be [...]
Stacy McDonald | June 13, 2010
Legalism is a loaded word; but, as far as I can tell, there are three ways it is used, two are legitimate usages and one is just handy for shutting someone down. All Fred has to do when losing a debate on a biblical topic is accuse you of legalism and the conversation is closed. With fear and trembling, many back off—and Fred is the winner. Or is he?
