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Jennie Chancey | March 27, 2011
An excellent commentary from Kathryn Lopez appeared a couple of weeks ago, but it didn’t make it through the newsfeed until now. Very much worth pondering: Congress, for its part, held an unprecedented vote in the House in February to end funding of Planned Parenthood. It’s not a permanent or final vote; it was attached [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 27, 2011
From Mercatornet: Family structure and religion are factors that significantly influence whether a woman has an unwed pregnancy, a new report from the Family Research Council shows. Patrick Fagan and Scott Talkington of the FRC’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute (Marri) analysed data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and found that one [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 26, 2011
From Doug’s blog: This is not a story that the feminists want you to hear. Despite their appeals for a woman’s choice, the idea that an “intelligent, educated woman” would give up a flourishing practice in family medicine, to seek the life of a “submissive wife” and stay-at-home mom, is repugnant to the feminist ideal. [...]
Jasmine Baucham | March 26, 2011
“I’m not like other girls, who -” I always want to stop a sentence dead in its tracks when it starts that way. Because I can guess what might come afterwards: I don’t like frilly clothing. I don’t like the color pink. I don’t scream when I see a bug (or a mouse, or any [...]
Kelly Reins | March 25, 2011
Honest mistakes happen all the time. Sinful opposition confronts us just as often. We stand there threatened facing potential consequences and loss brought upon us by others. We’re perhaps fearful. This is not what we had planned in the least. Damage control must be done. It’s our test by Providence not to be passed on [...]
Sherrin Drew | March 24, 2011
Are you passionate about passing on your faith and vision to the next generation? Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd and Margy Tripp is written to help you achieve that goal. Tedd’s prior book, Shepherding a Child’s Heart, focuses on reaching the heart through biblical correction. Instructing a Child’s Heart focuses on providing children with [...]
Tiana Krenz | March 24, 2011
The Wall Street Journal published a thought-provoking article this weekend, wondering out loud as to why today’s mothers-of-teenagers allow their daughters to dress and act like the Paris Hiltons of the world. With surprising honesty and clarity, the author admits that feminism might be to blame: “We are the first moms in history to have [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 21, 2011
Well, after a year of scratching our heads over the errors in the Archives, we’ve finally been able to nail them down with the software developer, who tweaked the code to get things working again. That means you now have access to over 2500 older LAF articles and can use the search box to find [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 21, 2011
From Robin Phillips: Two weeks-ago-Tuesday was the one hundredth anniversary of “International Women’s Day”, which occurs every year on March 8. On this day, various organizations throughout the world sponsor celebrations which, in the words of the Wikipedia, “[range] from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, [...]
Mrs. Marino | March 21, 2011
“Now I have to give you this kiss (pointing to his thumb), and now I have to give you these kisses.” He points to each little finger and kisses me twice for each finger. My heart bursts forth with love. I’m so thankful for God’s grace. The little reminders of His grace that really aren’t so [...]
Tanya Duarte | March 21, 2011
Only ten years ago I would have thought the magazine Crowned With Silver was “behind the time” and “too old-fashioned” for my tastes. Now, however, I find it a source of nurturing to my God-given feminine role as wife and mother! When I married my husband 12 years ago, I had no idea what marriage [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 10, 2011
This has been making the rounds on the Internet and was a source of discussion on the Passionate Housewives Desperate for God Facebook page last week. There are so many things going on here that it’s hard to comment on them all, but Mariette Ulrich on Mercatornet has done a good job: Salon, the Woman’s [...]
Mrs. Eva H. | March 7, 2011
Well, isn’t that an intriguing title? And maybe not exactly what you expect at LAF. After all, are we not often accused of “living in the past” of “clinging to the past,” even? So what could an article like this be doing here? Now, let me start by saying that this is not an article [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 7, 2011
Jasmine Baucham posted a wonderful piece over on Raising Homemakers: Because the way I’ve ordered my life is counter-intuitive to most Americans, those days when I’m tired, overwhelmed, or even a tad bit frustrated seem almost to condemn me. Why is that so? Why, if I was pulling a full course load at Columbia while [...]
sarahelisabeth | March 7, 2011
I have a recurring, nasty thought that I’m really a lousy Mamma. I know it is a bit depressive and probably isn’t true, but it has recurred persistently over the last 17 years. Why today? The baby wouldn’t be quiet for a two-minute silence for Remberance Day, the four-year-old had lost her enthusiasm for Duplo [...]
