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Jennie Chancey | December 27, 2011
This is a wonderful post I just discovered this evening: We all know her. She is the woman who has it all together. She has the love of 1 Corinthians 13 down pat and she never falters. She always smiles at her husband and is his constant encouragement. She is gentle and kind and practices [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 27, 2011
From Mark Steyn over at National Review Online: We now live in Elisabeth’s world — not just because technology has caught up with the Deity and enabled women in their 50s and 60s to become mothers, but in a more basic sense. The problem with the advanced West is not that it’s broke but that [...]
Stacy McDonald | December 23, 2011
Originally published on December 20, 2011 Last night, James and I were contemplating the loss of our sweet friend, Denise Sproul. We know that while Denise is experiencing unimaginable joy in the presence of our Savior, her husband and children still have a difficult road ahead learning to live life without this precious woman of [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 23, 2011
Last week, the Duggar family (20 Kids and counting) made headlines when they held a funeral service and shared photos of their stillborn 19 week-old baby. Here’s why I think it was right, and important for them to show their child to the world. Our culture is fighting against itself- on one hand, we tell [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 13, 2011
I have been reading through J.R. Miller’s Homemaking lately, and I must say that it is one of the most poetically written books on the function of the home that I have ever read. The words in it are precious, and it makes my heart swell to feel the attitude of love this book was [...]
Mrs. Eva H. | December 12, 2011
I first noticed it on the entertainment pages of CNN. I keep up with showbiz, because I work with teens, and whether we want to admit it or not, current culture has a huge influence on them. Since we can’t lock them up, it’s better to teach them to interpret and put things in a [...]
Sarah L. Bryant | December 12, 2011
What a beautiful season we have been given, as daughters and sisters at home, to serve others through the resources God has given us. Ecclesiastes reminds us of the brevity of each season in chapter three, verse one: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” We are [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 12, 2011
A great illustration of why “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” makes for happier marriages: An item about generosity in marriage is getting some play on the New York Times Well blog today. Tara Parker- Pope reports on the 2011 State of Our Unions report just out from the National [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 11, 2011
The health benefits of child-bearing continue to pile up: Kathy Ostrowski reports in the Kansans for Life blog on a recent National Public Radio Morning Edition program featuring Science editor Robert Krulwich and his explosive report about “fetomaternal microchimerism.” According to Krulwich there is increasing evidence that “when a woman has a baby, she gets [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 7, 2011
What is the enduring legacy of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique? First, Friedan helped destroy the American family – driving a wedge between husband and wife by demonizing the position of housewives as domestic slaves and grossly romanticizing working outside the home. Friedan’s hagiographic biographer Daniel Horowitz even noted that Friedan offered a distorted vision of [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 7, 2011
I think this post has gone viral in the last 24 hours. It’s just plain common sense, but I can’t even count how many times people have asked us how on earth we can afford to have “so many” children. If every child cost us $700-1000 a month, then, yes, we might be in trouble [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 7, 2011
Michelle Duggar has a great post up over at Parentables: There are a lot of reasons why serving the community is important to me, but one of them has to do with my father. His father died when he was 4 years old and my father’s mother had four babies all under the age of [...]
Kim Brenneman | December 7, 2011
Memories of traditions are part of who we are as people. When a time of day comes around, a season or a holiday we have expectations for good things to happen. We want to relive a time in life. A deep part of us remembers something that fills us with love and hope. As mothers [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 6, 2011
This is an excellent piece that digs down to the fundamentals. We get a lot of funny comments from readers who think we believe women are inferior, must kowtow to all men, should remain uneducated, etc., etc., ad nauseum. Here’s the plain truth, demonstrating that the shoe is (sadly) on the other foot in our [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 6, 2011
From the Telegraph online: Having four or more babies may be good for you, research has shown, as mothers of large families were less likely to die of a stroke…. Research involving 1300 women in California suggested those who had four or more children were one third less likely to due from cardiovascular disease. The [...]
