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Jennie Chancey | July 2, 2010
Sarah Mae at Like a Warm Cup of Coffee has started up a fantastic series dealing with several hot-button issues and common myths about biblical womanhood, family, children, etc. Here are some of the topics she has set to tackle (with the help of guest writers): Unique callings in Christ Putting women in a box/dictating [...]
Tiffany | June 26, 2010
When I attended a chapel during my Christian university’s week of gender reconciliation chapels, I found that many of the women on the panel had begun to consider the question of whether or not they experience oppression as women in their daily lives. One woman’s comment was particularly intriguing. She said, “Before coming to 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Anna T | May 1, 2010
The other day, while I was waiting in line at the doctor’s office, I happened to overhear the conversation of two young moms who were sitting right next to me. It caught my attention, not because of how unusual it was, but because it’s so very typical these days. “I pay so much for daycare,” [...]
Joy N | April 22, 2010
A cartoonist posted this in his blog a few days ago: You know what this is? It’s a sculpture by Blake Fall-Conroy, the Minimum Wage Machine. From the site: The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY [...]
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 [...]
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
[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
Some Biblical characters are so vivid it seems I know them personally. Acts 9 records the miraculous resurrection of Dorcas, also known as Tabitha. Through her kindness, Dorcas endeared herself to the church in Joppa. Every time I read the passage, it jumps off the page at me! The kinship I feel with Dorcas is [...]
