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December 2019

December 20, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Four Ways to Peace

I get not putting yourself forward. I get working on being content with what you...

December 13, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: In Which God Dispenses Chronic Pain

Growing up in an evangelical church, this logic is familiar to me. But I never...

December 06, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Contrasting Ideas of Gender Relations

Today, it is all too easy to imagine that in the past existed as some...

November 2019

November 22, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: What Does an Egalitarian Marriage Look Like?

There are bits of Katy's marriage that are a product of the sexist gender norms...

November 15, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Some Historical Exposition on 19th Century Womanhood

Katy doesn't aspire to be a wife and mother because she believes it is unbiblical...

November 08, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Katy and All the Insulting People

All Katy has to do is tell Mrs. Embury that she hasn't closed the door...

November 01, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: The Saga of Lucy

Katy did not need one more thing to worry herself about, throwing herself into pangs...

October 2019

October 25, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: The Fast Doctor

It has been one month. The only context Dr. Elliot has seen Katy in is...

October 18, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: All the Pretty Children

Seriously, what is this emphasis on which children are prettiest? It's just so disturbing and gross....

October 11, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Angsty Katy Is Angsty

It is 1834, and Katy has just turned 19 years old. Her schooling is over,...

October 04, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Exit Charley (in a Flurry of Letters)

This whole exchange feels so very modern---and so very teen love. This whole exchange would...

September 2019

September 27, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: A Year’s Probation

I would say "who said anything about engagement," except for when this book is set....

September 20, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: How Not to Talk About Boys

Why would Katy ever come to her mother again, about anything, after this outburst? Sure,...

September 13, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: In Which I Finally Like Katy

I remember wondering keenly about what heaven would be like, and noting to myself with...

September 06, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: To Calvinist or Not To Calvinist

I don't have a teenager yet, so I can't say whether I would say such...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Dueling Maternal Confessions

This week is an interesting one, because it's going to allow us to make a...

August 23, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Extremely Intimate Friendships

I have taken only one graduate class on sexuality and gender, and that single class...

August 16, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Brother Trouble

If this were Little Women, Katy would be petulant and rude, and then feel terrible about...

August 09, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Mother Knows Best

Remember how Katy decided in the last installment to say her prayers in bed? Despite...

August 02, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: Katy at Sixteen

When I perceive that one of my own children has a fault, I definitely do...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

Stepping Heavenward: New Book for Review

Stepping Heavenward was published just one year after Louisa May Alcott published Little Women, and the books share many...