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October 2015

October 28, 2015

Sola Scriptura for Life and the Church

Welcome back to Anne's definitive guide to the Solas of the Reformation, cough. And some...

October 27, 2015

Sola Gratia for the Ordinary Christian

Yesterday I kicked off a little fun series about the Reformation, which feast always coincides...

October 26, 2015

Celebrating the Reformation

Some lovely reader of this blog asked last week why I, or anyone in general,...

October 21, 2015

The Law for the Child and the Mother

My new reign of terror kicked off reasonably well yesterday. It helps when the place...

October 14, 2015

The Listicle: The Perfect List of Happiness

Did you know that HuffPo has a happiness page? I just discovered it, trolling as...

October 08, 2015

The Numbering of Wisdom

Home safely, by the grace and mercy of God, and about to leap up and...

October 06, 2015

A Grief Observed

We've had this spot of air travel so as to be able to be under...

October 02, 2015

No Shame: Beauty for the Modern Woman

[Still haven't sorted out my ability to put in links. Need to generally go through...

October 01, 2015

Shame, Beauty and the Gospel

I'm embroiled once more in that portion of Exodus--the fashioning of the Ark and the...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

What a Shame: Silence, Women, the Church

Yesterday I said a couple of things about the task of the preacher and failed...

September 22, 2015

The Accidental Homeschool

Every morning, round about the time that I begin to type little nothings like this,...

September 14, 2015

Let the Children Come

Verily, verily I say unto you, it was a super long weekend. The kick off...

September 11, 2015

9/11, The Prayer of Jonah, and My Big Pan

It's been a long week. Thought it might be worthy of some scattered takes. One...

September 08, 2015

Do Pop By: the Boundaries of a Sane Life

After my tantrum of yesterday about how tired I am of the news and the...

September 03, 2015

Gold’s Gym, Sheol and Tullian: Why I’m Trying to be Grateful

The great tragedy of Tullian and his wife broke open this summer when we happened...

September 02, 2015

What Should I Expect?

Well, we survived our first day of school. I always like to torture myself before...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

When You Stumble and Fall

Part of the Anglican order of service, oh whatever, we don't say that, we say...

August 27, 2015

From Whence is Jesus Calling?

So yesterday I noticed, and how could I not, that the Jesus in Sarah Young'...

August 18, 2015

Discipline and Adventure

About a year ago, well, maybe more of a year and a half, in some...

August 13, 2015

Homeschooling from a place of Failure

Apparently we're falling falling falling to the summer plague. Discovered in alarm yesterday that the...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Rambling Around

This week I'm going to do All the Work. I say that every week but...

July 16, 2015

Books, Sin, and the Mountain I Can’t Climb

We had a really good time away. We payed our usual homage to the Alamo....

June 2015

June 15, 2015

The Preach Moment

Gladys and I missed church yesterday. I know this does happen periodically to the vast...

June 01, 2015

Monday Blech

Three nights of weird Nyquill induced nightmares have not improved my capacity to cope with...

May 2015

May 18, 2015

The Work of the Failure

Parents en route. House not clean. Bags not packed. Laundry not done. Panic level high....

May 13, 2015

Wordy Wednesday and Blog Love

I spent yesterday trying to write through the incredible loudness of many children playing in,...

May 08, 2015

The Worst Mother Ever

Mother's Day is Sunday, for those of you who have been lucky enough to escape...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Tear it Down

I happened to mention on Facebook last night that I cleaned the office. This was...

April 28, 2015

Blogging Confession

I have a great sorrowful well of guilt growing into an ever fatter slough of...

April 21, 2015

Winning

The modern way of things has lately been a source of irritating frustration for me,...