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November 2016

November 16, 2016

The Bravery of Glennon Doyle Melton–Part Two

So yesterday I got through half my thought. To recap, Glennon Doyle Melton recently announced...

November 15, 2016

The Bravery of Glennon Doyle Melton–Part One

I mentioned in our podcast yesterday the tragic downfall of Glennon Doyle Melton. I would...

October 2016

October 20, 2016

Trump Mansplains Hillary

Second Verse same as the First....sorry, I've been wanting to say that for three whole...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Feminism and Disrespect: Can I Please Have Someone Else to Vote For

I don't really want to think/write about politics at all any more. However, the debate...

September 10, 2016

Saturday on the What Should I Wear Links

Good Moaning. A little podcast for your Saturday. This week we go on and on...

September 09, 2016

Purity Culture, Lena Dunham, and Me

I tried to suffer through a thirty second Google search of Purity Culture yesterday, after...

September 08, 2016

The Female Body: Rachel Held Evans and Lena Dunham

As I've been slapping paint around and filling my lungs with dust and anxiety (school...

August 2016

August 27, 2016

Saturday on the Book and Marriage Links

Podcast this week is a scintillating discussion of how to get your wife to stop...

August 20, 2016

Saturday on the Parenting and Marriage Links

This week's Podcast is all about parenting, men's strength, and how to get your husband...

August 13, 2016

Saturday on the Marriageable Links

The usual scintillating podcast in which we entirely skip over the Olympics and take up...

August 11, 2016

Happy Anniversary to Me

Thought I'd update and repost this from last year, since it's all still true and...

June 2016

June 06, 2016

Bits and Broken Pieces

It's so great to wake up late and find that all the children are still...

May 2016

May 12, 2016

The Laughing Shame of Husband-Shaming

Ever one or two minutes behind the latest "thing", I only discovered yesterday, for the...

May 07, 2016

Saturday on the Complementary Links

Ooo, there was a snatch of sun....oop, it's gone. What a rainy week we've had....

May 02, 2016

Rain, Links, Dead-naming, Check your Outrage

So. Much. Rain. Didn't realize it was actually morning because of all the gray and...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Married Sex: It Can Save Your Life

I perhaps touched an angry and inflamed nerve last week, when I suggested, after reading...

January 2016

January 20, 2016

A New Moral: Minimalism

I have a growing percolating interest in the whole Minimalism thing. For starters, I have...

January 07, 2016

Men and Women Warring in the Church

I am mostly caught in the meme of writing about men and women in marriage--how...

January 06, 2016

Humility: It Works Every Time It’s Tried

I was combing through the Internet looking for something to be angry about (that's just...

December 2015

December 15, 2015

How Do I Look: In Which I Think a lot More about Caitlyn Jenner

Caitlyn Jenner, that beacon of femininity and gorgeous lips, apologized just now (that is, I...

October 2015

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 18, 2015

Is Trump Human

I didn't watch the debate but I was forced to endure a couple of clips after,...

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...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

New Every Morning

Ah, the gentle early morning sound of children arguing. It's like a brisk cup of...

June 04, 2015

Giving and Receiving

Matt was away for a couple of days. I would have said before but I...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

Wordy Wednesday: broken Christians

I try to stay away from news I don't want to know about, when at...

May 05, 2015

And There Were Hats

I was wildly blogging yesterday, because, well, if I didn't, something terrible might happen. And...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Tear it Down

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

March 2015

March 27, 2015

It’s Not Your Boat

Matt, who wakes up much earlier than I, sent me this nice article to catapult...