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What Does Tim LaHaye Have to Do with Doulas?

I have a new post up at Christianity Today’s women’s blog–her.meneutics–about the role of the labor doula, why Medicaid may soon pay for doula care, and why Christians should care. Here’s a sample: At one time, evangelical Christians gave hearty support to “natural childbirth”: before Tim LaHaye was famous for Left Behind, he was well-known [...]

In Praise of Audiobooks

Unless you have a lot of household help, or a large family of unusually capable children, I’m betting that there are at least some mindless drudge tasks that you must do on a daily or weekly basis, some of which you put off repeatedly because you just hate doing them. Some tasks–ironing, laundry-folding, Nordic-Tracking (ha!)–can be [...]

Review And Giveaway of ‘Eat With Joy’

Rachel Held Evans has a review of my book and of Shauna Niequist’s book Bread and Wine at her blog today…and she’s hosting a giveaway in which three winners will receive a copy of each book! So check out her post here and comment by this afternoon (Friday, April 19) at 3pm EST for a chance [...]

The Joy of Ranking High on the Food Chain.

  My kids are proud of me for having written a book, especially when I showed them that their names are mentioned in the acknowledgements. Every time we read a prayer out of my book before eating, they’ll say, “that’s a good one, Mom!” It’s sweet, no doubt about that. And the other day one [...]

Edith Schaeffer and Biblical Womanhood

So I know it’s been out for a while, but I finally got around to reading Kathryn Joyce’s Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, which I found fair, well-researched, and illuminating. In it she names Edith Schaeffer–rightly, I think–as one of the people responsible for the ideal that women shape society via the home, an [...]

I’ll Meet You In The Place Where the Stuffed Kitties Are Real

Mrs. S. died a few months ago. She was 92, although woe betide you should you have mentioned that fact to her; she maintained to the end that she was 91. And who are we to argue? She also maintained that the stuffed cats in her room were real. This was not actually a point [...]

Four Reviews of “Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food”

I don’t mean to be so book-promo-oriented, but it really makes my dad happy to read positive reviews of my new book and I like to make my dad happy. Because why wouldn’t I want to make him happy? Just look at the stuff he creates and sends to my kids? (This is only the [...]

Thinking of My Friends

We’re back safe and sound from our trip to South Africa, but my mind and heart are very busy pleading to God for mercy for my dear friend Shelley, whose husband went missing during a solo hike on Skye (in Scotland.) If you are a praying person, please offer a prayer for Oliver and Shelley [...]

Some Kind Words

I’m anticipating a few days of limited internet access, so don’t be alarmed if this space stays quiet for a bit. (You can always peruse the archives. See? I’ve even organized the recipes and the ‘skinny toys’ posts for you!) Meanwhile, other people have had some good words to say about my book that I’d [...]

Mom: Comfort Where There is No Other Comfort

It’s my mom’s birthday today, and I’m 8,000 miles away from her. But it doesn’t feel that far, because my mom calls or emails me every day. And unlike those ungrateful children in Rent (remember Rent!?) I don’t screen my calls and roll my eyes when it’s my mom. Come to think of it, I’m [...]