Today’s post on faith and parenting comes to us from one of my favorite bloggers, Micha Boyett. Micha, a stay-at-home mom from Texas, describes herself as “Southern Baptist nurtured,...
1. You’ve “pinned” more meals than you’ve made. 2. You’re pretty sure that slinkies are getting more treadmill time than you are. 3. Your explanation to your husba...
Our interview series continues today with “Ask a feminist...” “Feminism” is a lighting-rod word that is often maligned and often misunderstood. In fact, I find I am relu...
If I had to pick a favorite American writer, it would be Mark Twain, and if I had to pick a favorite scene from an American novel, it would be the one where his unlikely hero, Huckleberry Finn, accep...
Can you believe it’s been almost a year since we started our interview series? Over the past 11 months, we’ve featured an atheist, a pagan, a nun, a Mormon, a Mennonite, a Calvinist, an e...
It’s Monday, which means it’s time to continue our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be. As part of the series, we’re work...
If you think you’re too good to watch American Idol and have therefore not yet heard Joshua Ledet sing “It’s a Man’s World,” check out the video above. Why did su...
Today’s post on faith and parenting comes to us from the uber-talented Leena Tankersley. Leeana is the author of Found Art: Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places (Zondervan 2009), spiritual...
Esther Confronts Xerxesby Lindsey McCormack Remember our friend Jim LePage, whose Word series captured some of the most beautiful, compelling, bizarre, troubling, violent, and redemptive stories from...
I’ve had several requests to include “ask a Seventh-Day Adventist...” in our interview series, so today I am pleased to introduce J David Newman. David describes himself as an...
I can’t for the life of me recall what book I read it in, but I remember an author saying once that he raised his children to be wary of consumerism by teaching them to laugh at commercials.&nb...
So I confess that, perhaps unfairly, I felt some trepidation about inviting a pagan to participate in our interview series. But, after receiving over 100 questions from you last week, Jason Mankey ro...
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing stories of people’s church experiences—some inspiring, some frustrating, some encouraging, some heartbreaking. (Read Jessica Goudeaus church...
It’s Monday, which means it’s time to continue series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be. As part of the series, we’re working our way th...
Best Mom in the Whole World:Robin Held (pictured above with the best dad in the whole world)Mom is a third-generation elementary school teacher whose reputation as the best 4th grade teacher at Dayto...
Today’s faith and parenting post comes to us from the talented Beth Woolsey. Beth is the writer and humorist behind the Five Kids Is A Lot of Kids blog. She has been described as “optimis...
Wednesday’s post, “How to win a culture war and lose a generation,” shattered every record in my blogging history. In two days, the site received over 105,000 visits, and readers sh...
When asked by The Barna Group what words or phrases best describe Christianity, the top response among Americans ages 16-29 was “antihomosexual.” For a staggering 91 percent of non-Christ...
Today we have an unusual guest as part of our popular “Ask a...” series. Jason Mankey is a Pagan writer, blogger, and lecturer, and an initiated Wiccan (one of the biggest traditio...
Today I’ve been busy preparing for a Tuesday meeting with Thomas Nelson in which we will discuss marketing and publicity strategies for A Year of Biblical Womanhood. (Book releases October 30.)...
May is a month for finishing! So a big congratulations to those of you wrapping up semesters, grading those last few papers, graduating, or embarking on a new adventure this week. Around the Bl...
For our faith and parenting series today we are joined by the incredibly talented Michelle DeRusha. Michelle lives in Nebraska with her husband Brad and two boys—contemplative Noah and re...
You guys asked some really tough questions of Scott Sabin for “Ask an environmentalist,” but Scott rose to the occasion with some wise, winsome, and informative responses. Scott is ...
Russell Moore is concerned that too many evangelical marriages are complementarian in name only. The dean of the School of Theology and senior vice president for academic administration at Sout...
People often ask me for book recommendations suitable for personal devotion or group study—you know, something challenging but not too controversial, something that stretches the heart and mind...
Yes, this t-shirt actually exists. No, I didnt make it. Some women run for public office. Others devote their lives to activism on behalf of their sex. Still others launch non-profit org...
As you may have noticed, I’ve been thinking a lot about church lately. (See 15 Reasons I Left Church, 15 Reasons I Returned to The Church, and Better Conversations Between Churched and Un-Churc...
As part of our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, we’re working our way through a stack of fantastic books about how to read the Bible. We’ve ...
Around the Blogosphere... Best Video:Lotte Time Lapse: Birth to 12 Years in 2 min. 45 Best Series: Kathy Escobar with “Rebuilding After Deconstructing” Best Analysis: Timothy Go...
Today’s post on faith and parenting comes to us from my friend Elizabeth Esther. As you may remember, Elizabeth and I went to Bolivia with World Vision together. There, while clinging to one an...
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