It’s fascinating to watch yo-yo parenting trends come and go, but not always so fascinating to see how they affect children. Overhearing a young mom recently inspired me to consider …

Parenting sure has changed a lot since I was a kid, and most definitely since my parents were kids. Listening to my father tell stories from his childhood (he was …

As my daughter slogs through another fraction problem, I explain it one more time, and she asks me when she’ll use it again. I assure her (read: repeat what other …

The question of having children, fertility, birth control, which I fear, too few Christians have really wrestled over, is not about combing through Scripture to find all the evidence for …

Well, I’ve been told it’s one of the best motherhood books and since I still read this daily devotional myself to lift me out of the trenches and completely renew my …

Morning bible reading–check. Family worship–check. Church on Sunday–check. I think these activities are the under-girding of the Christian life and are needful and good. But I don’t think they are …

There is always another floor to sweep, another closet to arrange, the yard to mow, the thing to repair. We are never done, but we keep working like we think …

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about something a (Christian) commenter said on a recent post, “Learning to Think Rightly About Birth Control“: “I really struggle with labeling the …

Do you ever look around and wonder where the outstanding men and women of the younger generation are?  Do you ever read historical biographies and find the young, upright characters …

Type A. Dreamer. Visionary. Whatever you call it, I’m one of those. Are you? (Long lines kill you a little inside. Patience: not your super power. To everything there is a purpose. …

“We avoid saying things that might make people feel uncomfortable”, the pastor said.  Which is why Sandy loves one of the fastest-growing churches in her area.  She visits both campuses, …

Merry Christmas from the Crawfords! Merry Christmas to all you sweet, precious ladies and friends across blog land! I apologize for being so quiet here lately. It’s simply a busy, …

It’s no secret…if you have children at home, especially if they’re together all day, you deal with a certain amount of wrong attitudes and strife.  (If you don’t, email me …

The older I get, the more I realize how “against the grain” living the Christian life is.  Against the culture’s grain, and even against the grain of my flesh. We have …