If I Believe Jesus Has Forgiven My Sins, Why Do I Still Feel Guilty?
Lydia Brownback
We trust that we’ve been forgiven because Christ paid for all our sins when he died on the cross, but the memory isn’t erased, and the effects on us and on those we hurt can linger long.
The Purpose and Limits of a Husband’s Authority
Jonathan Leeman
How do we unpack the idea of a husband’s headship? We look to Christ and the church: “The head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God” (1 Cor. 11:3).
Podcast: The State of Women’s Ministry in the US (Courtney Doctor and Joanna Kimbrel)
Courtney Doctor and Joanna Kimbrel delve into the key questions and concerns that arise in women's ministry, touching on practical issues like how to get started and how to encourage discipleship.
7 Things I Prayed for My Husband through 30 Years of Ministry
Lois Krogh
Marriage to a man in any particular profession has particular difficulties. Over the years, I have learned to pray for the needs of my husband that are distinct to his calling as a pastor.
5 Myths about Gender Identity
Samuel D. Ferguson
While we should be careful not to reduce gender to cultural stereotypes, we must realize that uprooting gender from biology effectively kills it. If gender can be anything, it ends up being nothing.
Does the Gospel Need a Feminist Rescue?
Rosaria Butterfield
Men and women and children are to conduct themselves in accordance with a pattern. A woman’s personal gifts do not take priority over the design pattern that God established in the garden.
How Puritan Women Debunk 3 Puritan Stereotypes
Jenny-Lyn de Klerk
Puritan stereotypes—which go all the way back to the 17th Century—are still going strong. It almost seems like no matter how many solid scholarly books are written about them, the stereotypes will live on.
Podcast: Sexual Confusion, Cultural Lies, and Our Christian Witness (Rosaria Butterfield)
Rosaria Butterfield responds to many of the most common claims and arguments that we often hear related to gender and sexuality today. She also answers tough questions that many of us may encounter.
Motherhood Isn’t What I Expected
Katie Faris
Motherhood isn’t what I expected. It hasn’t delivered all that I hoped it would, and instead it’s given me some things I never asked for. What about you?
Podcast: Why the Church Needs Spiritual Mothers (Susan Hunt)
Susan Hunt reflects back on decades spent working to nurture the practice of Christian mentoring and shares her personal experience of mentoring others and being mentored herself.
Why Elisabeth Elliot Changed Her Beliefs about Finding God’s Will
Lucy S. R. Austen
Elliot had left Ecuador with a changing understanding of God’s will. Circumstances had forced her to look long and hard at her beliefs about God’s guidance.
Podcast: The Life and Legacy of Elisabeth Elliot (Lucy S. R. Austen)
Lucy S. R. Austen shares insights into Elisabeth Elliot’s missionary work in Ecuador and how her writing in the years that followed impacted thousands of believers around the world.
This Day in History: The Death of Elisabeth Elliot
Lucy S. R. Austen
Elliot had weaknesses and strengths, she got things right and she got things wrong, and she did not necessarily know which were which. Nor do we. We are too small to see very far.
Is Your View of Women Aligned with Your Theology?
Paul David Tripp
A body of Christ is healthiest when women are esteemed and their gifts highly valued, not just in the home but also in the church.
Children Are a Blessing (Even If You Don’t Feel That Way)
Gloria Furman
Our wayward feelings about motherhood—whether we are prone to glorying in it or growing bitter about it—need to consider the related truth that our Father has given his Son a heritage.
How Studying the Bible Changed My Life (Women of the Word Episode 1)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin discusses how believers can learn to study the Bible with both their hearts and their minds and ultimately love the God who it points to.
How a Husband Shows Honor to His Wife as the “Weaker Vessel”
Chad Van Dixhoorn,
Emily Van Dixhoorn
We live at a time that does not really know how to deal with weakness. This is a dog-eat-dog world. What time do we really have for those who are weak?
Lady Brilliana Harley: Four Hundred Love Letters
Jenny-Lyn de Klerk
I learned a lot from reading Harley. But I think one of the most valuable parts of studying her letters, at least for me, was that they showed me how important a simple note of encouragement can be.
Anne Bradstreet: Doubting Thousands of Times
Jenny-Lyn de Klerk
The reason I can even have times of doubt and resolution and restored happiness is only because I am alive, because someone created me and is keeping me (and my faith!) going.
Mary Rich: Turning Pain into Power
Jenny-Lyn de Klerk
It is often our deepest pains that inspire and motivate us to do the greatest good we can do in our lifetimes.
How Puritan Women Are Misunderstood Today
Jenny-Lyn de Klerk
You don't have to agree with Puritan women, but it does mean that you have to allow them to tell their own stories in their own words before you start to interpret them for yourself.
Lucy Hutchinson: My Favorite Puritan Woman
Jenny-Lyn de Klerk
According to Puritans like Lucy Hutchinson, loving God and godliness did not mean hating other people, either openly or secretly.
Agnes Beaumont: Making Sense of the Nonsensical
Jenny-Lyn de Klerk
Puritans believed that Scripture was inspired by God and without error, but also that it gives us all the wisdom we need in the exact place, time, and situations we find ourselves in.
Podcast: The Puritans We Forgot (Jenny-Lyn de Klerk)
Jenny-Lyn de Klerk talks about why it’s worth exploring the lives and theological insights of Puritan women who have often been overlooked.
What Ecclesiastes Taught Me about Being a Mom
Nicole Mahaney Whitacre
We all hit moments when life shatters our expectations of motherhood. My “moment” came early on, but sooner or later it happens to all of us.
Women Were Puritans Too
Jenny-Lyn de Klerk
We can’t really understand Puritanism at all—that movement so concerned with genuinely loving God in their communities, churches, and families,—without understanding the part played by Puritan women.
An Open Letter to a Struggling Mom
Katie Faris
Even while you and I experience the joys and bear the burdens of this glorious thing called motherhood, we remain—and always will remain—beloved daughters of our heavenly Father. Beloved is who we are.
“Mommy, Do You Like Being a Mom?”
Katie Faris
Even if and when we talk about some of the harder parts of parenting, we want to do so in a way that affirms our love for our children and how much we value them.
Is Christianity Misogynistic?
Rebecca McLaughlin
We may take it for granted that women are equally valuable as men. But that was not what people in Jesus’s day believed.
Let’s Talk about Our Bible Literacy Problem
Jen Wilkin
When women grow increasingly lax in their pursuit of Bible literacy, everyone in their circle of influence is affected.