by Emily Wierenga | Jun 19, 2013 | anger, devotion, fear, hurt, imperfect prose on thursdays, listening, loyalty, marriage, silence, submission
(by Brandee Shafer; paintings by Connie Kottman)When our marriage counselor Adam recommended a process of communication called reflective listening, I was raring to go. Confident, too, because–if I had a Native American name–it would be The Communicator. I... by Emily Wierenga | Apr 2, 2013 | Biblical womanhood, evangelical feminism, feminism, husband, leadership, marriage, prodigal magazine, servant-hood, spiritual mothers, submission, wife, woman's manifesto, womanhood, women pastors
Dear sisters, dear spiritual mothers and daughters and midwives and stay at home mamas;Dear women pastors and elders and janitors and lawyers and teachers and artists,I celebrate us. I think this is obvious from my Woman’s Manifesto.But.I fear for us too.I fear... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 22, 2013 | children, church, drinking, feminism, leaders, men, rape, Savanah, sons and daughters, Steubenville, submission, women
Abigail Batty, and Felicity DeVries, born March 19, 2013This morning I greeted life with a bouquet of flowers and a Jesus Storybook Bible, in hospital room #33, where my friends had both given birth on the same day, and both to girls.And one, the sister to Savanah... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 11, 2012 | anniversary, bible school, children, God, hope, husband, love, marriage, renew, submission, vows
you’ve always saved me, in your own quiet Christ-like way.”i don’t ever want our house to be without children,” i tell you. “even when we’re old, so long as we have beds, we have children,” and you nod and you smile.but just...