Callie Mitchell 6 Minute Read It’s a prime buzz phrase of our generation, and a perspective shared by atheists and believers alike. Assert the statement, “I hate religion” and you’re sure to gain a following. The outcry is sincere, and the concerns are valid. A spirit of religion is plain mean. Antagonistic to freedom, and anti-relational in its nature, religion…
Kami Williams 3 Minute Read Food makes me excited. I get giddy about cooking and trying new recipes in the same way that some women do about shoe shopping. When I have free time, I begin scrolling my multiple Pinterest food boards and planning my next adventure. I begin thinking of the way sauces can be used on pasta or how to…
Danielle Carey 4 Minute Read I’m a night owl who also somehow likes the morning vibe. As long as it’s not too early, I relish the relative quietness of the day’s beginning. I like the pottering around feeling of getting ready for work. I enjoy the morning light filtering through half-open blinds. I like the routine of getting my zombified…
Guest Author 4 Minute Read by Lindsay Lea It took me 26 years to get into the kitchen, and when I finally did it was not by choice, but rather necessity. I was raised on Bisquick, Top Ramen, and “homemade” meals that mostly came from a box or a can. My mother was a product of her generation, and the daughter…
Jeannie Pederson 3 Minute Read My kitchen is a busy place. I have two small children and a husband who works odd (and long) shifts, lots of ministry opportunities, and we love to share meals with friends despite our busyness. I need to stay flexible and not be tied to the kitchen in this season of life, so I currently…
Natasha Metzler 5 Minute Read We all heard the story from the time we were little. How Mama and Papa got married and she would cook her one-pot wonders. Tater tot casserole was just the beginning–she had a dozen different ways of getting her babies to eat their vegetables. Eventually the day came when Papa sat down at the table,…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read I really thought I was going to die under the weight of our Father’s Day gift. No, really. I had one end of the table and the other end was up on our deck and it was sliding toward me at an uncomfortable rate. My brothers had crafted the table out of solid, treated pine….
Katie 3 Minute Read All I wanted was a Keurig in my early twenties with my coffee in a to-go mug. Travel mugs symbolized I was grown up, a professional, with important things to do and places to be. Time to brew a regular cup of coffee? Maybe someday when I was a grandparent. Over the years the Keurig…
Callie Mitchell 6 Minute Read The siren sounded and I wasn’t ready. For several days I had this nagging thought that I needed to prepare a bag for a quick trip down to the bomb shelter, if it came to that. Israel was engaging in Operation Pillar of Defense, and we were living through it. With the battle in…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read “I bet you and your siblings are really close, huh?” someone asks me yet again. “Yup!” I reply. “We are!” There’s not much use in going deeper into the topic with someone who can never relate. The moment they hear that we were homeschooled, they’ve already imagined us in our own personal one-room schoolhouse with…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read I was raised without a TV. Perhaps that’s why Tsh Oxenrider’s passion for a life that isn’t dominated by a television resonated. To me, it makes perfect sense, of course there’s more to life and entertainment than a television. Entertainment, in all its forms, is so easily accessible in our technology-soaked culture; we can hardly…
Trina Holden 4 Minute Read I’m a real foodie who loves her ‘slow food’ as fast as possible. I shovel food like a backhoe gulps dirt, and even wrote a book about making real food as fast as possible so you can get on with life. But in my hurry, I think I’ve missed something. In Tsh’s book, Notes from…
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