Book Review: Living in God’s Two Kingdoms by David VanDrunen
We’re engaged with our culture, we’re just not trying to save it. We’re not trying to Christianize it. But we are still part of this kingdom. This distinction allows us to engage without being burdened, and it allows all of us to engage as we are gifted and according to our abilities.
Book Review: The End of Woman by Carrie Gress
What I found in reading this book was a mirror to see places where the feminist movement had strewn bad seeds that I was still letting grow in my garden. It made me pity the women caught up in all this, and it made me better understand my current culture while running as far away from it as possible. It made me stronger and clearer and braver in my thoughts. I know where I stand and why and with whom, and it isn’t the feminist or any of their lies.
Inspirational and Order
A blitz review of several inspirational books and home organizational books from both Abby and Sarah.
Book Review: Happy Starts at Home
This is a home decor book plus a lifestyle book. She doesn’t tell you any of the rules of decorating, decluttering, or organizing. She doesn’t tell you how to blend patterns, what size rug you need, or how high to hang a picture. Instead, she gives you homework.
HearthKeeper Library
Please see the rules at the bottom and contact Abby to check out books or see what is currently available.
Homemaker Chic: A Podcast Review
This podcast has blessed my work, sharpened my focus, and added beauty to my home. If you have a place in your life for a podcast, I highly recommend this one.
Book Review: Love the Home You have
As she writes about contentment, she makes it clear that it is not a passive, purely ideological thing. It is active and practical, and it takes action based on that heart-attitude of contentment.
Book Reviews: Summa Domestic and The Stocked Kitchen
This book is practical, philosophical (delving into the whats and the whys), realistic, and encouraging. Lawler even had a chapter that encourages those of us who regret not getting on the ball earlier in life with the whole homemaker thing.
Book Review: Susie and Divine Contentment
I read this book and was so convicted, but I was also greatly encouraged. I was encouraged as a wife, as a pastor’s wife, and as someone who struggles with the limitations set by her health. This book is a perfect illustration of “well-behaved women seldom make history.”
Book Review: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
In this book, you will find the home dearly loved, for who doesn’t love home more than an orphan? You will find the work of home honored and praised and the homemaker to be both the childless, the widow, the young, and the old.
Book Review: Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in the Family Life
Leila shares her story, her philosophy, and her theology of home. She has some of the most down-to-earth parenting and marriage advice I’ve ever read. She talks about nursing and teenagers. She’s snarky and sarcastic. Seriously ladies, some absolutely solid parenting advice can be found in this book. She also covers homeschooling a bit and how to build a community.
Book Review: Songs of a Housewife by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Theology of Home II: The Spiritual Art of Homemaking by Carrie Gress, Noelle Mering
The general tone of the book, like the first book, was peaceful, beautiful, quiet, gentle and mothering (in a good way). It was a calm oasis in my day to stop and read a chapter at lunch.
Book Review: Theology of Home by Carrie Gress and Noelle Mering, Photography by Kim Baile
Reading this book was a never-ending theological battle in the warmest, most beautiful, literally-brought-tears-to-my-eyes setting. It was like fighting an intellectual battle in Mom’s kitchen while she’s baking scones and the coffee is brewing. The coziness made it irksome to keep my theological shield up.
Book Review: Home-Making by J. R. Miller
I found a book about homemaking written by a man, and I was not disappointed. Yes, I had to do some translating, and I had to practice discernment, but it was refreshing to not have to slog through the subtext of the feminist lies soaking all of our culture. It was refreshing and convicting to be held to a high standard of womanhood. And it was a delight to see marriage and the home honored.
Book Review: The Way Home by Mary Pride
I snuggled in to read and be encouraged, I found a book of confused theology, one kingdom lies, a voice without hope or mercy for infertility and childlessness, and women who have to make hard choices.
Book Review: Naturally Healthy Woman by Shonda Parker
As someone who has for various reasons always struggled to master my health and my understanding of female health, this book was a great place to start. It doesn’t go into too many gory details that make me feel ill, or into such deep scientific explanations that my eyes glaze over. I’m feeling more confident about my health and my understanding of how my body works than I was before.
Book Review: Simple Sustainable Style by Randy Florke
Book Review: Zero Waste Home & The Hearth Witch
Book Review: Simply Clean
