Home Fires

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Tilly and Abigail talk about Abigail's new book, Bread of Life. While each of them (by coincidence!) keep an eye on pumpkin bread baking a few rooms away, they discuss baking and the Christian walk, Jesus as the "what is it" manna, Eve spewing out the word of God in order to accept and digest the lies of...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Abigail and Tilly catch up and tell about the biggest things that have happened in life over the past year. They  make no promises at all about the super duper secret planned episodes for season 2, but leave you to imagine all those exciting guests and topics!

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . In Abigail's bedroom, the ladies settle into deep armchairs with cups of tea and chat about Christmas. In their most relaxed conversation to date, they manage to talk about a few substantive things... but first they find they must discuss monochromatic Christmas decor, "fencing" Christmas like you would t...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Tilly and Abigail talk about envy. What do we do when others are blessed in ways we aren't? What if they have the family, the talents, the home, the life we wish we had? How do we handle the borrowed glories God bestows on others? Why isn't God as "fair" as we are? In our very first in-person recording, t...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Abigail and Tilly are joined by two British blokes to talk about stories and the Christian home. How can we tell stories in our homes that will strengthen our faith and plant seeds in our children? What narratives do we tell ourselves throughout the day, and how does this affect our joy? What are the fals...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Kevin DeYoung joins Tilly and Abigail to bring us all up to speed in the conversation about complementarity. Within the complementarian world, there are some who call themselves "narrow" or "thin" complementarians. This camp believes we should be very careful to say anything about different roles for men...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Tilly and Abigail discuss marital submission and settle all of your questions once and for all. But seriously, they talk about the challenge of being a Christian wife who seeks to adorn herself by being submissive to her husband (1 Pet. 3:5).  Marital submission is lovely, but it is often difficult. Like...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Tilly and Abigail are joined by Tony Reinke to talk about technology. What is technology and how do we approach it as Christians? Is it something eye distrustfully, but put up with? Or is technology a built-in part of God's world, something we as God's creatures can use with his glory in mind? Tony Reinke...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Tilly and Abigail talk about home as a "safe space." In the midst of a culture that seems to have a lot of new ideas about what constitutes safety and danger, can we think of our homes as the place of retreat? Is it more dangerous to be out in the world with our guards up, or inside the four walls of our...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Abigail and Tilly are joined by Rebekah Merkle and Rachel Jankovic from the podcast What Have You. They talk about the nitty gritty details of what it looks like to offer your home up to God as a sacrifice of praise. What does it look, smell, feel, taste, and sound like when we preach the gospel through t...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Tilly and Abigail talk with Andy Naselli about the conscience. What is the conscience? What do you do when yours is calibrated differently from your friend's or your husband's? How do you care for your children's sense of right and wrong? How do you care for your own conscience, and what can you do when y...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Abigail and Tilly talk about being bored while home with young children. Our culture has a preferred solution: outsourced childcare. But what does the boredom actually indicate? Is it necessarily a problem? They jump off by talking about a book by Erica Komisar called Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherh...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Abigail and Tilly talk to Rosaria Butterfield about the radically ordinary role of the home in reaching lost and lonely people. What are some creative ways of opening our homes to real people in the age of Covid? How do we talk to unbelievers about sin? How do we edify other Christians in our homes?

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Tilly and Abigail talk about things we do that aren't particularly efficient but are worthwhile for other reasons. What are hobbies for and how do they contribute to the Christian home?

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Abigail and Tilly talk to Joe Rigney about how the material blessings of the home can be enjoyed in tandem with worshiping God, the giver of all good gifts.

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Abigail and Tilly talk about food, dieting, and the freedom Jesus brings to table fellowship. What does that mean for the home? What does it mean for hospitality? What does it mean for people (like Tilly) who are naturally bad cooks?

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Abigail and Tilly talk about women and the home, as well as gender roles as part of a created order.

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . We are Abigail Dodds and Tilly Dillehay, and we're here to encourage you to make your homes a wartime outpost of life in Christ.  Follow us on Instagram or Facebook to hear when a new episode comes out. Episode 1 will be released Monday, September 7! Keep those home fires burning!