Light Duties

#16. A Variety of Difficulties 19.07.2021 11:46 ↓

We've been considering how a lot of our trouble with motherhood comes from our ideas about marriage. This episode traces a few of the difficulties which happen.

Biographical Interlude {bonus} 17.07.2021 7:05 ↓

A little of my own backstory.

#15. Hedging Our Bets 10.07.2021 8:12 ↓

Protecting our exit strategies changes how we do marriage and mothering.

#14. About Fathers 06.07.2021 8:53 ↓

Whether they know it or not, fathers are responsible for raising their kids to know God. 

#13. More on Marriage--Motherhood as Helping 03.07.2021 11:46 ↓

"Jesus changes husbands into men who lead well and he changes wives into women who help divinely. Helping is not a role we're rescued from, along with our sin. It's a role we're redeemed to mature into."

#12. Responsibility: Men, Women and Marriage 30.06.2021 10:19 ↓

Why are men and women given different instructions in passages like Titus 2? Let's think through the architecture which leads to the differences.

#11. It's Good to be Busy at Home 30.06.2021 12:48 ↓

Since we're not disembodied beings, marriage and mothering don't happen in a vacuum. Perhaps the Apostle Paul's outdated instruction to be "busy at home" has more in mind than we suppose?

#10. Good Motherhood Defined 30.06.2021 7:42 ↓

Good motherhood loves and pursues what God says is good, in the situation a mother and her children are in. It can happen even when situations are not good.

#9. Our Appetite for Happiness is Meant to be Big 23.06.2021 9:12 ↓

Desperation for happiness is driving most of what we do. And that's exactly as it should be.

#8. Mothers, We're Awkward About Goodness and That's Not Good 21.06.2021 10:04 ↓

When we take Jesus' gospel seriously, we can end up talking as if goodness is a bad thing. This leads to a whole lot of weirdness in our mothering.

#7. God's Goodness Causes Happiness 21.06.2021 7:22 ↓

Happiness and goodness belong together because they both come from God. Pursuing goodness is a far happier situation than avoiding it. 

We Aren't Good Mums and we Don't Deserve to be Happy, but {bonus} 20.06.2021 6:37 ↓

Jesus brings us into the very goodness and happiness we don't deserve. This changes how we approach motherhood.

#6. Duty is Not the Enemy of Happiness 18.06.2021 9:23 ↓

Happiness sneaks up on us while we're getting on with what's good.

But What Can You Do? 14.06.2021 7:05 ↓

Jesus saves us out of parental passivity, into optimistic courage.

#5. You Are Inadequate, But That is Not All 13.06.2021 9:35 ↓

Soothing our inadequacies the wrong way robs us of the very comfort we are trying to find. 

Inadequate Mothers {bonus} 09.06.2021 11:37 ↓

Inadequacy comes in a few shapes and we are complex packages of them. Steps to making sense of our limitations.

#4 God-Centred Duty, the Conduit of Love 02.06.2021 9:53 ↓

How duty is actually a way God distributes love to particular people through their particular relationships. The asymmetry of motherhood needs a source outside ourselves.

Giving Children What They Want {bonus} 28.05.2021 4:08 ↓

Doing what is good for our kids is not the same as giving them what they want. 

#3 Duty Devouring Motherhood 26.05.2021 9:29 ↓

Like all good things, used the wrong way, duty devours us. In this episode, we're recalibrating our ideas about duty.

#2 The Light and Duty in Light Duties 23.05.2021 7:40 ↓

Defining our terms for Christian motherhood.

Bonus: Growing Our Own Teeth 21.05.2021 4:41 ↓

No one else can do our growing for us.

#1 Before We Begin 19.05.2021 6:44 ↓

A little of the back story behind the Light Duties project. This is the audio version of an article from the Light Duties site.

Light Duties Episode 0 10.05.2021 15:00 ↓

Welcome to the Light Duties podcast. This is where the audio version of the articles from the Light Duties website. It's a long thought on Christian motherhood, one article at a time.