From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Winter Wonderland Adventure

February 27, 2010

Update: Right after I posted that last post about not being that awesome, Ben invited me to join him on a winter wonderland adventure. We put on tons of layers and then trekked through the snow behind out property’s treeline, following woodchuck footprints to find their burrows. We followed them along the old railway, identifying [...]

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Our Marriage isn’t that Awesome

February 27, 2010

I’m worried. I’m worried that with all this “Defense of Early Marriage” stuff, I’ve fallen into the “you-should-be-more-like-us-because-we’re-awesome” pattern of writing. I’ve included pictures of us doing rad stuff and talked about how great all of our friends are doing, and I worry that I’m getting show-offy. I hate those books and blogs that are [...]

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Objection #2 to Early Marriage: Immaturity

February 24, 2010

I’m continuing my defense of early marriage by tackling objection #2: immaturity. A lot of people believe that anyone under 25 will be too immature to make such a profound and lasting commitment as marriage, and will be psychologically unprepared for the responsibilities of being married. Of course this is true for many young people. [...]

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Objection #1 to Early Marriage: Economic Insecurity

February 22, 2010

If you missed it, I recently wrote my Defense of Early Marriage. I listed the five main objections that people commonly have against early marriage, with the intention of responding to each of these objections. The first objection I want to respond to is that of economic insecurity. Naysayers often point out that young people [...]

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In Defense of Early Marriage

February 18, 2010

I have been wanting to write this post for a while. But I only got the clarity of vision and incentive to really tackle it when I came across Mark Regnerus’s fantastic article The Case for Early Marriage a few weeks ago (via Halfway to Normal). Suddenly, I was going, “Yes, yes! That’s exactly what [...]

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Just for Fun: How to Make Snow Ice Cream

February 16, 2010

I have fond memories of making snow ice cream with the family as a kid. I’m pretty sure it’s a Mennonite thing, although Ben has no recollections of making it growing up. Anyways, it’s the bomb. (I’m trying to bring back that late-90’s expression of approval but haven’t gotten a wide following yet). I loved [...]

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Marriage and Lent

February 15, 2010

As a Mennonite-turned-evangelical-turned-God-knows-what, I have never participated in Lent. It’s not something that my church or family ever did. I never knew what it meant or why certain people were refusing to eat Reese Peanut Butter cups during certain times of the year but not the rest of the year. The few people who I [...]

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Winner of “A Private Affair”

February 14, 2010

We’ve got a winner! Thanks for everyone who submitted a comment and tweeted about the giveaway for A Private Affair. I got a lot of interesting feedback, and I appreciated everyone’s honesty and openness. To be honest, I didn’t expect that level of frankness from so many people! Thanks to everyone for making it an [...]

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Mennonite Money Principle #2: Do the Work Yourself

February 13, 2010

(This is the third part of my Money Principles from the Mennonites. Yesterday I covered Don’t buy anything you don’t need.) Mennonites are masters of this – or at least the Mennonites that I grew up with are. The Mennonites I know will learn how to do just about anything in order to avoid having [...]

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Money Principle #1: Don’t Buy Anything You Don’t Absolutely Need

February 12, 2010

This is Principle #1 as mentioned in my first post of the series, Money Principles from the Mennonites. Tomorrow I’m going to come back with Principle #2, Do the Work Yourself. Oh, but before I begin, I want to say this: in my last post, I expressed uncertainty about whether I could consider myself any [...]

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