Rachel Marie Stone has written for Christianity Today, Flourish, catapult/*cino, and Creation Care magazine, and also for her local newspaper, The Suffolk Times. She blogs daily about food, family, faith, joyful justice (and the Bread of Life) from her home in Greenport, New York, with her husband, two sons, extended family, and assorted cats.
Why Women Today Are Eating Their Own Placentas | Scripture and church tradition are silent on the practice. But they aren’t silent about our need for community. (June 13, 2012)
In Defense of Sarcasm & Humor: A Response to the Earnest | Why Christians can appreciate a good dose of laughter along with a serious sensibility. (June 6, 2012)
The Dark Side of Healthy Eating: Diagnosing ‘Orthorexia’ Eating Disorders | Are “pure” diets really all that good for us? (May 31, 2012)
For the Love of Pinterest? A Her.meneutics Hangout with Rachel Held Evans, Sara Bessey, & More | The bloggers join Her.meneutics regulars Laura Leonard, Rachel Marie Stone, and Sarah Pulliam Bailey. (May 18, 2012)
When Our Sexual Stories Go Off the Christian Map | Amy Frykholm’s ‘See Me Naked’ tells the stories of nine Christians (including the author) struggling to reconcile their sexuality and their beliefs. (May 17, 2012)
Why Marilynne Robinson, Narrative Calvinist, Doesn’t Fear Fox News | Our current political and religious climate betrays a fear of other people and impending threat, says the author of Gilead. (May 1, 2012)
Channeling the Mama Bear Effect to Fight Child Abuse | Blue Sunday is an opportunity for the church to take a stand. (April 23, 2012)
Kay Warren Talks to CT about Her Battle with Depression | Why the Saddleback Church co-founder’s newest book says happiness isn’t enough. (April 16, 2012)
Shaming Children for Eating Snacks: How Not to Fight Childhood Obesity | The Bible suggests food is a gift from God—even when we’re trying to lose weight. (April 4, 2012)
Five-Senses Spirituality: Why Our Whole Bodies Need God | Awaken Your Senses teaches Christians to know the Father through our flesh. (March 20, 2012)
Breastfeeding in Church, and Other Petty Crimes | The act of breastfeeding is a picture of the care God gives us. (March 2, 2012)
Why a Funeral Is Not the Time to Rejoice | We can let this season of Lent be Lent, so that Easter can be Easter. (February 29, 2012)
John Piper and the Rise of Biblical Masculinity | Why many church leaders are tempted to confuse cultural norms with biblical truth. (February 9, 2012)
How We Can Harness the New Domesticity Without Diminishing Women | Keeping house is part of God’s work, too. (January 12, 2012)
A Word to Michelle Duggar’s Critics: What It Means to Publicly Grieve a Miscarriage | In a culture that doesn’t have rituals for mourning a miscarriage, the Duggars’ memorial service may become a helpful model. (December 15, 2011)
Should Christians Take Antidepressants? A Response | I’ve never heard Christians protest relieving the pain of childbirth. So why would they protest relieving major depression? (December 6, 2011)
Why My Kids (Mostly) Don’t Watch TV | Children need to interact with creation, not just observe it. (November 10, 2011)
Adoption: A Long and Winding Journey | Like our adoption into God’s family, earthly adoption can be complex and costly. (November 1, 2011)
When Child Discipline Becomes Abuse | Inside the book that has recently been cited in three cases of child murder. (October 17, 2011)
The Saving Grace of a Shared Meal | Recovering a lost tradition in Jesus’ name. (September 29, 2011)
Spanking in the Spirit? | In Corporal Punishment in the Bible, William Webb says pro-spankers like James Dobson and Wayne Grudem are less jot-and-tittle than they realize. (September 23, 2011)
Inviting Christ to the Dinner Table | A conversation with theologian Norman Wirzba, author of Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating. (September 14, 2011)
Are Evangelical Women Primarily Interested in Parenthood? | Maybe many are, but there is so much more to the story. Welcome to Her.meneutics. (September 9, 2011)
The Her.meneutics Gender Debates (Part 2) | We talk to theologian Russell Moore about Bachmann, the divorce culture, and why a feminist reading of Scripture would often be easier than a complementarian one. (August 23, 2011)
The Gender Debates Come to Her.meneutics | In the first of a two-part series, we hear from egalitarian theologian William Webb on Michele Bachmann, slavery, and his ‘redemptive-movement’ reading of Scripture. (August 22, 2011)
Why Gratitude Is Not Enough | Ann Voskamp’s book One Thousand Gifts threatens to turn thanksgiving into the key to our salvation. (August 8, 2011)
A Daughter’s Grief Observed | Meghan O’Rourke’s luminous The Long Goodbye traces the final months as her mother succumbs to cancer. (July 7, 2011)
Reading Scripture with Sex Abuse Survivors | Elaine Heath’s We Were the Least of These offers a healing balm, but should be read alongside more traditional interpretations of Scripture. (June 30, 2011)
Taste and Smell That the Lord Is Good | Molly Birnbaum’s book Season to Taste reveals how our sense of smell connects us to places and people. (June 14, 2011)
A Horror Film about Childbirth | In aiming to spotlight infant and maternal mortality rates worldwide, Christy Turlington Burns’s No Woman No Cry relies on fear instead of facts. (May 24, 2011)
Churning Butter in Bonnets with Laura Ingalls Wilder | Wendy McClure’s The Wilder Life answers why we all wanted to live the pioneer life of Little House on the Prairie. (May 4, 2011)
Keeping Kids Junk-Food Free | What Christian communities might learn from Amelia Brown, the Philadelphia principal who sees childhood obesity as the next urban crisis. (April 1, 2011)
The Newest Gnostic Christian Diet | Lysa TerKeurst’s Made to Crave comes dangerously close to suggesting that food is bad. (March 15, 2011)
The King’s Speech and Doulas | What King George VI’s speech therapist, Lionel Logue, and I have in common. (March 10, 2011)
Why I Don’t Keep a Mommy Blog | In a world that’s as impersonal and voyeuristic as ours, I want the things I do at home to be just for the people I see and touch daily. (January 21, 2011)
‘Hallelujah’ Comes to the Food Court | Why one performance of Handel’s Messiah has attracted an audience of over 7 million. (December 3, 2010)
In the Shadow of Miscarriage | Elise Erikson Barrett’s What Was Lost aims to help women who have suffered miscarriage reconnect with God. (November 15, 2010)
Anorexia and the Body of Christ | Harriet Brown’s success story using family based treatment for her daughter’s eating disorder suggests we all could stand to share meals.
News Flash: Dads Are Nurturing | More fathers want an active role in caring for their children. Will U.S. employers be able to adjust? (July 28, 2010)
