Decluttering Your Marriage

Have you ever felt your marriage get cluttered up with sins and cumulative wrongs? Do you wish that you could deal with it, but don’t know where to begin? Douglas Wilson loves to point out that the way you fix these sorts of sin pile-ups is the same way you declutter a garage: Begin with …

How to Exasperate Your Wife

Marriage is not a vending machine, and love is not two quarters to put into it. It’s a manner of life, not an exchange of commodities. So what does it look like when a man loves a woman?” Douglas Wilson answers that question in How To Exasperate Your Wife and Other Short Essays for Men, …

Complete Paul, The

Often we are so familiar with the words of Paul that we can let our eyes glide over the verses, forgetting how revolutionary, convicting, and encouraging they have been (and are) to the people of God. In this new reader’s edition of Paul’s epistles, readers have a unique opportunity to explore Paul’s letters as part …

Why Children Matter

In the Garden of Eden, there was only one “No.” Everything else was “Yes.”: In this short book on Christian childrearing, Douglas Wilson points out that we have a Father who delights in us and makes it easy for us to love and obey Him. If that is the kind of Father we have, shouldn’t …

Beyond Stateliest Marble

A number of years ago, I contributed two biographies to the Leaders in Action series, one of Anne Bradstreet and the other of John Knox. As Cumberland House which published them is no longer in operation, the rights to publish them have now reverted to me. This I am now doing in this little Mablog …