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Abigail Dodds

Abigail Dodds is a wife, mother of five, and graduate of Bethlehem College and Seminary. She is author of Bread of Life: Savoring the All-Satisfying Goodness of Jesus through the Art of Bread Making.

How Does She Do It? The Making of an Atypical Woman

How Does She Do It?

The Making of an Atypical Woman

Young mother, breathe. God will increase your capacity while you are faithful in what he has called you to do today.

We Become What We Watch: What Entertainment Does to Our Minds

We Become What We Watch

What Entertainment Does to Our Minds

We might think we can shut off our minds while we watch television or movies, but we are always thinking — and that thinking shapes who we become.

The Beauty and Abuse of Empathy: How Virtue Becomes a Tyrant

The Beauty and Abuse of Empathy

How Virtue Becomes a Tyrant

Empathy moves us toward suffering, arouses our love, and attunes us to others’ emotions. But empathy can also become a tyrant.

Woe Is Me: The Sin of Self-Pity and How to Be Free

Woe Is Me

The Sin of Self-Pity and How to Be Free

Self-pity invites you to hold onto your hurt and lick your own wounds. God invites you to bring your hurts to him and find healing.

What Does the Body Say? The Voice of God in Human Form

What Does the Body Say?

The Voice of God in Human Form

The bodies God gives us teach us not only what is, but what ought to be. And when we disregard our bodies, we disregard the God who made them.

Blessed Are the Unoffendable

Blessed Are the Unoffendable

When someone hurts us, it is all too easy to take offense and shut the gates of our hearts. But blessed are the unoffendable.

Obeying God Will Make You Wise

Obeying God Will Make You Wise

If you want to grow in wisdom and understanding, trust and obey God, especially when you think you know better.

Submission Is a Wonderful Weapon

Submission Is a Wonderful Weapon

What makes a wife’s submission a rare and wonderful weapon? It shows the reliability and worth of her God.

Young Mom, You Can Read the Bible

Young Mom, You Can Read the Bible

For young moms to find consistency in Bible reading, we have to learn to embrace flexibility in Bible reading.

Love Your (Imperfect) Pastors

Love Your (Imperfect) Pastors

God will meet us in unexpected ways when we forsake our own expectations, and receive our imperfect pastors as the men God has made them to be.

More Than Mom Can Bear: How to Love Beyond Our Limits

More Than Mom Can Bear

How to Love Beyond Our Limits

In times of crisis, when we know our best isn’t good enough, and our strength isn’t strong enough, we learn more fully what trusting in God means.

Suffering Under an All-Powerful Love

Suffering Under an All-Powerful Love

When those who know God’s sovereignty suffer, we may be tempted to question his love or rethink his power. But again and again, it is his ruling over the storm that becomes our bedrock.

Your First Years of Marriage: Three Lessons for Young Couples

Your First Years of Marriage

Three Lessons for Young Couples

When we get married, we might assume that life together will be easy and fun, but the first years can be especially challenging.

The Sacred Life of a Mother’s Mind

The Sacred Life of a Mother’s Mind

Moms may feel like we can’t prioritize our own minds over the needs around us, but how we keep our minds will shape how we keep our homes.

Is Jael a Model Woman? Feminine Fight in a Feminist Age

Is Jael a Model Woman?

Feminine Fight in a Feminist Age

Some today hold up Jael as a model of feminine strength, but how much should we imitate the tent-peg-wielding heroine?

Meal Times Are God Times: Cultivating Fellowship at the Table

Meal Times Are God Times

Cultivating Fellowship at the Table

Meal times have always been significant for Christians. How might we, as families, sanctify the moments we sit down to eat together?

She Needs Truth: How Hard Words Serve Women

She Needs Truth

How Hard Words Serve Women

Many women in the church receive an overwhelming amount of comfort and dangerously little correction. Why do godly women, too, need uncomfortable words?

For Mothers of Future Men

For Mothers of Future Men

If our sons were asked about what they heard most from their mom, what might their answers be? How would we want them to answer?

Happy to Be She: My Glad Path to Complementarity

Happy to Be She

My Glad Path to Complementarity

Far more important than the word “complementarian” is the happy reality — rooted in creation, discovered in Scripture, reclaimed in Christ, and worked out in life.

Are You Glad to Be a Woman?

Are You Glad to Be a Woman?

Whether you’re married or not, whether you can bear children or not, all women can embrace and celebrate the particular wonders of being a woman.

Chapters of Mothering: How Reading Shapes a Child

Chapters of Mothering

How Reading Shapes a Child

Stories, good and bad, shape us deeply — our minds, imaginations, hopes, and character. As Christian parents, we invite children, through story, into worlds of wonder — and guard them from worlds of filth.

Marital Conflict for New Wives

Marital Conflict for New Wives

New wives should be both realistic and hopeful. Conflict will certainly come, but it need not spoil the first years of marriage.

Closer Than a Sister: How Women Cultivate Real Friendship

Closer Than a Sister

How Women Cultivate Real Friendship

Some women struggle to find meaningful friendships, while others have a hard time keeping those relationships. What are some keys to loving our sisters in Christ?

The Brave Mother of Men: Lessons from a Favorite Story

The Brave Mother of Men

Lessons from a Favorite Story

Despite what recent movies tell us, feminine bravery is not manly bravery. Godly women fight like women. They fight like Nia Wingfeather.

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