About Good News for New Moms
As I wrote in the inaugural post of this project,
My experience has been that the present-day white evangelical church has a tragically poorly developed theology of new motherhood ... Therefore, I want to begin an attempt to, well, develop it. I want to try to answer some of the following kinds of questions:
What does God have to say about early motherhood?
What have been the norms around new mothers’ participation in the life of the church throughout church history? In the global church?
What practices of the church are most conducive to new moms’ flourishing? What practices harm them? How do we know?
How can the church be more inclusive of and empower to new mothers?
More than likely, in this project I’m going to ask far more questions than I ever (attempt to) answer. That said, I’d be honored if you join me for the journey as we ask, discuss, and maybe even discover together.
I want to be clear that I have no formal training or credentials in either birth work or theology. I’m a mom and a laywoman trying to think through intelligent questions, if not always answers, about new motherhood in the life of the church. I share this in the hope of setting clear expectations about the amateur nature of my work here - but I hope it may still be of some value.
