Six weeks ago we experienced our third miscarriage. Losing a child, at any stage, is a profound tragedy, yet Christians alone have a hope and a comfort that the world cannot offer.

Scripture tells us suffering is guaranteed in this broken world, but we are often unprepared when it comes. Much of the unnecessary despair comes from misunderstanding the curse that rests on creation and from forgetting the sovereign goodness of the God who rules over every detail of our pain.

In this episode we share our recent story openly: what happened, how we have been walking through the grief, and the biblical truths that are sustaining us. We also spend time giving pastoral counsel both to believers who are suffering and to those who want to know how to minister faithfully to the hurting.

Our prayer is that this conversation will strengthen grieving parents and equip the church to weep with those who weep, to comfort others with the comfort we ourselves have received from God (2 Cor 1:4).

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• "Don't Waste Your Suffering" - article adapted from a by Caleb Stomberg
• "The Glorious Purposes of God in the Life of Isabella Hope" - Sermon by Matthew Cooke at Maynardville Fellowship Baptist Church in Maynardville, TN

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In this second installment on the often-ignored topic of Christian headcovering, we move beyond the biblical mandate to examine how Church History consistently affirmed the practice and how the feminist movement worked strategically to dismantle it.

For nearly two millennia, headcovering was universally practiced by faithful women across Christian denominations nearly without exception. But by the mid-20th century, it had all but vanished from the Western church. What changed? Was it new theological insight or cultural compromise?

Join us as we explore how second-wave feminism targeted headcovering as a threat to its ideological goals, how pastors yielded to cultural pressure, and why recovering this symbol is about far more than fabric. This is not about going backward. It’s about returning to the timeless beauty of God’s design for worship, authority, and glory.

⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠ to read the corresponding article to this episode and to get additional recommended reading and listening to explore this topic further.

Recommended Resources for Further Study:

• Michael Barrett’s ⁠Head Covering for Public Worship⁠
• Michael Barrett’s ⁠Sermon Series on Headcovering⁠
• Bnonn Tennant on ⁠Head Coverings⁠
• History of Quotes on ⁠Headcovering Since the Reformation⁠
• ⁠Head Covering: A Forgotten Christian Practice for Modern Times⁠ by Jeremy Gardiner
• R.C. Sproul’s ⁠The Hard Sayings of the Apostles: To Cover Or Not To Cover⁠
• ⁠Bright Hearth on Headcoverings⁠
• ⁠The Head Covering Movement’s Rescource Page⁠

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