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Jasmine Holmes

Jasmine Holmes is a wife, mom, and speaker. She teaches humanities and Latin at St. Augustine Classical School. She and her husband, Phillip, have a son, and they are members of Redeemer Church in Jackson, Mississippi. She writes regularly at her website.

The Single Person’s Search for Intimacy

The Single Person’s Search for Intimacy

Unmarried does not mean alone. God created us for an intimacy that we do not need marriage to provide: fellowship within his body, the church.

Invite Someone Single to Dinner

Invite Someone Single to Dinner

We are one in Christ, not two. Singleness is not introductory. Marriage is not Christianity 2.0.

Do You Trust Disney with Your Kids?

Do You Trust Disney with Your Kids?

We cannot relegate the holy privilege of raising our children to Disney, Pixar, Dora, Sesame Street, or any other mass-media outlet.

Nine Months in Mary’s Womb

Nine Months in Mary’s Womb

Advent Hope for Mothers

God designed the womb to bring forth life through a mother’s sacrifice, and then he entered the womb to become flesh and dwell among us.

Makeup Is a Hobby, Not a Necessity

Makeup Is a Hobby, Not a Necessity

Whether we were blessed with perfectly symmetrical faces and bodies, or acne scars and postpartum lumpiness, we are made in God’s image and precious in his sight.

Simple Advice About Mommy Advice

Simple Advice About Mommy Advice

New moms are inundated with direct and indirect advice like never before. Here are three filters to put on every tip.

Atticus Finch and the Fight for Justice

Atticus Finch and the Fight for Justice

Remembering Harper Lee

Atticus Finch’s virtue continues to stand as an example in our often divided society. And beyond him, the flesh and blood example of Christ and his truth looms even larger.

There Is No Shame in Loss

There Is No Shame in Loss

On Miscarriages and Announcements

Announcing a pregnancy early is not about the attention or potential heartache. It’s about proclaiming that pregnancy is great, and there’s no shame in loss.

How to Handle Your Spouse’s Sexual Past: Three Sins to Fight

How to Handle Your Spouse’s Sexual Past

Three Sins to Fight

Fighting against the wreckage of our spouse’s past sins involves fighting against the present manifestations of our own sinful hearts.

How to Care for Women Who Have Miscarried

How to Care for Women Who Have Miscarried

There is no magic bullet that can make the pain of having a miscarriage disappear. However, in my quest to love women who have miscarried, and as a woman who has experienced it, there are a few comforting ways the Lord uses his people to care for one another.

What Friendship Is Made of

What Friendship Is Made of

We know that marriage creates a new family and a friendship, but maybe you’re like me and don’t quite realize that those two aspects of the married relationship are one and the same.

A Last Name Says a Lot

A Last Name Says a Lot

When we decided to get married, we didn’t do so merely because we wanted to wake up next to one another every morning or raise a family together. We were married because, as Christians, we knew marriage to be a covenant union sanctioned by God for his glory, for our joy, and for the good of others.

We Long to Belong

We Long to Belong

Rachel Dolezal decided to occupy a certain niche in American society, and she did so by lying to fit into her preferred group. We long for identity — we long to belong.

McKinney and Me

McKinney and Me

A city that used to be a little-noticed Dallas suburb has become yet another lightening rod of racial controversy. Twenty years ago, this would have been something we discussed with our friends and family; today, our audience is broader, with little accountability...

I Wasn’t Ready for Marriage

I Wasn’t Ready for Marriage

No one is really ready for marriage. But in all our unpreparedness and in all the messiness, Jesus displays his faithfulness again and again.

The Real Faces Behind the Gay Issue

The Real Faces Behind the Gay Issue

A few years ago, a girl wobbled onto the ice with her little brother in tow, wondering about the wisdom of taking him for an ice-skating trip on his fifth birthday — especially since she hadn’t been ice skating in…

My Baby’s Heart Stopped Beating

My Baby’s Heart Stopped Beating

God gives purpose to our suffering. He chose me to be my child’s mother for seven weeks, and he chose for me to learn to walk through loss with faith.

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