Molly Evert

Molly has been joyfully married to David for 21 amazing years. She is living her dream as a homeschooling mother to 5 children, who range in age from toddler through high school. Molly is the creator of the educational website My Audio School, and a contributing writer and podcaster for the women’s e-zine Mentoring Moments for Christian Women.
An avid reader and a passionate Christian, Molly writes and speaks with humor and honesty as she seeks to encourage and challenge women in their faith. Her heart’s desire is to give glory to God and to point women to Christ, our only hope for salvation and sanctification. You can find her blogging at CounterCultural Mom and CounterCultural School.

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Choosing Which Hills to Die On

Filed in Visionary Worldview by on October 31, 2013 4 Comments
Choosing Which Hills to Die On

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert This week’s posts have touched on some hot button issues including higher education, vocation, and living “off the grid.” Unfortunately, there are no debate-ending proof texts on any of these issues that clearly tell us which choices are “the biblical ones.” In her post about college yesterday Natalie went after […]

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Are We Persecuting Ourselves?

Filed in Visionary Culture Changers by on October 28, 2013 37 Comments
Are We Persecuting Ourselves?

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert “The serpent is more crafty than any of the beasts of the field. He attacks while retreating, retreating while attacking. He concedes this point, all the while making that point. He is both a tar baby and quicksilver. And we are fools for forgetting it.” –R. C. Sproul, Jr. During […]

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Raising Sons to be Men

Filed in Visionary Motherhood by on September 9, 2013 1 Comment
Raising Sons to be Men

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert Our county Chamber of Commerce runs a teen leadership program every year, inducting nominees from each of the local high schools.  This year two home schooled students were also selected, including my oldest son. We were surprised to learn that this group of 30 future community leaders is 2/3 women. […]

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Homeschooling a Child With a Learning Disability

Filed in Visionary Education by on August 19, 2013 1 Comment
Homeschooling a Child With a Learning Disability

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert Homeschooling my oldest son has always been a breeze.  He learned to read when he was 3, and my greatest educational challenge with him was poor penmanship. I was not prepared for the struggles I faced with our second son.  He wasn’t ready to read at age 3. Or at […]

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Reflections While Waiting

Reflections While Waiting

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert Molly is one of the contributing writers of Three Decades of Fertility. Toward the end of her chapter she talks about their family’s plan to adopt a special needs daughter from China. This article is an update on that adoption. Our adoption process hit a snag recently.  We are waiting […]

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Naming Babies

Filed in Visionary Motherhood by on June 27, 2013 3 Comments
Naming Babies

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert We are in the process of adopting a daughter from China.  Though it has always been challenging to choose a good name for our children, I have never struggled as I did this time.  There are so many things to consider, such as whether or not to keep part of […]

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The Puritans on Breastfeeding

Filed in Visionary Motherhood by on June 17, 2013 21 Comments
The Puritans on Breastfeeding

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert Our secular history books have falsely taught us that the Puritans were dour faced, uptight, prudish people.  Far from “uptight,” our Puritan forefathers actually preached with candor on topics most present day ministers would blanch at. Puritan pastor William Gouge, writing in the 1600s, included 7 pages about breastfeeding in […]

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Discipling Teens in God-Glorifying Relationships

Filed in Visionary Motherhood by on May 23, 2013 4 Comments
Discipling Teens in God-Glorifying Relationships

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert As Christian parents, we recognize that our sovereign, loving God placed our children in our care with the Great Commission charge to make disciples of them. When they hit the teen years, our children start to face challenges in their relationships with the opposite sex that our spiritual enemy will […]

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Building a Bird Garden with Your Children

Filed in Visionary Homemaking by on April 25, 2013 0 Comments
Building a Bird Garden with Your Children

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert The Vision Two of our sons have been avid bird watchers since they were little boys.  Their favorite place to watch birds was the woods beside our home.  When a building contractor destroyed those woods to make room for a new house, the boys were devastated! They devised a plan […]

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When We See Him Face to Face: I Corinthians 13:12

Filed in Visionary Walk With God by on March 28, 2013 1 Comment
When We See Him Face to Face: I Corinthians 13:12

By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” (1 Cor 13:12) Heaven will change many things, all for the better. In this passage, we learn it will change […]

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