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Jennie Chancey | August 31, 2011
Andrea Schwartz has a fantastic two-part series up on His Heartbeat for Women. Here are samples from each: Far from being a neutral area of life, the issues of labor and delivery, and the customary practices routinely followed, will either reflect the wisdom of God’s created order or they will reflect a humanistic makeover of [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 30, 2011
Margaret Somerville asks, “Is a society without disabled citizens really a perfect society?” Just when some scientists are on the cusp of discovering a drug for treating people with Down syndrome, others are busy refining the technology which will make them disappear completely. A feature in the New York Times Magazine recently highlighted the work [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 30, 2011
Michael Cook has written an excellent post over at Mercatornet, responding to what results when we reject a Transcendent Creator/Lawgiver: “The religious fundamentalists are correct: without God, there is no morality. But they are incorrect, I still believe, about there being a God. Hence, I believe, there is no morality.” This startling syllogism comes from [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 27, 2011
From Rachel Jankovic over at Desiring God: If I had to pick one word to describe motherhood, I think that word would be “transforming.” The days of a busy mother are made up of millions of transformations. Dirty children become clean, the hungry child fed, the tired child sleeping. Almost every task a mother performs [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 27, 2011
Jennie Chancey | August 27, 2011
Students in women’s studies courses throughout the United States hear stories of “girl-meets-birth-control” or awakening the inner feminine mystique. But I’ve learned something else in my history class at a Christian college. We were reading a speech Adlai Stevenson gave at Smith College’s 1955 commencement. Stevenson, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956 (losing [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 27, 2011
There’s a thoughtful, cogent piece on so-called “narrative ethics” by Sarah Flashing over at The Center for Women of Faith in Culture: “Christianity isn’t a list of rules, it’s a relationship” is how the cliché goes and I’ve never been very fond of it. While I agree that Christianity is about the transformative power of [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 27, 2011
Carolyn Moynihan chimes in on the birth control issue with this excellent piece: Forty years ago modern contraception was sold to women as part of a liberation package: at last they would be in control of their fertility and their lives. The pill was their passport to fewer children, economic independence and, as it soon [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 27, 2011
From Bob Laird over at Mercatornet: Backlash continues to mount against the August 1 decision by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to mandate that contraception be fully covered as “preventive” medicine by insurance companies – and thus, “free” for consumers. Most of the criticism has thus far revolved around the lack [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 27, 2011
So much for the myth that greater access to birth control will lower the abortion rate: A new study conducted by a former research arm of Planned Parenthood shows the policies of the abortion business promoting contraception and birth control to poor women aren’t working, as unplanned pregnancy rates are rising…. With the Planned Parenthood [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 25, 2011
From Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet: Asian marriage is in the news, with The Economist reporting on “the flight from marriage” in that part of the world and the London Telegraph noting the materialism which is delaying marriages in China. As we saw last week, divorce is booming in China. But young urban women are also [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 25, 2011
Vice President Joe Biden can’t keep his foot out of his mouth. On Sunday, he said he “fully understands” and “is not second-guessing” Beijing’s one-child-per-family policy. The remark came during an unscripted question-and-answer session with students at China’s Sichuan University. An Obama administration spokesman backpedaled, claiming the vice president finds the coercive aspects of the [...]
bravelass | August 23, 2011
The gals over at Her.whatever have been discussing “narrative ethics,” which turns out to be an odd sort of amalgamation of situation ethics and post-modern “what’s-true-for-you-may-not-be-true-for-me”ism. The trouble with such folks as the blogger is that the more they clarify and engage the discussion, the deeper the hole they dig for themselves. Ellen Painter Dollar [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 23, 2011
From Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet: With cohabitation replacing marriage, divorce is receding as a cause of family breakdown, but it remains a serious problem. An article in the Washington Times cites US Census Bureau survey figures indicating that there were well over a million divorces in American in 2008 (1,087,920) giving a divorce rate of [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 23, 2011
From Phyllis Schlafly’s latest column: The feminists are so accustomed to having their gender doctrines prevail in the courts, in the bureaucracy, in the media and in academia that they can’t deal with being told the truth, i.e., that their notions don’t make sense and are unfair to others, especially employers, husbands and fathers. Judge [...]
