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Jennifer McBride | October 11, 2011
I am thrilled to announce the completion of a book project that has spanned the past four years! Queen of the Home: Essays, Poetry and Quotes on the Honor, Power and Nobility of Biblical Womanhood is now available from Vision Forum! In past generations, the role of wife and mother was viewed as a sacred [...]
Jennie Chancey | October 7, 2011
Another excellent piece from Mercatornet: The illusion that moral diversity is a viable social strategy is at its last gasp…. [F]or about sixty or so years, Western culture has been engaged in a protracted rebellion against whole swathes of public ethics. For whatever reason, our culture has effectively disdained to engage in moral debate on [...]
Jennie Chancey | September 20, 2011
From Mary Kassian: The new gender-inclusive NIV was published earlier this year. It contains thousands of changes to the Bible’s male-gendered language. Having a gender-inclusive Bible appears to be the latest trend amongst cutting-edge, cappuccino-slurping Christian hipsters. Don’t get me wrong. I like to be hip. And I enjoy cappuccino as much as the next [...]
Mrs. June Fuentes | September 12, 2011
We are excited to announce that our NEW ebook, True Christian Motherhood, has finally been released! Here is the description: Women everywhere are looking for guidance, encouragement and vision. Gone are the days when we would have support from our community, friends and family. Being a mother in the 21st century can [...]
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
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 [...]
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 13, 2011
This chilling piece appeared in this week’s New York Times Magazine. Having recently re-read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, I could only shudder at the clear parallels. We have truly lost our moorings when “reducing” a pregnancy (by aborting one child) can be treated as plain old “consumerism”: As Jenny lay on the obstetrician’s examination [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 12, 2011
A surprising range of people (from British Prime Minister David Cameron to reporters and social commentators) are all pointing at the same fundamental problems in the wake of the riots in the UK–the loss of foundational morality and self-restraint, the breakdown of the family, and fatherlessness. Here are several key reads, which have implications for [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 20, 2011
Laura Wood over at The Thinking Housewife has an excellent two-part series up right now to answer some fundamental questions about feminism: Reading your blog makes me wonder. If older generations were happy with the traditional role of women in society, why was feminism embraced by the later generation? Maybe you think it was propaganda, [...]
Jennie Chancey | April 13, 2011
Dennis Rainey from Family Life has posted a short, thought-provoking (and sobering) piece: There is no reason why so many Christian marriages should end in divorce. There is no reason why people who call themselves evangelicals should account for one in every six abortions performed in America. There is no reason why more than half [...]
Tiffany | March 7, 2011
Nobody wants to be a slave. Nobody grows up aspiring to be a servant. In independent, me-centered America, all the coveted positions are on top. Words like “slave” and “servant” have negative connotations that make us think “low-class,” “subjugation,” and, in many cases, injustice or infringement of rights. Not surprising, then, is the fact that [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 6, 2010
NPR ran this report on its Morning Edition show, and I sat up to listen. While providing a lot of new statistical information, the piece doesn’t ask or answer some key questions. First, here’s the meat of the report: The path to adulthood used to be clear — love, marriage, baby carriage — and no [...]
Mrs. June Fuentes | October 28, 2010
Not long ago I taught a woman’s Bible study on the topic of Deception and Discernment and wanted to share a bit of that with you: One of the most infamous and well-known quotes of the century for woman: “I am woman, hear me roar!” The world has colorfully painted a picture of what women [...]
Mrs. June Fuentes | September 15, 2010
I want to get straight to the heart of the issue and expose some of the many and greatest lies of feminism. As you read through this list, honestly ask yourself which of these lies you may have believed in the past or present in some form or another. Shall we begin? 1. I have [...]
