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Jamie V Marino | August 12, 2010
Women used to know the importance of being in the home. They realized the gravity of their roles of being a wife and mom and knew that abdicating their roles would most certainly not be good for the family. I personally know that I could not be the wife and mom that the Lord has [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 29, 2010
Hang on to your hats (and prepare to sit down with a cup of tea for a long read). This is the best piece I have ever read on marriage in our post-modern times. It is a tour de force and should be required reading for anyone concerned about the state of relationships between men [...]
Luci McLeod | July 19, 2010
On Babble.com, one author offered a surprisingly honest, heartfelt examination of the choices she made to delay motherhood. She points out the numerous personal and social consequences of delaying marriage and childbearing. Certainly, God’s timing is perfect in all things. However, it’s sobering to consider just how much we’ve sacrificed to conform to our modern [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 2, 2010
An article that appears in the June 30, 2010 edition of The Times [London] represents a moral earthquake that resets an entire issue — and that issue is abortion. This chilling essay is hard to read, but impossible to ignore. To read it is to feel the moral ground shift under your feet. In “Yes, [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 2, 2010
Sarah Mae at Like a Warm Cup of Coffee has started up a fantastic series dealing with several hot-button issues and common myths about biblical womanhood, family, children, etc. Here are some of the topics she has set to tackle (with the help of guest writers): Unique callings in Christ Putting women in a box/dictating [...]
Tiffany | June 26, 2010
When I attended a chapel during my Christian university’s week of gender reconciliation chapels, I found that many of the women on the panel had begun to consider the question of whether or not they experience oppression as women in their daily lives. One woman’s comment was particularly intriguing. She said, “Before coming to this [...]
Carmon Friedrich | June 19, 2010
The nomad and the anarchist accuse the domestic ideal of being merely timid and prim. But this is not because they themselves are bolder or more vigorous, but simply because they do not know it well enough to know how bold and vigorous it is. –G.K. Chesterton Have you ever sat too long in the [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 13, 2010
Our good friend Doug Phillips over at Vision Forum just posted this commentary (the blockquote at the top is what he’s responding to): There are some disabled infants born with conditions so severe that doctors don’t really try to keep them alive. They allow them to die essentially through benign neglect. But that can be [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 5, 2010
From Mercatornet: While most Europeans worry their heads off about what is happening to the euro and the economy, certain members of the European political bureaucracy are getting on with more important things. Like drafting long resolutions about how to combat gender stereotypes in the media and having even longer meetings to get their ideas [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 1, 2010
Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women’s Forum always brings common sense to bear on issues the feminist movement holds out as beyond argument. Persistent victimology–the idea that women are constantly oppressed (even if they don’t know it)–is one of those issues. But, as Lukas demonstrates, the goal of radical feminism all along has never been [...]
Sandra King | May 27, 2010
On Saturday afternoon I was alone in the car with my honey for the first time in a week. We had just left the church, where our oldest daughter had just married, and we were on our way to the reception. (I will post about the ceremony later.) We were stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 10, 2010
Have to admit I did a double-take when I saw a quote from this article and realized who wrote it (thanks, Candice, for the URL!): One significant, and enduring, effect of The Pill on female sexual attitudes during the 60′s, was: “Now we can have sex anytime we want, without the consequences. Hallelujah, let’s party!” [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 10, 2010
Every now and again, feminist thinking and the goals of feminism are demonstrated in the clearest terms and without varnish. An article in yesterday’s Washington Post about the 50th anniversary of the Pill is a perfect case in point: Forget the single girl and the sexual revolution. The pill was not anti-mother; it was for [...]
bravelass | May 6, 2010
I once observed, in an allusion to a more famous saying, that one cannot play footsie with the religious feminists and hope to retain all of one’s toes. There is good reason for that, because one finds at the heart of religious feminism the seductive lies of heresy. Let’s face it, we’ve all known the [...]
Anna T | May 1, 2010
The other day, while I was waiting in line at the doctor’s office, I happened to overhear the conversation of two young moms who were sitting right next to me. It caught my attention, not because of how unusual it was, but because it’s so very typical these days. “I pay so much for daycare,” [...]
