Guest Author 3 Minute Read by Mary Aldrich Over a Women’s Bible Study on Proverbs 31 recently, we discussed ideas of how to make each verse more meaningful to us in our lives now. I got the idea to write a modern day application of the passage and what it means to me, using the acrostic idea present in the…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read The title was … interesting.
Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild? I wrinkled my nose at the computer screen. It wasn’t a bad title for a book, but … I wasn’t sure Girls Gone Wise was going to be “my” kind of book.
I was wrong.
“There is a measure of Girl-Gone-Wildness in all of us …”
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read Inside Girls Gone Wise, Mary Kassian looks closely at the “wild thing” of Proverbs 7, contrasting her teachability, habits, appearance, focus, and more with those of the wisdom found in the rest of Proverbs. Each of the 20 chapters looks in depth at a point of contrast, using real-life illustrations and providing challenges that go straight to the heart of any girl who wants to be wise.
Jessica Telian 5 Minute Read Contrary to what many people think, anorexia (anorexia nervosa) is essentially a mental illness. The person’s mind distorts their body image from what it truly is. I would look at my stick-thin body in the mirror and think that I was fat…I was delusional. But until I read Feeling for Bones, I didn’t realize that was anorexia, I thought I was just concerned about how I looked. But it was more than just concern.
Jessica Telian 4 Minute Read It amazes me the things I define myself by.
For as long as I can remember, I was always the skinny girl. I pretty much looked like a toothpick until I was about 16 or so and even then, I was still very slender. This had its own problems, but in general it was something that I liked about myself. I definitely thought of myself as thin and whenever anyone would describe me it would almost inevitably be on their list.
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read Like most girls, I grew up with the dream of being a beautiful princess. Except, my image of femininity was less Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, more Queen Lucy of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, and Josephine March. They were strong women who were far from being just ornamental: they had a passion, a calling—and…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read When we talk of modesty, I always think of the story Elisabeth Elliot told of the Auca Indians. They wore nothing but a string around their bellies. But to them, the neighboring tribe who was lacking that tiny bit of adornment was walking around stark naked and terribly immodest. That did not mean that Elisabeth…
Gretchen Louise 1 minute Last fall, a reader named Amanda asked me some fun and thought-provoking questions for an interview. The one that really gave me pause was this: “What is the best advice you have ever received?” Not just the best advice I’d read, or the best advice I’d given, but the best advice I’d received. A lot…
Ashleigh Baker 7 Minute Read I believe strongly and wholeheartedly in solid, godly marriages. Marriage is an awe-inspiring, truly blissful thing and something to be lauded and heralded as the God-ordained institution it is. We are people created for marriage and, once married, we should strive daily, at every possible opportunity to encourage each other toward even stronger, even holier marriages. But marriage is…
Gretchen Louise 7 Minute Read How often does it cross your mind that the way we live as Christian women is to actually commend the Gospel? Carolyn Mahaney has written a book that brings that point home in a powerful way, highlighting “the seven virtues of a godly wife and mother” straight from Titus 2. Feminine Appeal has a powerful…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read Set-Apart Femininity: God’s Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman is unlike the average book at your local Christian book store. As the title implies, it is most definitely set apart from the rest. It is not a book about being a happy, fulfilled, Christian woman-at least not in the terms we normally think of happiness…
Guest Author 6 Minute Read Short, fat, tall, thin.I look in the mirror and a thousand voices echo in my head.This is too big, that’s not big enough.My inner critic is relentless and harsh.Images swirl through my mind’s eye.Bone-thin models and beautiful actresses and singers.Every one of them telling me the same thing.You don’t measure up. Then the if onlys…
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