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Beauty will save the world
June 30th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Today I’m wearing a shirt from Image that says “Beauty will save the world.” Gregory Wolfe, who recently penned a book with this title, lifted this enigmatic phrase from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Nobel Lecture” who in turn borrowed it from Dostoevsky. I’m wicked tired, so I’m not really illustrating that with my haggard face, unless, of [...]
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“You’re Only a Woman”: Spiritual Abuse and the Independent Fundamental Baptists
April 14th, 2011 by Jonalyn
The father is the hammer. The mother is the chisel. The child is the stone (please note changes from email). I don’t receive theology from a woman. When Eve gave Adam theology, the whole word got damned to hell. The Bible says man is the head of the wife. The Bible was written by men. [...]
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Interviews on Writing, Speaking and Controversy
December 3rd, 2010 by Jonalyn
Most of my friends, the longtime ones, would tell you that my plans as a young woman don’t look like my life today. I didn’t want to go to college, instead I wanted to be married fairly young. I wanted to teach at a public high school until I got pregnant. I wanted to have twelve–yes [...]
Tags: apologetics, family, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage, motherhood, politics, prejudice, ruby slippers, writing/speaking
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Evangelistic Tagging and Female Friends
October 17th, 2010 by Jonalyn
So these two ideas are not necessarily related, but they do summarize 2 writing projects (one small and one big) I’ve been working on. As I’m writing in several places, I thought it would be good for your sanity and organization to know that this blog will keep you updated on new places to read [...]
Tags: apologetics, friendship, Gender Studies, writing/speaking
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Abortion – Listening to Both Sides
May 30th, 2010 by Jonalyn
In a Gallup poll released last month, I learned that 47% of Americans consider themselves pro-life, 45% pro-choice. As William McGurn wrote in the Wall Street Journal (“Gallup’s Pro-Life America: When Will the Media Reflect America on Abortion?“) this week, “Our strong moral qualms about abortion have not gone away.” However, most Americans still want [...]
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A Weekend with Messianic Jews
January 20th, 2009 by Jonalyn
I got to dance. This last weekend, the Soulation speaking team (read: Dale and me) flew to Atlanta for the Young Messianic Jewish Association’s (YMJA) Annual Youth Leaders Retreat. We had already been prepped with the request to call Jesus by his Jewish name, “Yeshua” and to do “what we do best” which in this [...]
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"Compare Jesus" Part IV- Jesus Outshine C.T. Russell and Conclusion
August 6th, 2008 by Jonalyn
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Charles Taze (C.T.) Russell, founder of the Jehovah Witnesses had an unusual marital agreement with his wife, Maria Frances Ackley (1850-1938). C.T. and Maria entered into a marriage of celibacy for the sake of partnering in their ministry. But Ackley eventually distanced herself from her husband, not [...]
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