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What can I do about Sex Slavery?
April 25th, 2012 by Jonalyn
We don’t like to think of ourselves as a country where sex slaves live behind walls in our town. Much less appealing is the idea that we’re accomplices in the sexual slavery in the United States. Since it’s National Child Abuse Prevention Month (between 500 million and 1.5 billion children are estimated to experience violence annually), since our local [...]
Tags: abuse, body, feminin/masculin-ity, feminism, pain, prejudice, sex, spiritual growth
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Rich Ladies: When Women Back a Man’s Ministry
March 14th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I know men who proclaim in Sunday services words sharpened by a one-woman audience at home. Pastors around the country, relying on the women in their lives to help them. Personally, I count it a good thing when a man relies on a woman. I’m toe-deep in a book on this The Resignation of Eve: [...]
Tags: feminism, loving Jesus, marriage, ruby slippers, writing/speaking
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Fight Fair: How to Argue Without Destroying Others (and Yourself)
March 7th, 2012 by Jonalyn
My parent’s celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary last weekend with a trip to Disneyland. I got a text of my mother riding Space Mountain with my tall father beside her. They were smiling in glee. I feel their faithfulness to each other remains a diamond-gift to their four children. When I got married over 10 [...]
Tags: friendship, marriage, spiritual growth
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Hold the Chocolates while I Say Adios to Mr. and Mrs. Nag
February 8th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I think some people get nagging, I mean they get why it’s so tempting. I do. Nagging “the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignored and both become increasingly annoyed” defined last Wednesday by Elizabeth Bernstein, in the Wall Street Journal’s Meet The Marriage Killer: It’s More Common Than [...]
Tags: family, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage
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Practical Rest: When Busy Women Welcome Sabbath
February 1st, 2012 by Jonalyn
You know I care about resting, that I try to practice Sabbath rest. But I don’t practice faithfully or consistently. In other words, I’m always looking for better ways to practice rest. One reader of RubySlippers, a woman I met at a speaking engagement in New Hampshire recently explains how she rests. As a mother [...]
Tags: family, food, motherhood, spiritual growth
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New Year Wantings & Co-Parenting Safely Through Rapids
January 11th, 2012 by Jonalyn
Dale doesn’t think new year resolutions are all they’re cracked up to be. I tend to disagree, mainly because I’m a lover of opportunities to change in grandiose ways, ways I can write about and check up on. Dale is a changer in bits and pieces, he’s also big on changing when the need arises. [...]
Tags: envy, family, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage, motherhood, spiritual growth
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Mercy for Christmas
December 14th, 2011 by Jonalyn
As a young girl I played “Mercy” with other friends. The wrist-bending game where the loser had to shout, “Mercy.” The word that meant punishment would end, the word that was embarrassing to yell. Dale and I watched an episode of Midsomer Murders last weekend. The kind vicar with the bitchy wife was the murderer. Several [...]
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