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Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
How to be Mom Enough
May 11th, 2012 by Jonalyn
A mother gives a child her place in this world. We are all walking tableaus of how we were raised. Even the woman on the cover of Time’s most recent desperate cover (desperate in media stunt to usher women into a more mommy war), she tells us about her mother. What? well you’d have to [...]
Tags: feminism, motherhood
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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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Ashley Judd Gets it Right
April 11th, 2012 by Jonalyn
“The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.” –Ashley Judd Ashley Judd recently wrote, “Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate.” I could not agree more. Patriarchy is held in place at least partially by women. [...]
Tags: beauty, body, envy, feminism, politics, vulnerability
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Red-Blooded Women*
March 21st, 2012 by Jonalyn
*simultaneously posted at Christianity Today’s blog for women, Her-meneutics. I watched Butterfield 8 with my husband last weekend. Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her role as the sexually abused and sexually addicted call girl that falls in love. Her story is precisely what I’ve heard on the road from girls as young as 12. [...]
Tags: body, feminism, marriage, sex
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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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What does Feminism Mean to You?
February 16th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I was 19 years old at the University of Virginia and suffering. I had enrolled in Women in American Literature and felt instantly intimidated by the strong, articulate and (to my mind) ANGRY feminists (was their a more vitriolic combination?) sitting beside me. I was so freaked out I ask the professor to let me [...]
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