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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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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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Eating an Orange: Women and Food
February 22nd, 2012 by Jonalyn
I sat with an unpeeled orange in my lap looking out over the snowy hill. I could see the spot where we buried Lady Lucia, our oldest, loveliest corgi’s body (The Day Lucy Fell Into Shadow), the earth a little more scarred from the effort of digging a grave in the winter (Digging) I suppose [...]
Tags: body, food, marriage, motherhood, pain, sex
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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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How to Spot . . . and How to Treat a Chauvinist
January 18th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I thought they were my friends, they were strong, attractive, Spanish guys. We were in the same honors math classes together. I wore a powder blue fitted dress with white patent leather pumps. The heels were carved of stacked wood, but the dress hit the 4″ above the knee rule. That day those men started [...]
Tags: feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, loving Jesus, marriage, prejudice
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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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