The most interesting thing that happened at the Republican Convention as far as I’m concerned was the fact that the Indiana contingent were wearing buttons that said, “Hoosiers for the Hot Chick.” I liked the sassiness of it. Not sure what it did for increasing Sarah Palin’s gravitas — that is, convincing voters […]
In a new book titled Why Christian Women Convert to Islam, Rosemary Sookhdeo says that 30,000 Christians have converted to Islam over the last decade, the majority of them women. In their formative years they get disillusioned with Christianity, discover the simplicity of Islam, and under a blossoming romance, convert. Or perhaps […]
Colleges are rejecting women at much higher rates than men, according to an article in this week’s U.S. News & World Report. In 1980 males and females attended colleges in approximately equal numbers, in 2006 women made up 57 percent and by 2010 are expected to increase to 60 percent of those attending college. […]
I’ve been reading Hugh Hewitt’s Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World, which compares blogging to the Gutenberg printing press, the evils of cultural elite punditry of left-wing bias to the evils of Catholic indulgences, the undoing of the Main-Stream Media to the undoing of the medieval Catholic Church. Just as Luther […]
Early this month a 92-year-old Turkish scholar, Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, an expert on Sumerian civilization, was acquitted by an Istanbul court of criticizing the head scarf as a poor symbol of women’s morality and religious devotion, since 5000 years ago it was used by temple prostitutes to distinguish themselves while having ritual sex with young […]
Much has been written recently about a Watertown, New York, elderly woman who was fired after teaching Sunday School for 54 years for simply being a woman. See the Associated Press story, Ben’s blog post and Dan’s as well. It turns out that the story is more complicated than that — that the […]
One of the first things I noticed many years ago about my in-laws was that they lived with strict roles. A gift had been given to this couple, a two-tiered plate with a handle and separating piece with threads on both ends and maybe a nut for the bottom. My mother-in-law-to-be opened the […]
Isn’t it great just how original we all are? How on Earth did God make us so unique, so fascinating, so specifically ourselves? Just think of all the gifts and interests God has given us so that we might reach others who are similar, yet even more different still. These differences are […]
Reviews are coming out now on the two big recent 2005 books in the evangelical feminism and biblical manhood and womanhood shootout. Evangelical Quarterly [78.1 (2006), 65-84] has an article, “Biblical truth and biblical equality: a review article on two recent books from IVP on evangelical feminism and biblical manhood and womanhood,” reviewed by […]
Each year in 28 African countries two million girls undergo what is euphemistically called “female circumcision,” but what is really mutilation and excision of the female external genitalia and clitoris (clitorectomy). “One quarter of them die as a result.” [Daughers of Hope by Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett, p. 12]
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