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This post was originally written in October of 2018. I've done some light editing before republishing it, but have not changed it in any substantive ways. It's rather chilling to read it now, two and a half years later, given where we are in this country regarding men and women as well as the blatant attack on white people specifically. Could you …
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I told several people close to me that for the first time I really feel like my site reflects who I am. I'm at peace with what I've created and where things are going. I'm more than at peace. I'm truly excited. Except there is one thing I have to address to be at complete peace and feel completely free. It has to do with women in the church, why …
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I first published Merry Christmas, Darling in 2005 when I was a brand new blogger. I bumped it up from time to time on my previous blog (2009 and 2013). It wasn't on this website and it is a story I want to share my readers. Interestingly, just a few weeks after I first wrote it we discovered we were finally expecting a baby - on our ninth …
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Lately I've noticed a trend among some Christians to call their husband or wife their "partner" instead of what that person really is - a husband or wife. I’m over fifty and no one ever - ever - called their husband or wife their “partner” in Christian circles until the past few years. Why the change? I believe it is part of a bigger trend among …
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Over the weekend I spent a few hours reading through the entire discussion thread on Auntie Leila's {bits pieces} 144 dealing with women making a home. Since I don't run in Catholic homeschool circles, I didn't know about the brouhaha until she emailed out the next {bits pieces} the following Saturday. I subscribe to her blog because I appreciate …
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Lately I've been contemplating the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of individual believers and, more specifically, how God brings two people together for marriage. Among a significant number of Christians (especially in the homeschooling community) there is a strong leaning toward courtship. This view has been heavily promoted by various …
