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do women REALLY have a choice?
Perception Is Reality - Feminists for Life of America - Pro Woman Pro Life Does a woman who is pregnant really have a choice on campus? Or is she forced to choose between having a baby and sacrificing her education and career plans? Do parents, who are keenly aware that their education has a direct impact on [...]
Tutu says we’re obsessed
Image via Wikipedia BBC NEWS | UK | Church obsessed with gays - Tutu Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the Anglican church of allowing its “obsession” with homosexuality to come before real action on world poverty. “God is weeping” to see such a focus on sexuality and the Church is “quite rightly” seen by many as irrelevant [...]
The Voice
International Women’s Day 2008 The voice. loud quiet strong timid high low vulgar pious …from deep in the belly …from the shelf of the womb …from the seat of the soul …the voice forms sound wraps around passion entangles itself around concerns flows in and out of values wound tightly the voice generates heat light energy …remaining there it begins to burn …burn into the bones …until the very marrow is on fire the voice bubbles up when silenced, the [...]
the world handicapped by half
This came in my reader today, it’s fantastic and I encourage you to read the whole thing.  A world whose favored thesis just a few years ago read, “the personal is political” is now chasing the idea that “the global is local.” Conferences on global change, global development, global needs, global politics, global economics and [...]
Vital Voices : Woman’s Day Saturday
Vital Voices Home Page International Women’s Day is dedicated to the celebration of women’s social, economic and political achievements worldwide. In the United States, this official day of observance is rooted in women’s efforts to campaign for rights to work, vote and hold public office, culminating on March 8, 1908, when 15,000 women marched through New [...]
silence
If you send the message that the voice of the other does not matter, don’t be surprised when given the chance, they don’t want to speak
we compliment one another
My belief that men and women are equal AND different and that we compliment one another when we are given the freedom to be fully who God created us to be without caveat is what compels me to uphold an egalitarian view with regard to gender in both the family and the church. I maintain [...]
“quickie” thoughts on sexuality
*pun intended* Sexuality in singleness and how this plays out in the premarriage relationship is a very interesting topic to me of late but I’m not going to attempt to discuss it here until I have a firmer grasp on my thoughts. But I did want to direct you to 2 posts that quickly [...]