Ones We Should Protect
I love(d) my husband, Bill, who died recently. And I know that Bill loved me. There were, however, ways in which we hurt one another over the 48 years of our marriage. And although we came from families that made … Read More
Parenting at the Extremes
There are a number of responses making the rounds on the ‘net to a 2007 article by John Rosemond, psychologist and parenting guru, that has been reproduced recently and has gone viral. His point is that idolizing children and catering … Read More
Hearts and Stars……
On the night that I first saw Bill Byrd, I was picked up at my dorm by one of his fraternity brothers and was escorted to a social event on Auburn’s campus for those of us who were candidates for … Read More
“I love her so much I’d die for her….”
Can someone explain this to me, please? I have had more than a few women tell me, when asked about their family status…..Children? “Yes.” Marital status? “Single” Divorced? “No. I don’t believe in divorce.” Okay. In our culture today one … Read More
The Marriage Box
The Marriage Box The Marriage Box Most people get married believing a myth, that marriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for: Companionship, sexual fulfillment, intimacy, friendship. The truth is that marriage, at … Read More
Boundary Setting In Relationships of Abuse
There are occasions when meek, emotionally-controlled, wounded women come to Titus 2 who have been subjected to abuse in one or more forms- emotional, physical, financial, sexual, psychological, spiritual, or relational. They often have learned to be “people pleasers” … Read More
Complegalitarianism…..Both/And, Not Either/Or
As I talk with a number of female friends, students, those with whom I journey in spiritual education or spiritual counseling, etc. this issue of appropriately biblical marriage dynamics comes up again and again. As 45 years of marriage will … Read More
Get the log out of your own eye…….with regard to men’s and women’s relationships in marriage
posted in: 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, 1 Corinthians 7: 3-11, Ephesians 5:21-33, marriage, Proverbs 31, Titus 2:3-5
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Recently, I found myself challenged by listening to a divorced and remarried lay man teaching women (unrelated to him), saying: “Men were created by God to be in control; women were created to nurture; God’s curse on women at the … Read More
My grammar teacher told me punctuation was important…..
A woman, without her man, is nothing. A woman: without her, man is nothing. In reading a book, Flawed Families of the Bible: How God’s Grace Works Through Imperfect Relationships (David and Diana Garland, 2007, Brazos Press), I came across … Read More
Cardinals, candy, and God……
From a journal entry 12/27/2001: It’s quite nippy today. I’ve put out birdseed and there’s a lot of squawking and chirpping and coming and going. I had fretted over the absence of birds, especially cardinals recently, thinking the cats might … Read More