LAF/Beautiful Womanhood

My Mother: Reflections on Mother’s Day

Kelly Crawford — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:43:26 +0000

My mother has had over three dozen children. She gave birth to two, but giving birth isn’t really what makes one a mother, is it? It’s the hard stuff. The stuff my mother has done over half her life, with little accolades and with no earthly payment. The mother-stuff. And the most important of her jobs? [...]

Childless on Mother’s Day

Jennie Chancey — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:35:11 +0000

From Lauren Casper’s blog: There are so many women in our lives who are hurting and who dread Mother’s Day. We may not even recognize them but they are there. They’re the ones who dread church on Sunday morning and perhaps choose to stay home. They are dreading the sermon that will inevitably be geared [...]

A French Revolutionary Scolds Mothers

Jennie Chancey — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:09:52 +0000

On this day when we celebrate moms, it’s amazing there are women in the world who think motherhood is denigrating and without real worth: Simone De Beauvoir famously said that being a full-time mother should be illegal because too many women would enjoy it. Badinter does not advocate criminalizing motherhood. She just wants to keep [...]

From Feminism to Gay ‘Marriage’

robinphillips — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:18:13 +0000

In an article I wrote for the Colson Center, titled “How Gay ‘Marriage’ Became Plausible”, I explored some of the issues that are upstream of the same-sex marriage debate. What are the plausibility structures that have led to a state of affairs whereby people are even willing to discuss something as absurd as changing the [...]

The Difference Between Homemaking and Housework

Mrs. Wayne Hunter — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:14:20 +0000

“Homemaking is not simply housework. Housework is keeping a house clean; homemaking is creating a pleasant home for one’s family. The aim and greatest reward of real homemaking is a happy, contented family.” ~ Quoted from an entry titled “Homemaking” by Ida Bailey Allen, Page 2875 of The Book of Knowledge, Volume Eight, Copyright 1962 [...]

Should Churches Push Contraception?

Jennie Chancey — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:13:06 +0000

From Boundless.org: Young evangelical leaders at the recent Q conference in DC were asked, as part of a panel on reducing abortions, this question: ”Do you believe that churches should advocate contraception for their single 20-somethings?” The “yes” crowd was 66 percent large. Only 34 percent said no. Wow! What does one make of this? What’s remarkable [...]

Is There Love After Marriage?

Jennie Chancey — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:12:40 +0000

From Boundless.org: A year and a half into our marriage, we were walking on the fair grounds, commenting on the young couples in love: teen girls carrying bears won by their boyfriends at the clown toss, couples nestled in the seats of a Ferris wheel, others dancing to the live band, a few making out [...]

Too Feminine?

robinphillips — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:04:21 +0000

In his parenting manual, Emile, the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued that men and women are made differently and therefore require different types of upbringing. He espoused what today many people call a “complementarian” view of gender, which refers to the idea that the differences between men and women complement and enhance each other. . [...]

The Master’s Social Worker

Mrs. Wayne Hunter — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:40:05 +0000

“What’s wrong with women nowadays?” is a question that many other women may ask after seeing grown women who are angry, cruel, and seemingly unable to be very good wives and mothers. Maybe these women argue with their own children like children themselves; maybe these women are hollering at their husbands or boyfriends; maybe these [...]

Provision

Anna T — Sat, 05 May 2012 20:17:14 +0000

This is a subject I wanted to touch upon when I wrote my last post, but time simply did not permit, so here I am now. The skeptical question of “how can you afford so many children?” is often simply answered by, “God provides,” and this, in return, gets a lot of raised eyebrows. “Don’t you [...]