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I don’t know whether to be sad or just numb: today we had yet another revelation about a powerful man (who also happens to be conservative and a professing Christian) having an affair. Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina sort of disappeared on Father’s Day weekend. His wife didn’t know where he was. His staff, […]
Continue reading...Did you know that’s what the writer Dorothy Parker had put on her headstone? She was a clever gal, for sure, and I am a great admirer of her writing. Well, I need to say “pardon my dust” for the next week or so as I update the site. Don’t panic, your comments are all still […]
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I have been a fan of Dr. Donald Joy for several years, and had the privilege of meeting him at a conference where my he and my husband were speaking. I had read his book on bonding and relationships, and the first chapter, “Who Is Holding Your Trampoline?” grabbed me and never let me go. […]
Continue reading...Here’s the eleventh commandment: Thou shalt have a sense of humor! I thought this movie trailer from a 30’s movie might be entertaining! Women Are Like That portrays a “libertine” wife having to be taught to behave by her husband. I’ll bet many of us wish the roles were reversed here, don’t you? I know […]
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“We must meet our reverses boldly…. And not suffer them to frighten us. We shall act the play out, and live misfortune down” -David Copperfield I’m always looking for words or phrases that seem to grab my heart and articulate how I feel about a particular subject; for me, this line from the book David […]
Continue reading...Renee Dallas has been in women’s ministry since 1992. She works with her husband Joe Dallas at CloudFire Ministries where she Continue Reading
“Oh fetch back that duty which thou hast sent away, though least in thy eye, yet, it may be, it is that which God means to crown with His Continue Reading
After months of punditry and political ads that have you seeing cross-eyed, November 6th is upon us. At this moment of truth, what should a Continue Reading
I’m trapped in a house of testosterone. One husband, two sons, and not a scrap of femininity in sight. As the sole female in a man’s world, I’m just Continue Reading
When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, our country was in the middle of the Civil War. Loved ones were being lost daily on Continue Reading
I was up a little late one night watching CNN waiting for a phone call from my husband, who was on the road to a speaking engagement. As the Continue Reading
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