http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Thinking Christian Women en-us pbsor@windstream.net 2008-08-28T11:55:49-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004523.html Continuing to quote from Pepper Schwarz, Ph. D.'s Love Between Equals: The standard against which to compare the possibilities for marital friendship is the age-old standard of platonic friendship...Friends choose each other repeatedly during the lifetime of a relationship. Nothing... 4523@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Marriage 2008-08-28T11:55:49-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004517.html When I was a kid, I thought I'd marry somebody just like my dad, because I admired him so much and because I thought you should find somebody who can take care of you. But I would never be the... 4517@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Marriage 2008-08-26T11:33:00-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004516.html This weekend I was involved in a training equipping me to teach young women about the pitfalls of sliding into bad relationships without thoughtful, decisive contemplation. For example, cohabitation and casual sex will lead to constraints such as isolation from... 4516@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Sarah 2008-08-25T13:33:30-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004515.html I'm on vacation...... 4515@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ 2008-08-24T09:56:54-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004512.html is going on at the Complegalitarian blog. Some great points being made in the comments; go on over and have a look, or jump in if you're so inclined.... 4512@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Feminism 2008-08-21T11:14:09-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004510.html Continuing as before from p. 44 of Love Between Equals, Teamwork encourages equality, and equality nurtures intimacy. Without equality, subordinates proceed cautiously, carefully, sometimes dishonestly; senior partners can act spontaneously, for the more powerful person experiences few costs for speaking... 4510@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ 2008-08-20T19:40:54-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004506.html Once again I apologize for problems with our website. The spam monster that lives in the basement is apparently now kidnapping innocent comments and holding them without ransom. Having sadly given those up for lost, I've called for reinforcements to... 4506@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ 2008-08-17T11:17:36-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004504.html Last week I quoted from p. 44 of Pepper Schwartz's Love Between Equals. Continuing, she writes, Of course, women in previous decades felt they understood their husbands, but the whole system changes when husbands also know wives. In the traditional... 4504@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ 2008-08-16T10:03:12-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004502.html As I read yet another fabulous post by John Schroeder in which he quoted Randy Elrod as saying, Servant leaders have the ability to provide a new type of leadership. A collaborative mentoring and releasing of people with varied and... 4502@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ 2008-08-10T22:57:37-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004501.html For the first time in history, the labor market and changing societal values have made equality between the sexes possible. As men and women experience life similarly and need to rely on one another, deep friendship is not too much... 4501@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Marriage 2008-08-10T22:42:33-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004500.html our nation's entire approach to crime and criminal justice minimizes the moral dimension to the crime problem! ...exclaims Chuck Colson in a recent Breakpoint commentary. The left, he says, has "insisted that poverty and oppression are the chief causes of... 4500@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Christian living 2008-08-07T13:17:12-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004499.html My official alma mater is Boilermaker country in the midwest (Purdue), but I do adopt Arizona State University as a kind of "aunt" when it comes to schools I've attended and have a particular soft spot for (aside from the... 4499@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Bioethics 2008-08-07T02:08:25-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004498.html Today I was listening to Alistair Begg talk about women and their adornments. (1 Timothy 2:9) While its one thing to dress "nice" for church, he suggested it is no place to "dress to the nines." Of course there is... 4498@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Sarah 2008-08-05T20:29:46-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004497.html for today's woman. It won the title of Britain's oddest book title of 2007 (and I would add most clever). If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs This might be the best piece of advice I've... 4497@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ 2008-08-05T11:34:16-05:00 http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/archives/004495.html We talk about many things: parenting, philosophy, cooking, theology, music, pop culture, Scripture, and much more. But in the spirit of Dorothy Sayers, we may differ in a great many ways, but we find similarities as human and in the... 4495@http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/intellectuelle/ Blogosphere 2008-08-01T22:49:15-05:00