Archive for Guest Author
Several guest authors contribute to the Girls Gone Wise Blog. Mary encourages you to follow the links in the article to find out more about these authors and their resources.
The Playground of Your Mind
When it comes to inner purity, our thought-lives could be compared to a playground. One moment we climb the ladder toward victory and the next we’re nudged over the edge and can’t stop the downward spiral until we’ve fallen back where we started.
22Jul2010 | Guest Author | 2 comments | Continued
The End of Men?
What does it mean for large sectors of our society to become virtual matriarchies? How do we prepare the church to deal with such a world while maintaining biblical models of manhood and womanhood? …The real issue here is not the end of men, but the disappearance of manhood.
8Jul2010 | Guest Author | 7 comments | Continued
The Case Against Marriage
The Newsweek article represents what may be the most direct journalistic attack on marriage in our times. Though only an op-ed column, it presents arguments that had to date been made largely, if not exclusively, outside of mainstream circles. Consider this column an opening salvo in a battle to finish marriage off, once and for all.
25Jun2010 | Guest Author | 2 comments | Continued
Can Bad Boys be Godly Men?
There’s the intellectual type, the athletic guy, the funny man, and then there are the bad boys. Oh, the bad boys. These guys are different. They’re smooth, confident, mysterious and gave me a flurry of butterflies… Many women have the pull towards bad boys. What is it about them that attracts us?
16Apr2010 | Guest Author | 12 comments | Continued
First GGW Book Review
Kudo’s to Kimberly Davidson, who has the illustrious distinction of posting the FIRST review of my new Girls Gone Wise book on her blog, “Thoughts on the Word.”
You can read her review below. You may also want to check out a follow up post, in which she adds some personal reflections on how she was [...]
Where are the Young Men?
A visit to your local college or university campus is likely to reveal that a revolution has taken place. On many campuses, young women now outnumber young men, and a gender gap of momentous importance is staring us in the face.
10Feb2010 | Guest Author | 4 comments | Continued
The Modesty of Personal Restraint
As the spring season blooms, talk about modesty heats up in Christian conversation as fast as the weather. Bloggers, radio hosts, and the rest of us lament the shorter hemlines, deeper necklines, exposed bellies, and bare bottoms in thong bikinis at the neighborhood swim club. But immodesty deals with a lot more than revealing too much skin. We are just as prone—if not more so—to overexpose what’s under our skin.
15Apr2009 | Guest Author | 3 comments | Continued
Curse of the Good Girl
The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment
Authentic Beauty
Girls Gone Skank
Thrill of the Chaste
Re-imagining God in the Shack
