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The Abstinent Vampire Attraction

Vampires aside, last year’s block-buster movie, Twilight, has provoked some interesting research. New research from the University of Missouri shows that the reason teenage girls have fallen hard for the Twilight book and film series has to do with its portrayal of a traditional, abstinent romantic relationship. In the series, vampire Edward Cullen doesn’t want [...]

3Dec2009 | Mary Kassian | 11 comments | Continued
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Sexual Purity Starts at Seven

By the time she is sixteen, a Christian girl has a 50/50 chance of surviving life without the experiences of sexual sin, eating disorders and depression. Parents who “did everything right” can’t understand how it happened when their daughter falls on the wrong side of the stats. What they don’t know is that they may [...]

30Nov2009 | Dannah Gresh | 3 comments | Continued
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Living with a Hope Deferred – Part 3

My favorite moment was when Dr. Dobson asked me how I handle going out in public without a date. I had totally forgotten he asked me this when we recorded these programs last April. So as I stood in the kitchen listening to this show, I found myself pausing with my coffee spoon in mid-air, wondering what I said in response.

12Nov2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued
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Living With a Hope Deferred – Part 2

Today is a continuation of yesterday’s conversation with Dr.Dobson. Candice Watters and I discuss some of the challenges to trusting God that single women face (such as childlessness, which is not exclusive to single women)… His faithfulness is what I have to reassure anyone who is panicking that they might end up in a similar position.

11Nov2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued
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Living with a Hope Deferred – Part 1

Here’s a link to the first of a three-part Focus on the Family radio series that I recorded with my friend and fellow author, Candice Watters, earlier this year. It is titled, “Singleness: Living With a Hope Deferred.” As the author of two books about marriage and family and numerous articles for single women, Candice [...]

10Nov2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued
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Sexy enough to keep him waiting?

“I’m SEXY enough…to keep you waiting.” That’s the copy on a skimpy new tank top created by the Candies brand. Released as a part of the Candies Foundation, which exists in part to reduce teen pregnancy and encourage abstinence, it is one abstinence shirt you don’t want your daughter to wear. It sends a mixed [...]

6Oct2009 | Dannah Gresh | 2 comments | Continued
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Are you dating your daughter?

The Internet, magazines, fashion trends and television are courting your daughter and defining her sense of beauty. And by the world’s definition this can include anything from thong underwear to being an impossible size O.The best way to fight back is parent-child connectedness-spending time with her! You can educate her, send her to Bible study, take her to church and even sit her in front of a counselor but none of those things can come close to the power of mother/daughter connectedness.

6Jul2009 | Dannah Gresh | 1 comment | Continued
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Is Your Teen “Sexting?”

One out of every five teenagers surveyed, admitted to receiving or sending nude photos. That’s called “sexting.” Participating in either sending or receiving can result in criminal charges if the photos involve students under age 16. Recent news coverage has illuminated the controversial charges of young, innocent looking young men and women who have faced [...]

24Jun2009 | Dannah Gresh | 2 comments | Continued
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Radiant Singleness – Krissy’s Story

Even if He never brought a man into her life, Krissy resolved to remain fully set-apart for Him. Jesus Christ, not the hope of an earthly romance, was the focus of her existence and the source of her fulfillment. Even without an earthly love story, her Heavenly Prince was more than enough. She wasn’t living for guys. She wasn’t living for an earthly romance. She was living for Him.

18Jun2009 | Leslie Ludy | 15 comments | Continued
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Surplus of Singles

Lots of verbiage fills corners of the Internet and entire rows of bookstores about the “pesky problem” of an excess number of single adults these days. In this article, Carolyn McCulley addresses the question of the phenomenon of single adults in our churches.

9Jun2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 2 comments | Continued
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Home, Sweet Mission Field (for singles)

If you and/or your local church are looking for ways to evangelize, opening your home is one of the best methods for reaching the lost. Most of us, however, are not using our homes as we should to reach our neighbors, friends, and relatives. Tragically, many of us don’t even know our neighbors. Yet through hospitality, we can meet our neighbors and be a lighthouse in spiritually dark neighborhoods.

20May2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued
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Singular Hospitality

Lydia was a single woman, head of a household consisting mainly of servants. It was probably in her house that the first church in Philippi began to meet. Perhaps it was in her house that the church gathered to take up a collection to send Paul as he endured house arrest in Rome…It’s hard to know what precisely happened in Lydia’s home, except for this fact — her first act of ministry as a believer was to offer her home and hospitality.

11May2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 1 comment | Continued
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