Roles

Super Bowl – Super Question

My husband drove to his home town to watch the Super Bowl with his Dad. He left me at home on the couch nursing a cold. Although I had little interest in the game — and couldn’t have even told you which teams were playing, I flicked on the game to watch the commercials and [...]

7Feb2010 | Mary Kassian | 3 comments | Continued

Wise vs. Wild Contrast #9: Roles

It used to be that the girls waited for the guys to call them. A female phoning a male was very forward and inappropriate. Social etiquette stipulated that the male was the pursuer. But the feminist movement changed all that. Women became the pursuers.

16Oct2009 | Mary Kassian | 4 comments | Continued

Secrets of 50-Year Marriages

Recently, Homemakers.com published an article on The Secrets of 50-Year Marriages. The author, 38 year-old Amy Pulsifer, has had “three failed attempts at wedded bliss.” So she admits having a vested interest in finding out whether fulfilling, long-term marriages are even possible for our generation.Â Pulsifer interviewed six couples,Â “Real experts, who have been there [...]

23Jul2009 | Mary Kassian | 2 comments | Continued

On Doormats, Brain Trashing and Blow Up Dolls

I got a big kick out of the comments floating around the blogosphere after the True Woman conference last October. Many were astonished that anyone could possibly believe in the Bible’s directives for a Christian wife to cultivate a submissive spirit… They concluded that the only people who would promote such an outrageous, horribly outdated notion are selfish, abusive, boorish men, or terribly misguided women who are passive, docile, and slightly brain-dead… a few bulbs short of a chandelier, so to speak.

5May2009 | Mary Kassian | 9 comments | Continued

Work it Out, Girl!

On his recently-released CD Storiez, Christian rapper shai linne encourages women to work out their womanhood in a radical, counter-cultural way. In Work it Out,” the Philadelphia-born artist contrasts the Bible’s vision of the Gospel-transformed woman with the sexualized, narcissistic and radically individualistic woman of pop culture.

4Apr2009 | Mary Kassian | 2 comments | Continued