Relationships
Book Blog 17: Sweet Talkin’ Woman
She was a sweet-talkin’ woman. She knew how to turn on the charm, butter him up, and get him to do her bidding. The way a woman uses words is another point of contrast between a wild and a wise woman. In this book blog, you’ll find out that using sweet talk is a strategy [...]
27Jul2010 | Mary Kassian | 1 comment | Continued
Book Blog 16: Cross Your Heart
What happens if you cross your heart with your right hand, and cross your fingers with your left? Do you still have to keep your promise? What if you’re really mad at the person with whom you’ve made the agreement? Can you get out of it then? The Wild Thing of Proverbs 7 thought so. [...]
20Jul2010 | Mary Kassian | 0 comments | Continued
Book Blog 13: Clingy Girlfriend Syndrome
My son and his friends have an acronym for guys who are being smothered by needy girlfriends. It’s “CGS,” which stands for “Clingy Girlfriend Syndrome.” Some girls are so needy for attention and affirmation that they cling to men like plastic wrap to a piece of raw meat. But women who try to quench their [...]
1Jul2010 | Mary Kassian | 13 comments | Continued
If Bella Were My Daughter (Take 2)
Having many more miles on my odometer than young girls, I’ve observed hundreds–maybe thousands–of relationships… both good and bad. And certain behaviors raise warning signs. Certain things set off alarm bells in my spirit and indicate to me that a relationship is not good–and will likely be destructive in the end.
30Jun2010 | Mary Kassian | 6 comments | Continued
Shedding Some Light on Twilight
If Bella were my daughter, several alarm bells would be going off in my head about her relationship with Edward. I would not approve. Regardless of how “in love” she felt, I would argue that this romance was not good for her, and would not end well. It would ultimately be bad and not good for her soul. There are eight very clear danger signs in their relationship that I would flag.
30Jun2010 | Mary Kassian | 142 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
Mr. Right When You Need Him
The promo copy asks, “Wouldn’t it be nice if you knew you always had a man in your life who would not only be there to listen to you, but also agree with your every syllable on command? With Mr. Right When You Need Him… You call the shots!”
3Feb2010 | Mary Kassian | 0 comments | Continued
Betty Boop Man-Training Kit
With capital letters and an exclamation mark, Betty Boop’s modern Man-Training Kit encourages women to “WHIP HIM GOOD!” — The innocent looking big-eyed Betty Boop doll sports a formidable black whip in her hand for that very purpose.
27Jan2010 | Mary Kassian | 4 comments | Continued
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 | 17 comments | Continued
Wise vs. Wild Contrast #19: Sustainability
Have you noticed how prevalent disrespect toward men has become? In the sixties, women complained that men victimized and disrespected them. Now the tables have turned. Our sons, husbands, fathers, and men-friends are subjected to malicious jokes and attitudes that wouldn’t be tolerated toward any other group. Women portray them asselfish, lazy, inconsiderate, hormone-crazed buffoons. They gleefully slander and tear them down simply because they are male.
1Dec2009 | Mary Kassian | 1 comment | Continued
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 | 8 comments | Continued
Wise vs. Wild Contrast #18: Influence
I’m amazed at the number of women that think they are immune to the power of negative influence. They think they’re strong enough, and that they’ve walked with the Lord long enough, to be above the threat. So they start taking foolish risks in relationships. They let down their defenses, transgress boundaries, crash and burn-and then wonder how it happened to them.
20Nov2009 | Mary Kassian | 2 comments | Continued
Wise vs. Wild Contrast #17: Speech
We’ve all heard the old saying, “flattery will get you nowhere.” But the truth is, flattery works, and works remarkably well. Call it what you will-apple-polishing, boot-licking, back-scratching, soft-soaping, currying favor, toadying, candy-talking, buttering-up, kissing-up, managing up, or a host of other more crass terms -smooth talk can and often does pay off. In the hands of someone who knows how to use it, it can be a dangerous manipulative weapon.
19Nov2009 | Mary Kassian | 0 comments | Continued
Are You Lonely?
Albert Einstein once said, “It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.” You can be the most active woman in church-volunteering yourself like crazy and hosting every party-but be riddled with loneliness.
What is loneliness? Ironically it’s not being alone. The strange thing about loneliness is that we feel it [...]
Survived the Photoshoot
The end is nigh. The end of the Girls Gone Wise book, that is. So a couple days ago I went for the obligatory photo shoot that goes along with the publication of a new resource. I told my photographer friend, the very talented Julie James, of James Design Studio, that I wanted to do [...]
16Oct2009 | Mary Kassian | 5 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
