Female Beauty Matters
Women resent the fact that men are so attracted to beauty, while men resent the fact that women often don’t make the effort to properly attend to it. So how do we resolve the impasse?
Category: I Am Woman
What’s a Woman Worth?
Women and girls in China are being sold, killed and abused by the millions. How do we stop this? What is the answer to giving worth and dignity to women?
Book Blog 14: Shop Till You Drop
Calling all shopaholics… Is the pride-and-joy item in your closet a pair of Manolo Blahniks? Do you like to have a look at the label and see designer names like Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Armani, or Versace? If so, you may have a lot in common with the woman of Proverbs 7. She had impeccable [...]
Book Blog 4: That Girl’s Got Attitude!
Girl Power! Girls Rule! I am Woman hear me ROAR!… Pop culture upholds a saucy, sassy, my-way-or-highway, karate-chopping, male-kicking attitude as the ideal for women. But the Bible portrays a loud, defiant disposition as an ugly, undesirable by-product of sin. It upholds a markedly different type of attitude for women as “very precious” in the [...]
Wise vs. Wild Contrast #14: Possessions
“‘Smart Girls Get More” is a wildly successful ad campaign that promotes the United Kingdom’s best-selling young women’s magazine, “More.”It inundates British women with the idea that if they are smart, they will get more-more men, more sex, more celebrity gossip, more beauty, more fashion, more products, and, of course, more of the magazine that supplies all the latest and greatest information on these pleasures. “Cuz Smart Girls Get More!”
Wise vs. Wild Contrast #13: Neediness
“CGS?” I asked, alarmed, “What’s CGS?” It sounded like a terrible communicable disease. I had visions of their friend lying quarantined in a hospital room, hooked up to a respirator, with tubes sticking out from all over his body, surrounded by masked doctors and nurses talking in hushed tones.
True Feminine Beauty
True beauty, in a nutshell, is found in a soul completely surrendered to Jesus Christ, a heart consumed by Him alone, and a life eagerly poured out for His sake. That is when our lives will sparkle with lasting feminine loveliness. That is when we will trade the counterfeit beauty of pop-culture for a beauty that stands out among other women like a lily among thorns.
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
In the sixties, when Betty Friedan diagnosed her fellow wives and daughters as the victims of “the problem with no name,” American women reported themselves happier, on average, than did men. Today, that statistic has reversed. Male happiness has inched up, while female happiness has declined…. Feminism pumped its best medicine into woman’s veins, but somehow, it merely exacerbated the disease.
Beauty at Any Cost
Today’s women are pursuing beauty at any cost. That’s the conclusion of a YWCA report on the consequences of America’s beauty obsession on women and girls. “From new levels of spending on cosmetic alteration to health risks and to the emergence of a ‘mean girls’ culture, the lifelong burden of an unattainable beauty and body image is taking a terrible toll in all areas of women’s lives, from economic well-being to health to interpersonal relationships.”
I Am Woman
“I am strong! I am invincible! I am WOMAN!” I remember striding down the school hallway with a couple of girlfriends, belting out the words of Helen Reddy’s chart-topping song. We were perched on the verge of womanhood. And we were confident that we would be the first generation to get the meaning of womanhood right.
High Heeled Empowerment
The latest women’s shoe trend features five, six, and even seven-inched heels. According to an article in my morning paper, top designer Christian Louboutin has lauded the trend of super high heels as a sign of women “empowering themselves.” I don’t get it. How is a woman wobbling down the boulevard with sore feet and a pained expression on her face a symbol of empowerment?
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.
