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Last month the famous editor of Cosmopolitan, Helen Gurley Brown, passed away. She was a pioneer of sorts in the feminist movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. During that time, I was an impressionable young preteen with a fascination for fashion magazines, intent on studying my budding womanhood and looking for role models anywhere I […]
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This week some walls came-a-tumblin’ down. Inside the sanctuary of my church, we began a three day tear down—after 30 years of non-stop use, our church home is being remodeled, reworked, and being called The Restoration Project. A few hundred of us showed up with tools, axes, gloves and elbow grease, and the demolition began. […]
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I have always thought the end of a conference was one of the hardest times to navigate: we’ve been in a cocoon-like world, a back-to-the-womb time. We expressed, received and gave. Then the inevitable happened: we came down from the mountain to face a huge paradigm shift and a series of ups and downs. (Mine […]
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Some of you have probably noticed I haven’t posted in awhile. I’ve had every intention of whipping out my inspiration and astounding you all with my brilliance and insight. But my right brain would have none of it. Can anyone relate to this? The pent up emotion, the sadness, the joy—the exasperation! The brain-freeze. The […]
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One of the things that I find comes up in coversations with wives over and over again is the issue of a husband’s ambivalence towards his recovery. On the one hand they seem to say, “Yes, I’m sorry for what I’ve done, and I don’t like the consequences of it.” and on the other side, […]
Continue reading...Renee Dallas has been in women’s ministry since 1992. She works with her husband Joe Dallas at CloudFire Ministries where she Continue Reading
“Oh fetch back that duty which thou hast sent away, though least in thy eye, yet, it may be, it is that which God means to crown with His Continue Reading
After months of punditry and political ads that have you seeing cross-eyed, November 6th is upon us. At this moment of truth, what should a Continue Reading
I’m trapped in a house of testosterone. One husband, two sons, and not a scrap of femininity in sight. As the sole female in a man’s world, I’m just Continue Reading
When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, our country was in the middle of the Civil War. Loved ones were being lost daily on Continue Reading
I was up a little late one night watching CNN waiting for a phone call from my husband, who was on the road to a speaking engagement. As the Continue Reading
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