By Rachel Ware I made a New Year’s Resolution this year to delete my Facebook account for the month of January. Freeing? Definitely. Difficult?  Embarrassingly, more than I expected. Eye-opening?  Absolutely. I’ve never been crazy about Facebook.  But, I am a product of my age. In college, I sought to convince our Dean of Students...

  By Staci Eastin If I had to pick a theme for Season 4 of Downton Abbey, I would pick identity. Many characters are struggling with who they are in an ever-changing world. Lady Mary believes that the only good in her was the part of her that loved Matthew, and she worries that it...

By Megan Hill Like most Christian families with young children, our daily life is filled with directions. Eat this. Drink that. Say you’re sorry. Please be quiet. Please speak up. Come here. Go there. Stop. Start. Wait. As the mother of three sons, I exercise my role of authority over them in thousands of ways...

By Rondi Lauterbach Sometimes I act bewitched, or at least superstitious. I live as if I’m under a curse. When I lose my favorite jacket, I don’t just retrace my steps to try to find it, I think, “Oh no, here we go again.”  My phone disappears next. Frantically searching every possible hiding place, I muse,...

By Christina Fox   “I just don’t know what to do.” I said to my husband. “I feel so helpless.” One of my boys has been going through something and I don’t know what to do to help him. I feel inadequate, helpless, and insufficient. And I don’t like it. One of my greatest struggles...

By Katie McCoy “There is a moral panic in America over young women’s sexuality and it’s been breathing new life into a very old idea.” So says Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com and author of The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women. Dubbed the “poster-girl for third-wave feminism,” Valenti claims...