Doctrine of the Family

I heard an interesting thought that I hadn’t quite grasped yesterday during church. While someone was being set apart, the speaker for the blessing mentioned that while the world is growing increasingly wicked, the Law of Opposition demands that the world also grows equally righteous. I had often heard the idea before, but never in [...]

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Importance of Marriage

In my continued efforts to be silent no longer, I thought I’d post this nice piece on marriage written by a former divorce judge from Georgia.
In so many ways, she nails it right on the head.

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SI Swimsuit Issue

Last year I started a category called Offended Silence based on a blog written by my sister-in-law. I vowed then that I would no longer be silently offended by the smut I and my family are regularly exposed to in advertising. I haven’t done much with it, but my annual battle against something I absolutely [...]

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Hypocritical Carl’s Jr.

Carl’s Jr has recently created a flap over a commercial that is largely sexually explicit in nature. I sent Carl’s Jr an e-mail stating my stance on that kind of advertising, and I found something very interesting and, frankly, hypocritical.
In my e-mail, I referenced the sexual nature of the ad and the inappropriate sexualization of women. [...]

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