You don’t have to be Wonder Woman…
I have a long history with Wonder Woman, mostly involving comic books and a campy ’70s TV show starring beauty queen Lynda Carter. Besides being tireless and powerful, somehow Wonder Woman’s lipstick was always a shiny perfect red and her meticulously styled hair was always in place. And on top of fearlessly vanquishing evil week [...]
Good Books on Breast Cancer
A friend just asked me for recommendations for books on breast cancer. Here are my picks: Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book (Susan Love, MD) A good all around manual on breast cancer and treatment. Recommended by my doctors and my surgeon. Just Get Me Through This: The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer (Deborah A. Cohen) [...]
Get Offa’ That Couch
Have you ever felt stuck in your life? Me, too. I loved my comfy couch, and my safe life, for a long time. But at some point it became like a trap, like a safe warm cocoon that I couldn’t break out of. Do you remember when you were a kid and you longed for [...]
Dancing in my ruby slippers
"Why shouldn’t we work alongside Jesus to restore men and women to harmonious partnership with one another? Is it because it’s completely impossible, or is it because we don’t realize that Christ wants to help?" (from Ruby Slippers) I hope you’ve enjoyed this four-part interview series with Jonalyn Grace Fincher, author of Ruby Slippers. She [...]
These Ruby Slippers Don’t Pinch
"Feminine guidance is abundant today; it is regularly updated into modern stuff like what the hot girls wear, what the sexy women do in bed, and what Martha Stewart does for her Halloween parties. The church has prescriptions for femininity too–only ours are usually more dogmatic and romantic than popular culture’s versions … A dose [...]
Another Ruby Slipper
"…The word God used to describe woman is a word more often used to describe the delivering, warring, protecting, supporting, shielding, capable, brilliant help of God Almighty. It is a sunbeam that traces our image to the Triune God." (Jonalyn Grace Fincher) Here’s more from my interview with Ruby Slippers author Jonalyn Fincher, as she [...]
Try on these ruby slippers!
"Christianity…endowed the human female with a soul." (Simone De Beauvoir, quoted in Ruby Slippers) There’s a buzz growing about a new book called Ruby Slippers: How the soul of a woman brings her home. A blogger friend of mine recently voted Ruby Slippers the best nonfiction book of 2007. Why? The author, Jonalyn Fincher, [...]
Chasing Sophia, Part 3
Proverbs is one of my favorite books in the Bible, and I’ve always been intrigued by the first couple of chapters, where Wisdom is personified as a woman. The pagan community has noticed these Scriptures, too, and has used them to argue that the Bible supports goddess spirituality. So, in the third and last part [...]
Chasing Sophia, Part 2
"Women are looking for new ways to know themselves and to connect with God, two forms of knowledge that are intrinsically linked. Many have left traditional religion in frustration that it didn’t reflect their real lives, turning instead to alternative spiritualities that purport to honor women’s experience." (from www.lilianbarger.com) "Chasing Sophia is a wise guide [...]
Chasing Sophia, Part 1
“I know many women who have left the church for Goddess worship and Wicca, or who have abandoned the Bible for the Gospel According to Mary. I will be giving every one of them a copy of this book, which provocatively suggests that the Christian story can address women’s longings they have for a spirituality [...]
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