Category Archives: Women
One Courageous Response to Gendercide – The War Against Females, Part 2 of 2
In the previous post we introduced you to Ana Santos, a dear friend. Here is more of her story in her own words. The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim … Continue reading
God Plus Ordinary People = Impact
Over the years I have been struck by the fact that God inhabits the ordinary. The birth of a child is an everyday miracle. God often uses unknown people to change their community or world. Dallas Willard captures this concept … Continue reading
“Fighting for Our Daughters” – Only Dangerous Christians Need Apply
In August, I wrote about visiting a city church movement in Toowoomba, Australia. One of the leaders I met is Letitia Shelton, founder of City Women, the church’s response to the plight of females in Toowoomba. Letitia has written a book, Fighting for Our … Continue reading
Just Because They’re Girls: Evil Worse than the Slave Trade & the Holocaust
In a dark dungeon I stood with a broken heart on centuries-old dry excrement. I was visiting the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, a transshipping point for African captives in the British Atlantic slave trade. In each dungeon, hundreds of … Continue reading
Toowoomba: Churches Together Transforming a City
We in the Disciple Nations Alliance regard the local church as God’s primary instrument to bring transformation to its neighborhood and community. Yet we also argue that local churches in a city need to band together to be “the church … Continue reading
Abortion’s Bitter Legacy
A few weeks ago, I posted “On My Birth There Was No Singing,” exposing gendercide in India. Now Jonathan V. Last, senior writer at the Weekly Standard, writes a review of Mara Hvistendahl’s book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of … Continue reading
On My Birth There Was No Singing: Gendercide in India
In a recent Associated Press article, Despite Economic Growth, India Lets Its Girls Die, Muneeza Naqvi tells the story of how Indian society allows baby girls to die from neglect and starvation. Despite laws against such things as sex-selective abortions … Continue reading
Motherhood: The Noble Vocation
We live in an age when the anti-maternal influence of modern feminism is reaching its zenith. The result, celebrated by atheists, neo-pagans and negative-population growth champions is a demographic winter (the effect of birth rates lower than needed to maintain … Continue reading
Hand That Rocks the Cradle, part 4 of 4
See below for the final session of Darrow Miller’s Wilberforce lectures on Nurturing the Nations: Proclaiming the Dignity of Women in Building Healthy Cultures. You’ll hear Darrow address: The foundation of maleness and femaleness is the Trinity. Men and women have … Continue reading