Posted in Men and Women and Sex on June 18, 2008 | 14 Comments »
This should be my final vacation repost. Fresh posts should recommence on Friday.
He stood before me a solid column of fleece. The head to toe gray sweat suit contrasted against the stark white cap cocked at an odd angle on his head.
I was shopping and this young man, probably around 20, was my cashier. He [...]
Posted in Family Life, Men and Women and Sex on June 16, 2008 | 82 Comments »
I won’t be updating The Available Light with new material today. I am on vacation. Instead, I am reposting this post from spring 2007. The best part of this post is in the comment thread. Don’t miss it.
I am beginning a new project dealing with the personal and social consequences of divorce.
The first resource I’ve [...]
Posted in Family Life, Men and Women and Sex on June 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
To be a man, especially a family man, is to bear responsibility for others. No matter how much a man loves those whom he guides and protects and provides for, the burden of those responsibilities can, from time to time, grow so great it’s easy to lose heart, to get discouraged. The challenge to persevere [...]
Posted in Family Life, Men and Women and Sex on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I noticed this post of Rod’s the other day and couldn’t help but agree. Rod writes about his experience with his 17-month-old daughter, Nora.
Rod wrote:
I was sitting at the table talking to Julie when Nora… toddles over with a new shirt Julie bought her today.
She holds it out, and looks up at me [...]
Posted in Men and Women and Sex on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The discussion sparked by the questions I posed here and here continues.
A friend wrote this to me yesterday in an email. I publish it here with her permission.
I believe this issue is far bigger for Christian women than simply frantic concern over having our rights unviolated regarding freedom from the judgement of others. I would [...]
Posted in Men and Women and Sex on February 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
To blog is to be misunderstood.
I’ve appreciated the ongoing discussion sparked by the questions I laid out earlier in the week even though they’ve gone in a direction I hadn’t anticipated.
They’ve become discussions about female modesty more than about the larger point I was hoping to make. That’s okay, just not what I had been [...]
Posted in Men and Women and Sex on February 18, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I have followed with great interest the comments on the discussion threads here and here.
I raised these questions to see if others agreed with my hypothesis that most young women (and practically everyone else) in America tend to value their supposed right to behave however they like without negative comment more than anything else, including [...]
Posted in Men and Women and Sex on February 14, 2008 | 78 Comments »
Thinking about the discussion thread on yesterday’s post, I refined the question.
What I’d prefer to know is whether the normal American young woman would be more offended by a strange man who touched her in a non-threatening, though obviously sexual, way, like say a pat on the backside or by a strange man who told [...]
Posted in Men and Women and Sex on February 13, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Do you think your average young woman in America would be more offended by a strange man telling her, even in polite terms, that he wants to have sex with her or by his telling her the way she is dressed is immodest or immoral?
What do you think and why?
I’ll save my answer for later.
Posted in Men and Women and Sex on February 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What makes a man?
The retirement of Bobby Knight this week occasioned some thoughts on this question from S.T. Karnick at his blog. I generally agree with S.T.’s opinions, but on this topic he leaves unspoken some important points that must be made explicit when we talk about the shape of masculinity in a feminized, therapeutic [...]
