A La Carte (3/29)

  • Tim Challies
  • 03/29/07
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Thursday March 29, 2007

Church: Has anyone heard of these, dad and daughter purity balls?

Book: James White’s new book, written and published in just 30 days, is just about ready.

Gadget: I want one of these. I’m sure you do too.

Du Jour: John Piper writes about things his father learned.

Religion: ABC asks whether having God on a person’s side makes a difference in justifying war.

Photos: Dan Cruver has begun an interesting photo collection.

Comments (3)

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a comment from Aaron S. Wilson • 03/29 @ 1:07pm
› visit my web site.

I’ve heard of the purity balls - but am more familiar with the Princess and the Kiss book & resource. We’ve featured it before on Revive Our Hearts

Sadly, Mary Zeiss Stange (professor of women’s studies and religion at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) doesn’t think too highly of them - here is part of her concluding thoughts from this recent USA Today article.

“…the assumption that the father is the Lord’s stand-in in the household is as dangerous as is the idea that his “undefiled” daughter is a princess.

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a comment from John Willis • 03/29 @ 5:22pm
› visit my web site.

Our local CareNet pregnancy center holds one every year. It’s fairly well attended and seems to make a big impression on those attending.

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a comment from Puddleglum • 03/30 @ 8:41pm

Those purity things creep me out and they also creep out my very chaste daughter. Yuckk!

Love your children. Establish a good relationship with them and you won’t need such shallow artifices. Nor will she. Really!