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A Just Anger

It is time to get angry. Fuel is continuously added to my fire. I am angry that so many women are struggling with their self worth, and destroying their body, health and soul while they cope. I am not mad at the women, but I am mad at Satan for telling these lies over and over again.

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"Can We Stop Fretting About Modesty?"

Everybody has different standards of modesty, and – wait for it – that’s okay. The Church has never defined what types of clothing are acceptable, and for good reason.

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Become Fully Alive

Hit with depression and a sense of living two different lives, Topher Darragh struggled to become a man who was "fully alive," but four years at a Catholic university and a tattoo changed all of that. Read Topher's encouragement to imitate Christ at college...and risk it all for His love.

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A Woodshed. A Salad Dressing Aisle. A Chapel.

By Emily Rogers The devil is constantly saying those same words to us to imprison us within the confines of our minds.  He spits in our face the very same foul, seething words, “You think you can, but you can’t!” 

 

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Something Greater is Yet to Come

Beth Puleo Her world was rocked when a persistent brain tumor kept fighting against her as a child, but Beth fought harder. Radiation poisoned her, doctors told her she wouldn't live, and she had to quietly watch her father die as her own life seemed to be slipping away.  

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What To Do When it Hurts Like Hell

Know, please please please know, that greater things are yet to come. God has great things in store for you, and yes, you will cry a lot until then. And yes, it truly and magnificently sucks.

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Henry James And Flirting

This novella which put Henry James on the map, author of The Turn of the Screw, presented America with either its greatest literary flirt or holy innocent...and debates on Daisy's character still get vicious in university classrooms.

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"Friends First"

The following excerpt is taken from David Bates's blog, Restless Pilgrim.  "Friends First" is a thoughtful blog post on why Bates believes it best to forgo this dating approach. I think the majority of us women will agree that it's easier to argue for this approach. It makes total sense. But Bates points out some fatal pitfalls.

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"If God's In Control Why Am I Trying So Hard?"

Christopher Abel, a Protestant seminarian, attempts to answer the question that plague many of us: "When should we fight for what we want? And when should we wait for God to act? " This article, published on ze awesome Relevant.com, was released in September 2013.

 

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Paper Towns

I fell in love with John Green this past summer when I listened to The Fault in Our Stars as I drove back and forth from New Jersey (a 3.5 hour drive), crying behind the wheel at what I’ve dubbed, ‘The New Walk to Remember.’

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Love is a Mystery

Love is a mystery that transforms everything it touches into things beautiful and pleasing to God.  The love of God makes a soul free.  She is like a queen; she knows no slavish compulsion; she sets about everything with great freedom of soul, because the love which dwells in her incites her to action. 

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Choosing Your Child's Name...Five Years in Advance

We all do it, too. We update our friends on new names we like, we contemplate themes for our big families (are flower names...Rose, Lilly...to hippie for middle names?), we scribble new ideas on napkins so we can add it to the list, and we are all in agreement that the future hubby will just have to deal with the names we chose five years in advance.

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Why Journal

There's something about blogs that can never replace the beautiful and romantic art of journaling. An avid journaler since I was eight, I've filled twenty-two volumes with ridiculous episodes of my life.

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What's Wrong With Modesty

The reason our skirts were shortened in the first place was for practicality. Skirts were difficult to manage when we started working in factories in the late 1800s, and a few years later we had to chase our downtown bus connections to work our secretary jobs in the city.

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"A Letter to Women"

As a woman, one of your gifts is your profound intuition. You sense, see, and feel things beyond the physical. You know things way in advance. People may call you crazy, unreasonable, even unrealistic, but know that nothing revolutionary was created by dreaming small and buying into limitations.

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"Modest is Not Hottest"

That a phrase rhymes does not make it a truism — I can “snooze” and not “lose,” “fake it” and never “make it” — and this is especially true of the overwhelmingly whack aggregation of words that comprise our current topic, words I double-damn as (a) not really rhyming unless you mispronounce “hottest” and (b) not being true.

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