Today Jeff and I celebrate our 24th anniversary! It's great timing for a Marriage Monday post, especially since I'm wrapping up a month of listening to the Next Gen share their thoughts on a range of topics from womanhood to family to relationships and mentoring. I've loved hearing their hearts and ...
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Womanhood, according to the next gen
It's getting harder to be a woman. Who should the next gen of women follow? Young women look for heroes in the crowd of well knowns like Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton, Paula Dean, and Claire Dunphy. It's not easy when famous women like Lady Gaga claim that “Some women choose to follow men, and ...
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The next gen & the Battle to be feminine
I really want to know what the Next Gen thinks about femininity (say that fast 5 times). It's been a little over 50 years since Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique changed the conversation about being feminine. A lot has changed and is changing. How is the next gen of women thinking? In general, do ...
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Next gen family thoughts
Today, "family" doesn't mean what it did when I was a teen or twentysomething. Like it or not, no matter how you vote, worship, or date, family life in Western cultures is changing. More than 40% of babies in my country are born to unmarried women, and fewer women than ever get married at all. ...
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A conversation about next gen relationships
Mondays are usually Marriage Mondays here on Come Have a Peace, but today we're talking about how different it is for the next gen to find true love. I asked one of my next gen writers to share what we should know about relationships for young adults today. They're falling in love in a a world of ...
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