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June 19, 2018
Set-apart Femininity Review #5: Hollywood and the Sacred-Secular Divide
Welcome back, literary-minded people, to the next installment of the Set-Apart Femininity book review series. Today we’re looking at the chapter Sacred Decorum, p. 67-106.
Ludy’s writing continues to be confusing, with mixed and sometimes contradictory messages coming within a few pages of one another. And what’s perhaps most tricky about her teachings is that on most things, she’s not totally wrong. Within her far-out opinions are many pieces of actual good perspective and advice. This half-...
June 16, 2018
3 Tips for Sticking with your Writing
For years, I was one of those writers.
You know what I’m talking about.
You get a great story idea. You become enthralled. You plan, plan, plan, on a wave of supernatural inspiration. Everything feels possible! Then you sit down to start writing…only to abandon the manuscript a few chapters in.
Somewhere between character sketching and making it to chapter five, things kind of run out of steam. The excitement is gone. Your energy is gone. This brilliant story idea has become an odious chore....
June 12, 2018
Set-apart Femininity Review #4: Boys and blanket statements
Welcome back, mes amis, to book club day.
Set-Apart Femininity, is…interesting. I mean, you probably already gathered I thought that here. And here. And here. But today we’re beginning our first of three (yes, three) chapters dedicated to male/female romantic relationships, and it’s in these chapters that things get ironic.
On the one hand, this book proclaims a message that a Christian girl’s focus should not be on boys and relationships, and that moving away from a focus on boys to a focus...
June 8, 2018
Ode to a spreading garden
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I learned of grace from a spreading garden
From faces of violet and blue
Which tumbled over boulders placed in a slicing line,
And told of a place for flowers, which was not beyond their reach
And tried, I suppose, to keep the life in and the trodden path out
But the flowers did not notice, nor care it seemed
They grew so proud, so free, so unaware
Of where they were supposed to be
I learned of grace from a spreading garden
From the rocky, trodden ground
That even the most novice of plant...
June 5, 2018
Set-apart femininity review #3: Proverbs 31 and sin nature
Hello friends!
Well, this has been a week. Year #2 of my job at the school has concluded, my husband returned from his whirlwind trip to Europe, and now we get to talk about juicy topics like sin nature and the Proverbs 31 woman. Uff da!
We’re checking out p. 31-57 of Leslie Ludy’s Set-apart Femininity. This chapter is dubbed “Sacred Design: Discovering femininity’s blueprint for beauty.” Oddly enough, this chapter has made me think of European culture and the differences between America and...
May 29, 2018
Set-Apart Femininity Review #2: The beauty problem
Greetings, dear followers,
Today we are back for our book study and are looking at Set-Apart Femininity’s first chapter: “Sacred Intent.” Honestly, I struggled with knowing where to begin, as these 22 pages work like an overture for later chapters. As such, it felt a little hodge-podgey, and this post will probably feel hodge-podgey, too. In this chapter, we get the basic thesis for the book, as well as the definition of “set-apart femininity,” a new path women can take for guaranteed beauty....
Set-Apart Femininity Review #2: Sacred Intent
Greetings, dear followers,
Today we are back for our book study and are looking at Set-Apart Femininity’s first chapter: “Sacred Intent.” Honestly, I struggled with knowing where to begin, as these 22 pages work like an overture for later chapters. As such, it felt a little hodge-podgey, and this post will probably feel hodge-podgey, too. In this chapter, we get the basic thesis for the book, as well as the definition of “set-apart femininity,” a new path women can take for guaranteed beauty....
Set-Apart Femininity Review: Sacred Intent
Greetings, dear followers,
Today we are back for our book study and are looking at Set-Apart Femininity’s first chapter: “Sacred Intent.” Honestly, I struggled with knowing where to begin, as these 22 pages work like an overture for later chapters. As such, it felt a little hodge-podgey, and this post will probably feel hodge-podgey, too. In this chapter, we get the basic thesis for the book, as well as the definition of “set-apart femininity,” a new path women can take for guaranteed beauty....
May 22, 2018
Set-Apart Femininity Review #1: Let’s talk communication
Welcome back to Tuesday, and to the first week of our Set-Apart Femininity review series. I’d like to think of this as sort of a long-distance book club. If you have the book and want to follow along that would be awesome; at the end of each entry I’ll let you know what section we’re covering next week. And if you don’t have the book, I’d still love to hear your thoughts in the comments so we can have a discussion on these things and learn from each other.
Sound good? Let’s get started with t...
May 15, 2018
Introducing new book review series!
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When I told my husband that I’d ordered a copy of Leslie Ludy’s Set Apart Femininity, he looked at me like I was speaking French. Or like I said I’d taken to eating peanut butter. That would be even stranger.
Although he was the one to introduce me to the Ludys back in our dating days, it’d been a long time since we’d read any of their material. Excluding, perhaps, that one night we spent annotating a particularly alarming article from Leslie Ludy’s website that ended with us pretty much nod...
