“It seems those most likely to miss God’s work in the world are those most convinced they know exactly what to look for, the ones who expect God to play by the rules.” ~ Rachel Held Evans from Searching for Sundays: loving, leaving, and finding the church
Do you ever question your faith?
Wonder why you believe what you do?
Confused whether any of “this” is real?
Have you ever left a church?
The show Submissive Wives debuted on TLC last night. I wasn’t even aware such a show existed until my Facebook news feed became rife with comments about the show and how it infuriated some and nauseated others. Since the show had already begun, I clicked to a later viewing, hit record, and came back to watch it in its entirety. I was interested to see what the rage was about.
The word submission in the writing world is a hopeful and exciting word. It means we’re preparing a piece to be submitted to a blog, publisher, magazine, etc. in hopes of being published. In the context of relationships, however, the word “submissive” often makes people lose their heads. Heated conversations are had. Accusations fly. Marriages are ridiculed. Women are deemed weak. In other words, it brings out the ugly.
Candace Cameron Bure got blasted in recent history for including in her book “Balancing It All”, a snippet about submissiveness in her marriage. There was a cry heard round the worldwide web and I wrote in her defense on BlogHer and to date, it’s one of my most-read posts, in the many, many thousands of reads.
“If you are like most moms (including me!) you probably feel stress and insecurity facing the challenges of being a mom in the twenty-first century.” ~from the book “Be the Best Mom You Can Be: A Practical Guide to Raising Whole Children in a Broken Generation”
Parenting is difficult. And it is, in many respects, more challenging now than perhaps any generation before this.
Christine Organ grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. She is a double-Badger, having earned both her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She currently lives in suburban Chicago with her husband, two sons, two dogs, and a lizard. A pragmatic believer and hopeful optimist, Christine writes about faith, love, and the human condition. She writes at www.christineorgan.com and has appeared on Headline News (a division of CNN). Her work has also appeared on The New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, Patheos, Mamalode, and RELEVANT.
When the opportunity presented itself to read and review Christine Organ’s “Open Boxes: the gifts of living a full and connected life”, I’ll admit I wasn’t yet familiar with Christine’s work. After proper research, I knew I had to be a part of this book in whatever fashion possible; now that I’ve read it, Christine has gained a new fan.