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Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 9/9)

By Anna Howard | Published: February 20, 2009
The culture’s message represents such a pulling on girls toward all things outward and not things inward that if we as the church are going to help girls understand themselves as spiritual, we need to help them point inward. We must resist the urge to harp on the external without connecting it to the [...]
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Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 8/9)

By Anna Howard | Published: February 18, 2009
I recently had coffee with a couple of high-school girls, sisters, one a senior and one a sophomore. I asked them about their transition into middle school from grade school, specifically, if that had affected their relationships with boys at all. The sophomore said “Yeah, like, you couldn’t just be friends and hang [...]
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Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 7/9)

By Anna Howard | Published: February 16, 2009
I have two friends who happen to have won the “body lottery” if you will, at least by today’s standards. They are tall, blond, blue eyed, slender and toned-looking, straighter as opposed to curvier, and both of them are awesome women. Both of them have related how other girls and women have often [...]
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