As Christian women, the topic of modesty can be a conversation fraught with traps. What does”modesty” even mean? Do we all have to dress according to some standard of not drawing the gaze of the biggest creep in the room? Or be like the most school-marm-y woman in the congregation? Is it a matter of inches on our […]

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{In the first article in this series, we defined the word/idea of “modesty.”} Here, let’s consider: what are the common problems in the church? Dresses are too short Clothes’ tightness and cut can often draw people’s eyes to the wrong places. (i.e.: Slits up the thigh. Mesh fabrics and lace draw attention to what’s underneath clothing.) […]

Sometimes life blindsides us. It could be any number of things. But sometimes in life, we feel like everything has exploded around us, and nothing is as it was before. (For us, some of them have been death of a parent while he was driving to our wedding, miscarriage x3, job loss, unexplained illness, hurting/sick […]

{This is the 3rd of 4 articles in a series about Christian modesty. How can a local Body of Christ, with its own individual “culture” (country, part of the country, religious norms/background, temperature, seasons, etc.), come together in unity about this topic of modesty, when opinions about what is appropriate can be so different? Particularly because– […]