Quote of the Day

So for all of its complexity and incongruity, its mysteries and its dark stories, the Bible consistently presents us with a realistic and affirming view of female beauty.  The writers of ancient Scripture seemed to acknowledge what all women instinctively know -- that our bodies change as we get older, as we bear children, when we get sick, as as we experience joy, pain, life, death, victory, heartache, and time.  And frankly, the suggestion that men are too weak to handle these realities is as emasculating as it is unbiblical.

-- Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, p. 105