Titus 2 for Life is a mentoring ministry that honors God’s model for positively affecting society. The flow of mentoring is older to younger. “Older” is more than age. It is experience and spiritual maturity. Typically, with age, we become wiser. We’ve made mistakes and hopefully learned from them. It is unfortunate when the “younger” see little need for sage advice.
History is real. It happened. Of course, the best one to tell it — and explain the lessons learned from it — is the person who lived it. I’ve been reading several stories of “older” women who were supposedly “modern” and “unbounded” earlier in their lives who now have a different perspective.
Matt Kaufman notes one. He writes:
“Sometimes family-values talk comes from unexpected sources. Like Raquel Welch. Writing for CNN on the 50th anniversary of the Pill, the 69-year-old actress regrets that it took ‘the caution and discernment out of choosing a sexual partner, which used to be the equivalent of choosing a life partner.’ As a result, she writes, ‘nobody seems able to . . . honor a commitment.’
“Welch regrets her own track record in this area, too. ‘I’m ashamed’ — how many celebs use that word? — ‘to admit that I myself have been married four times. And yet I still feel that it is the cornerstone of civilization, an essential institution that stablilizes society, provides a sanctuary for children and saves us from anarchy.’
“There’s more. Welch deplores ‘promiscuity.’ She says ‘any sane person’ must make a moral ‘judgment’ about certain sexual practices. She even sounds pro-life: When she got pregnant, she realized ‘this process was not about me,’ but about the ‘life’ inside her.
“In a new book, Welch says she’s reconnected with her Christian upbringing and regularly attends church and Bible study.” (Matt Kaufman, Focus on the Family CITIZEN)
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Raquel Regrets
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History is real. It happened. Of course, the best one to tell it — and explain the lessons learned from it — is the person who lived it. I’ve been reading several stories of “older” women who were supposedly “modern” and “unbounded” earlier in their lives who now have a different perspective.
Matt Kaufman notes one. He writes:
“Sometimes family-values talk comes from unexpected sources. Like Raquel Welch. Writing for CNN on the 50th anniversary of the Pill, the 69-year-old actress regrets that it took ‘the caution and discernment out of choosing a sexual partner, which used to be the equivalent of choosing a life partner.’ As a result, she writes, ‘nobody seems able to . . . honor a commitment.’
“Welch regrets her own track record in this area, too. ‘I’m ashamed’ — how many celebs use that word? — ‘to admit that I myself have been married four times. And yet I still feel that it is the cornerstone of civilization, an essential institution that stablilizes society, provides a sanctuary for children and saves us from anarchy.’
“There’s more. Welch deplores ‘promiscuity.’ She says ‘any sane person’ must make a moral ‘judgment’ about certain sexual practices. She even sounds pro-life: When she got pregnant, she realized ‘this process was not about me,’ but about the ‘life’ inside her.
“In a new book, Welch says she’s reconnected with her Christian upbringing and regularly attends church and Bible study.” (Matt Kaufman, Focus on the Family CITIZEN)
What do you have to say about that?
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