“Dalit women’s bodies are being used to assert caste supremacy and keep women ‘in their place’,” Jacqui Hunt, Eurasia Director of women’s rights group, Equality Now. According to Equality Now, there is such a thing as intersectional discrimination which makes it more difficult for girls across India and around the world to access justice for… Read More Justice for Dalit Women & Girls
My husband, Jon and I are on a two-day tour of North-Western part of Peloponnese. We arrived by car this morning and are staying at the Maison Grecque Hotel in the center of Patra. Patra, which is the third largest city in Greece is the capital city of Achaia. After we check in and leave our… Read More Achaia
Jesse was a journalist who had been covering a much publicized rape case. That night, when he and his wife, Jodie were relaxing on the sofa, he said to her, “Today was a day of pandemonium and persuasions.” She stared at him. “What do you mean?” “Pandemonium erupted in the courtroom when the verdict was announced.”… Read More Justice For All
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. – Ephesians 5:17, NKJV How do you know what God’s will is for your life? The best way to find out is to read His Word. God speaks to us through the Scriptures. My favorite verse is Jeremiah 29:11 which says, “For I know… Read More Knowing God’s Will
The wedding was finally here. It was a bittersweet day for Clive. He was excited to be marrying the woman he loved but sad that his father couldn’t be there. “I’m sorry he can’t be here too,” Aunt Caroline told him, patting him on the heart. “He would have been as excited about this wedding… Read More Clive’s Wedding
A couple of years ago, my world as I knew it was turned upside down. I was 17 and at my cousin, Rose’s wedding. At the reception, a relative who had way too much to drink, put his arm around me and said, “I don’t know about the rest of the family but I’m sure… Read More Matt’s Story
Upon his arrival at Rome, Paul was placed in a gloomy dungeon, there to remain until his course should be finished. Accused of instigating one of the basest and most terrible of crimes against the city and the nation, he was the object of universal execration – Acts of the Apostles, p.490 Day 4 of… Read More Paul’s Example
Then I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun: And look! The tears of the oppressed, But they have no comforter— On the side of their oppressors there is power, But they have no comforter – Ecclesiastes 4:1 It saddens me that in some countries, it is dangerous or even deadly to be a… Read More Oppressed Because She is a Woman
I barely caught the headline about a South African girl who was raped and badly beaten. I searched for the story on the Internet and came across some startling information. Apparently South Africa is known as the “rape capital”. According to Women’s groups, a woman is raped every 26 seconds. The rate of sexual violence… Read More Rape in South Africa
While I was at the hairdresser, I came across People Magazine with Elizabeth Smart’s wedding featured on the cover. Elizabeth met her husband, Matthew Gilmour, a Scotland native while doing mission work in Paris. After one year of courtship, the couple on February 18, 2012 in a private ceremony in the Laie Hawaii Temple. I looked at her radiant face and was… Read More Elizabeth Smart
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