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SD's avatar

Both this and your article on older women were very good; thank you for writing them. But I have a follow-on question: Given the problems you mentioned in this article, and the cultural mindset that has shifted women away from marriage and homemaking, and with the understanding that these problems are not going to be solved in a generation, that means there will be more unmarried women today than in past eras (and also, of course, some women are unmarried not because they were hardcore feminists, but because there simply weren’t good men available in their circles, just as there are unmarried men due to lack of good women). So what would your counsel be to the aging, single women? They’re not young anymore, likely not going to marry, and even if they did marry, they are past childbearing age. What is their place in the Body? How should they relate to the young women, when they don’t have experiential wisdom to pass on regarding loving one’s husband and children?

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Don Fields's avatar

This is one of the best articles I've read on this topic and one of your best articles in a long time. Practical, pastoral, wise, succinct, in-depth, and most importantly timely. This is exactly what the church needs right now. I'll be pulling many quotes for my own preaching and teaching.

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