We received the following thoughtful response to Darrow’s post, A Personal Story About Why Words Matter, from our friend, Ryan Davis. Because it was worthy of more than a simple, brief reply, we are posting it here, with Darrow’s reply, for the benefit of all our readers. As a book
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When Lydia Sigourney pointed out, in 1837, that Christianity has brought dignity to the woman, while other faith systems have often left women degraded, she was ahead of her time. Gratitude for the religion of Jesus Christ should inspire an unwavering zeal. Beside the high hope of salvation, which we
Women and men alike owe much to an obscure maternal feminist who died 150 years ago. In language that sounds almost quaint, E.B. Huntington wrote the following tribute to a woman named Lydia Sigourney, on the occasion of her death. Were any intelligent American citizen now asked to name the
In his last days in office Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta pushed two new social policies into the heart of the US military establishment. On Jan 23, 2013 he lifted the ban on women serving in combat. On Feb 11, 2013 he expanded military benefits to gay and lesbian couples. This is the fruit
In my experience, there is one truth that almost always brings women to tears: the transcendent nature of the maternal heart. When they hear what the Bible says about a woman’s nurturing instinct, that God’s maternal heart is the source of their own mothering nature, they often break down. The
As part of the DNA teaching on worldview, I share my “life message,” The Transforming Story. We talk about the need to tell the whole of the Biblical narrative and that our lives need to be understood and lived out within the framework of this story. On a recent trip
In a dark dungeon I stood with a broken heart on centuries-old dry excrement. I was visiting the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, a transshipping point for African captives in the British Atlantic slave trade. In each dungeon, hundreds of slaves were so tightly packed that these desperate humans could
How is poverty related to male “superiority”? Why are 100 million women missing? How are today’s feminists exactly the opposite of the first feminists? These and other questions are addressed in Darrow Miller’s 45-minute presentation entitled, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rules the World. At a conference at Wilberforce Academy Darrow gave this
Darrow Miller was one of the keynote speakers at the recent “Worldview for World Healing” conference hosted by Wilberforce Academy. Darrow’s presentation, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Rules the World, was a 45-minute summary of his book, Nurturing the Nations: Proclaiming the Dignity of Women in Building Healthy Cultures. Go here
“Houston, we have a problem.” This was the brusque announcement from astronaut Jack Swigert following a life threatening explosion onboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft. By God’s grace, the skill of the astronauts, and the teamwork of NASA mission control in Houston, Apollo 13 returned safely to earth without loss of
