Lindsey over at Enjoy the Journey has brought my attention to a piece on the Opinion page of the New York Times (!) that I think all parents, Christian or not, should read. I'm always startled when I read such observations from one who makes no claim (at least explicitly) to being a Believer, as though some of us have become so calloused and blind, or worse yet, cowardly, as to need to be shaken back to the truth by one outside our own circles. The message is uncomfortable, and those of us who don't have girls in organized schooling are by no means immune or protected from the tendency of our culture toward the base and the sexualized. I don't pretend to have the answers, but I do know that it's something we must not ignore, and each of us needs to think carefully, prayerfully, about the standards that honor God...standards for dress, for behavior, for companions. Does He make a difference in how we absorb the culture? The world is watching...

Thanks for highlighting this, Lindsey.