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March 19, 2009Elrena Evans
Elrena Evans holds an MFA from The Pennsylvania State University, and is the mother of three children. She writes the column Me and My House for the online magazine Literary Mama, and is co-editor of Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life. She is also the author of a short story collection, This Crowded Night, forthcoming from DreamSeeker Books.
The Sin Behind My Swearing | Cussing out the didgeridoo in front of 5 kids only illuminated a bigger problem. (September 12, 2011)
Why Dogs Should Be Sent to Court | Examining the case of Rosie, a golden retriever who sat beside a 15-year-old raped by her father. (August 12, 2011)
Women Step to Frontline in Mideast Protests | Women's political gains will be a litmus test for fledgling governments in Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain, says Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow. (March 3, 2011)
Apple Takes a Bite Out of Sexting | Is a parental-control device the best way to teach teens that sending sexually explicit texts is a bad idea? (November 2, 2010)
Why There's No Narnia in Our Home | Forget Slaughterhouse Five — there's enough bloodshed in some of the best children's literature to raise my parenting fears. (October 13, 2010)
Why Parenting May Be Your 'Highest' Calling | Researchers re-vamp Maslow's famed hierarchy of needs, replacing "self-actualization" with something more self-giving. (October 4, 2010)
Young, Single Women Outearn Male Counterparts | Does this signal a bridge in the perennial gender pay gap? (September 27, 2010)
Little Girls and Single Ladies | The backlash to the video of 8-year-olds gyrating to Beyonce suggests there's still hope for our culture. (June 3, 2010)
The Secret (Moral) Life of Babies | Does the fact that infants seem to have an innate morality suggest divine intervention? (May 17, 2010)
Turning Child's Play into a Passion Play | How we might consider observing Lent after Easter. (April 9, 2010)
Michelle Obama Tackles Childhood Obesity | The First Lady has been criticized for mentioning her daughters' weight to launch the 'Let's Move!' campaign. (March 2, 2010)
Would I Have Hid Jews During the Holocaust? | The story of Miep Gies, the Christian Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and preserve her diary, makes me wonder. (January 13, 2010)
Disney Croaks with Newest Princess Film | The voodoo and black magic in The Princess and the Frog made for a disturbing movie-viewing experience. (January 12, 2010)
The Trouble with Depicting Jesus | Is a Bible showing the Holy Family in traditional Indian clothes any worse than one depicting them as doe-eyed Caucasians in pastels? (December 15, 2009)
Baby Dies Aboard United Airways Flight: A Response | In our eagerness to assign blame, mothers usually bear the brunt of tragedies like this. (December 9, 2009)
Snakes, Spiders, and the Science of Gender | Why do women tend to be more afraid of creepy crawlies than men? (September 25, 2009)
Breast-feeding Dolls: Cute or Creepy? | I'm pretty ambivalent about Bebe Gloton, the world's first electronically nursing doll. (August 24, 2009)
The Horrors of Orphan | Christian ministry fears the film will stigmatize older adopted children. (August 5, 2009)
Of God and Galaxies | Now that the Cold War is over and we have an economic crisis on our hands, is space exploration still justified? (July 21, 2009)
The Faith of Our Mothers | Surveying the countless women in history who lived audaciously for Christ, we have a tall order to fill. (July 10, 2009)
Liberty University and the Liberty to Dissent | Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Virginia school revokes official recognition for both Democratic and Republican student clubs. (July 1, 2009)
Top Clothing Lines Downsize Plus-Size Offerings | Which clothing lines are belt-tightening during the shrinking economy. (June 19, 2009)
What to Do with Smoking Moms | New research makes me reexamine smoking as a women's issue, and question when it's time to speak up. (May 27, 2009)
Arts Funding Slashed in Economic Crunch | But when children in my home state are going to bed hungry, maybe it's for the best. (May 21, 2009)
Glow-in-the-Dark Bark | Ruppy, the world's first transgenic dog, raises questions about the ramifications of genetic tinkering. (May 5, 2009)
Artist Profile: Anna Kocher | The Philadelphia painter finds 'gritty physicality' in motherhood and in faith. (April 30, 2009)
Is There Such a Thing as Too Many Children? | Questions linger as last of Nadya Suleman's octuplets heads home. (April 21, 2009)
Bible Translated into LOLcat | (April 14, 2009)
When Deadbeat Dads Are Really Trying | (April 1, 2009)
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