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Very good questions, Nicole, and “Chained to the kitchen sink” is a great article. It seems that “progressive” = Marxist/feminist! But whatever the “intelligentsia” in our society are saying, it looks like many are voting with their feet anyway.
It would be interesting to compare the statistics that Adele Horin cites, with the situation in the USA where conservative Christianity is a lot more influential than here. I suspect the statistics wouldn’t be very different.
Anyway, for what it’s worth, my wife and I have survived all our married life on one income, for most of the time a rather low missionary income, yet I was able to retire early from the paid work force so we could finish our Bible translation project (which at the time we weren’t paid for), and yet we now own our own home outright. Also I usually do the cooking and my wife does the gardening. The Lord’s looked after us, and we don’t mind saying so to anyone who’ll listen
Cheers, Michael.
Well said, Nicole.
Similar thoughts occurred to me recently on International Women’s Day, when the usual suspects piped up to say how disgraceful it was that after all these years of feminist achievement and progress, we still didn’t have nearly enough female CEOs and company directors.
But wasn’t it only the week before that being a CEO or company director was just about immoral by definition? Them with their obscene pay, and their bonuses, and their Tony Jacklin golf clubs. Didn’t they cause the GFC (or at least stand by and watch it happen)?
But it’s apparently even more immoral that not enough of these greedy, capitalist, corporate, fat-cat polluters are women.
I’d better stop.
TP
Tony, you must have missed Eva Cox’s comments (and those of quite a few others) who disagreed with the boardroom emphasis. Try her SMH article here:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/macho-economics-still-rules-the-agenda-20110307-1bl4e.html, particularly this sentence:
“We wanted to change the undervaluing of those aspects of life seen as women’s issues and the overvaluing of those which were associated with masculinity.”
Now I think we Christians are quite good at this. We don’t want men or women to value themselves on their earnings, and we honour the care of small or sick family members. That’s not the case in the wider community—but it never really was. The danger for Christians, I think, is in an *unexamined* retreat to the attitudes and behaviours of earlier generations.
Hi Ellen
Yes, I did miss those comments, which is a shame because it is not often I would have the opportunity to agree with Eva Cox.
Well, almost agree. Of all the ‘feminised social goods and relationships’ that Eva Cox and her generation fought for, motherhood certainly wasn’t one of them!
As for retreating to the values of earlier generations, if we did examine them and found some of them superior (either on the grounds of wisdom or biblical principle) then embracing them would not be a retreat but progress, wouldn’t it? Which might be Nicole’s point.
@ Tony.
I think that any suggested immorality of CEOs stemmed from the fact that they recklessly and unethically lost huge amounts of investors’ money and weren’t held in any way accountable.
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