Welcome to Girl Matters!

Welcome to the launch of Girl Matters!  We’re so excited that you’re checking us out.  There is so much in store when it comes to discussing girl matters and biblical womanhood.  With all the clamoring and contending messages out there on what it means to be a woman in our time and generation, creating an insightful forum where dialogue can take place has been a growing passion for us.  However, before jumping forward, I’d like to introduce our site and how we got started in the first place.

In the past few years, as I have been navigating through the jungle of ideas on what it means to be a Christian and a woman today, my hunger for solid thought and dialogue on the topic has grown.  Furthermore, I have also found that there are many women out there who are inquisitive and concerned enough to join in on the conversation.  As an illustration of this, over the summer last year, I began studying passages in Scripture related to the woman’s function in the local church.  Inevitably, I got stuck on one passage and realized that I needed to know what others thought about it.  I posed the question to Christina and we began an email dialogue over the topic.

Though there wasn’t a satisfying conclusion to the question, the act of conversing and connecting with someone else who was wrestling through the same issues was a huge relief for me.  Not only did I realize that there is so much to gain when you study the Word together with someone else, but I also realized that there are women out there who have many rich insights to offer.  After some excited brainstorming on how to bring these elements together, Christina and I agreed that we should start a blog just for the women of our church.  We invited two others with the same interest and passion for communicating through writing and started making plans for this blog.  Check out each of our profiles to see how incredibly different we each are and what led us to become contributers of the blog.

So what can you look forward to in the upcoming months?  Well, we are committed to voicing ideas, thoughts, experiences and expressions on becoming women of God.  We hope to do this by connecting, creating, commenting and critiquing.

More specifically:
Connecting - We want to share real life experiences as a means of genuinely connecting with our readers.

Creating - Sometimes the most complex thoughts are best expressed through artistic expression.  We hope to be able to harness the craft of writing to better communicate truth.

Commenting:  As students of scripture, we are committed to tying everything back to the Word and in doing so providing a biblical worldview.

Critiquing:  In order to stay informed and form accurate perspectives on culture, we will at times critique trends, media, pop culture and other aspects of our culture.

Thanks again for checking our blog out.  Continue to visit us in the future.  It is our prayer that you will be blessed by all that is voiced on this site.