updates

My last post talked about taking inventory of my past in order to be able to end well.  One thing that I wasn’t expecting and in retrospect consider to be crucial to this time of reflection and questioning, is the gift of biblical community.  This past year, I’ve had the privilege of leading a wonderful LIFE Group called Supernova.  This was one of those special groups which somehow from day one seemed to click together very well.  We’ve been able to grow together as a group this past year as we learn how to be open with each other, how to honor, love and respect each other, how to fight, how to grow and most of all how to be more like Christ to each other and those around us.  I personally, have been tremendously blessed by this particular group and they have given me the wonderful gift of being a part of their lives.  Supernova - thank you for inviting me to be a part of your lives this year and thank you for being part of the intricate plot line that is being written into my life!

Supernova Video

Dear Readers of Girl Matters,

It has been a little over a year since we launched the Girl Matters website.  All of us who write for the blog have not only had a great time utilizing this wonderful medium to communicate our many thoughts (womanly or not), but we have also really enjoyed hearing feedback from our readers on some of the entries we had written over the year.  I am still impressed by how many men have come to enjoy our site!  I never imagined that the ramblings and musings of grown women could be a useful resource for anyone other than women, but I have been proven wrong.  So thanks very much to all of our readers -  we appreciate each of your clicks and web visits.  If we have in anyway tickled your imagination, pricked your consciences or just made you laugh out loud, we know that we are doing something right.  That being said, I’d like to orient you to some new updates to Girl Matters version 2.0:

New Look & Feel - As you can see we’ve changed up the site’s design.  We wanted something a little cleaner and easier to read.  We hope you like it.

New Guest Writers - We are including new writers in our writing circle:  Nickey Jun, Susan Kim and Grace Lee.  We hope you will enjoy hearing some new voices as they grace us with their thoughts and opinions.

New Avenues of Interaction - We want to open up dialogue through this site rather than just keeping it one-sided.  That’s why we’d like to invite you to write letters to the editor.  At the end of every month, we will post the letters you sent us that we think are particularly insightful or worth mentioning, along with responses from our writers if it is warranted.

New Subscriptions - You can now subscribe to us!  Check out the subscribe to us section on the right hand side of the page.

Well that’s it for now!  Please continue to visit Girl Matters and when you feel so inclined, send us a letter with your thoughts.  We hope you’ll be blessed as we continue to voice truth on biblical womanhood.

Sincerely,

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.