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Oct 12, 2024 | 
wordonfire.org | Kerri Christopher
“It is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious,” observed Dorothy Sayers. In 1938, the medieval scholar, detective novelist, and translator of Dante had been invited to speak to a women’s society about the feminist movement.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
wordonfire.org | Kerri Christopher
Twenty years later, Mean Girls is back. The hit 2004 film has been rewritten as a musical comedy for a new generation, showing that popularity contests, cliques, fashion, gossip and revenge are still as popular amongst teenage girls as they were twenty years ago. A friend and former women’s fashion magazine editor told me about her recent encounter with high school girls.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
radiantmagazine.com | Kerri Christopher
Would you rather get up in the middle of the night for a crying baby or for the monastic bells? This question was posed to me in high school as a (supposedly) helpful way of thinking about what vocation, or state in life, I might be called to. The idea was that both marriage/motherhood and religious life require sacrifice, but you’d probably rather do one than the other, and that preference is probably a sign of where you’re called.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
thehollow.substack.com | Dixie Dillon Lane |Ivana Greco |Leila Marie Lawler |Kerri Christopher
Some days you have to make yourself laugh, or you’ll start to cry. Some days you just let it go and you do both. Yesterday was such a day, filled with so many good school things that they swelled up so big that they crowded any other good things out. At the end of the day I could only pray, “Lord, come find me where I am lost.”That is to say: it was the first day of the homeschool year. Our eighth homeschool year, this time encompassing four kids in grades K-9.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
thehollow.substack.com | Dixie Dillon Lane |Meredith Hinds |Kerri Christopher
Yesterday I was over at a friend’s house for a wonderful event, a capstone of the academic year: a live production of a dramatized version of Rumpelstiltskin, written, staged, and performed by our daughters’ little drama club. They’ve been working hard on the play all year and it was such a delight to see the final performance.
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May 9, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Kerri Christopher |Dixie Dillon Lane |Katie Marquette |Taryn Oesch DeLong
Welcome to all new readers! This is the sixth interview in a series where we celebrate the intentional choice to live as whole persons and not just one-dimensional job titles. The overwhelmingly positive response to my essay, Leaning (In and) Out, (Not) Having it All, suggested to me that there are a lot of women (and men) who are keen to set aside the societal pressure to hustle hard and put all their energies and decades of life exclusively into one single career box.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Kerri Christopher
Our culture is full of angry women—angry at misogynist men, angry that careerism hasn’t brought the fulfillment it promised, angry that they might get pregnant, angry when they don’t, angry at toxic masculinity, angry at the mental load, angry about a whole host of grievances. In a reaction, perhaps, against therapy culture, many men—and women—are telling these angry ladies to get over it (a suggestion that, in the history of humanity, has never proved effective).
Why are women so angry?
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Richard Cassleman |Matthew Schmitz |Kerri Christopher |Liel Leibovitz
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Kerri Christopher
Our culture is full of angry women—angry at misogynist men, angry that careerism hasn’t brought the fulfillment it promised, angry that they might get pregnant, angry when they don’t, angry at toxic masculinity, angry at the mental load, angry about a whole host of grievances. In a reaction, perhaps, against therapy culture, many men—and women—are telling these angry ladies to get over it (a suggestion that, in the history of humanity, has never proved effective).
Why are women so angry?
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
thepublicdiscourse.com | Kerri Christopher
Recently, I was speaking with my husband when I suddenly grabbed a pen and jotted something down on a sticky note. “What are you thinking?” he asked, presuming that it had to do with our deep and meaningful conversation. “I just remembered that I need to add brussels sprout salad to the Thanksgiving menu,” I replied. He laughed. After seven years of marriage, he’s grown wise to the ways of the female mind.
