World Magazine’s September 15 issue has a story about one young woman’s efforts to bring back modesty. Wendy Shalit has written Return To Modesty in 1999 and more recently Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad To Be Good (Random House).
Is this a good thing? Do we have a problem with immodesty in society? Certainly many people would agree we do. But, do we have a lack of modesty among Christians? Have you looked around at what many females, young and older, are wearing to church? Often shocking!
Check out www.worldmag.com to see the article.
September 10, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Rhetorical yes. We do have a problem with immodesty today. I am sure most people are aware of it, even if they do not see a problem.
Of course I see a great need to address this in the pulpits and the SS classes across the church landscape. It is not as if the bible has nothing to say about it.
We can all be thankful for mentoring programs like Apples of Gold where the older women are teaching the younger women (wow! doing what the bible calls women to do.)about such things.
September 11, 2007 at 8:04 pm
I agree, Dad. There is a huge problem with modesty. While I am glad that at least some fashion trends today are returning to a more modest look, there is still a huge problem inside the church and outside the church with women (mostly) dressing entirely inappropriately. That’s all I have to say really…good post.