A day or two ago I was leafing through a homeschooling magazine we got in the mail.
Eventually I got to a page on the left with this at the top:
Raising Heavenly Minded Children
Very good!
Then I glanced to the page on the right and saw this:
Is this photo conducive to being heavenly minded?
As a man looking at that, I admit to being momentarily distracted from that whole heavenly minded business.
Yes, I flattened out the scanned image above. I couldn’t in good conscience and Christian purity leave the photo as it was.
Did the magazine editors not think about the contradiction between the article and its accompanying photo?
I don’t know.
Was the woman being heavenly minded by dressing that way and then offering that view to the camera?
Obviously I don’t know that either.
I’m simply appealing to Christian women to consider whether or not the decadent culture in which we live has caused you to inadvertently lower the decency bar too far.
It seems to me that Christian purity requires modesty in dress. Actually, purity also produces such modesty.
So allow me a play on words in closing: