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<\/a>\nRaising Heavenly Minded Children<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
Very good!<\/p>\n
Then I glanced to the page on the right and saw this:<\/p>\n
<\/a>\nIs this photo conducive to being heavenly minded?<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
As a man looking at that, I admit to being momentarily distracted from that whole heavenly minded business.<\/p>\n
Yes, I flattened out the scanned image above. I couldn’t in good conscience and Christian purity leave the photo as it was.<\/p>\n
Did the magazine editors not think about the contradiction between the article and its accompanying photo?<\/p>\n
I don’t know.<\/p>\n
Was the woman being heavenly minded by dressing that way and then offering that view to the camera?<\/p>\n
Obviously I don’t know that either.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It seems to me that Christian purity requires<\/em> modesty in dress. Actually, purity also produces<\/em> such modesty.<\/p>\n So allow me a play on words in closing:<\/p>\n 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[416,595],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","tag-morality","tag-purity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-sC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}