Candice Watters: "Get Married: What women can do to help it happen"
Captain Sensible writes: This book arrived this morning - miraculously quickly as it happens! Usually books like this take about three weeks to arrive on this side of the Atlantic. This took about three days!
Anyway, I am sure it will be a good read, and having read the first few pages, I am encouraged, and I will no doubt be posting on it again.
However, it got off to a very, very bad start.
In the acknowledgements, Watters thanks (amongst others, and admittedly in last place), the queen of the damaging books on Christian singleness, Carolyn McCulley.
Yes, the same Carolyn McCulley whose (publicly unrepentant) views have done so much harm to the Body of Christ, and caused endless Christian women to agonise over whether or not they have the "gift of singleness", and if by desiring marriage they are "making an idol" out of it, and encouraged them to spiritually beat themselves up with an on-going struggle to "be content" with a state that God Himself said was "not good".
The same Carolyn McCulley that has now embarked on a new campaign against "feminism", even though McCulley is in fact probably the most extreme feminist on earth! Not many women, even the most apparently driven "career woman" in the secular world, would say that they don't need a man!
Given that the early signs of the Watters book are encouraging, and appear to completely oppose everything that McCulley has ever stood for, I wonder what exactly she has to thank McCulley about? For the harm that she has done, so that Watters is able to fulfil a lifetime ambition to write a book in an attempt to put it right? No, I believe Watters to be more sincere than that, and I await with interest to see if McCulley is quoted at all.
It appears to boil down to a personal friendship and maybe Watters didn't want McCulley to feel bad.
Such misguided compassion. I fear that such a thank you in the acknowledgements will only confuse single Christian women further. Maybe they have read McCulley's book, and they then read Watters' book, which proposes a completely different standpoint, but also pays tribute to McCulley, thereby apparently simultaneously endorsing her contradictory views, all in the same breath?
Anyone remember the American comedy series Soap?
"Confused? You will be!"
Anyway, I am sure it will be a good read, and having read the first few pages, I am encouraged, and I will no doubt be posting on it again.
However, it got off to a very, very bad start.
In the acknowledgements, Watters thanks (amongst others, and admittedly in last place), the queen of the damaging books on Christian singleness, Carolyn McCulley.
Yes, the same Carolyn McCulley whose (publicly unrepentant) views have done so much harm to the Body of Christ, and caused endless Christian women to agonise over whether or not they have the "gift of singleness", and if by desiring marriage they are "making an idol" out of it, and encouraged them to spiritually beat themselves up with an on-going struggle to "be content" with a state that God Himself said was "not good".
The same Carolyn McCulley that has now embarked on a new campaign against "feminism", even though McCulley is in fact probably the most extreme feminist on earth! Not many women, even the most apparently driven "career woman" in the secular world, would say that they don't need a man!
Given that the early signs of the Watters book are encouraging, and appear to completely oppose everything that McCulley has ever stood for, I wonder what exactly she has to thank McCulley about? For the harm that she has done, so that Watters is able to fulfil a lifetime ambition to write a book in an attempt to put it right? No, I believe Watters to be more sincere than that, and I await with interest to see if McCulley is quoted at all.
It appears to boil down to a personal friendship and maybe Watters didn't want McCulley to feel bad.
Such misguided compassion. I fear that such a thank you in the acknowledgements will only confuse single Christian women further. Maybe they have read McCulley's book, and they then read Watters' book, which proposes a completely different standpoint, but also pays tribute to McCulley, thereby apparently simultaneously endorsing her contradictory views, all in the same breath?
Anyone remember the American comedy series Soap?
"Confused? You will be!"
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