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Honest Abe, Geico, and How You Can Know if You’re Ready for Marriage

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:February 4, 2014
Post category:Christian Lifestyle Relationships
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A couple of years ago my husband and I saw a commercial for Geico brand auto insurance which dramatizes a supposed conversation between Abraham Lincoln and his wife. A short, rotund Mary Todd Lincoln primps in front of a mirror, straightens and examines her high-neck, lace-cuffed, derriere-spreading black and white taffeta dress from different angles, and then asks that dreaded question:

“Honey, does this dress make my backside look big?” (more…)

On Wives and Handcuffs: How to break out of relationship jail

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:January 17, 2014
Post category:Christian Lifestyle Relationships
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Did you know that the Spanish word for “wives,” esposas, is the same as the Spanish word for “handcuffs”? (more…)

Bread and Butter: The new premarital sex

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:January 9, 2014
Post category:Christian Personal Development Cross-cultural Living Relationships
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Is it me, or does it seem that lately any consumption of food that isn’t organic, raw, vegan, or gluten and GMO-free has usurped the position of premarital sex as the prime offender in the Christian church? (more…)

10 Confessions from 2013: Why not get some things off your chest?

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:January 4, 2014
Post category:Christian Lifestyle
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In the spirit of coming clean and starting the new year off with a blank slate, here are 10 confessions of mine from 2013: (more…)

Burning the Pilato: What a Peruvian tradition can show you about your toughest obstacles

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:January 2, 2014
Post category:Christian Lifestyle Cross-cultural Living Peruvian Amazon Jungle
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An annual tradition in the Peruvian Amazon is the burning of “pilatos”– homemade, life-size dolls that resemble the makers of the pilatos, or that resemble public figures. (more…)

Doing What You Hate, and Loving It in the End: What happens when you put on your big-girl Spanks

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:December 28, 2013
Post category:Christian Lifestyle
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Doing what completely repulses you can bring new understanding to the monumental work of Christ. See how in my latest article, Taking the Cup, in Catapult Magazine.

How to Keep Your Faith From Making Your “But” Look Big: 3 Keys to overcoming mediocrity

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:December 27, 2013
Post category:Relationships
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But I could lose everything if I tried something like that! But they would never like me if they knew my whole story. (more…)

If I Were Satan: How I would trip up Christians at their own game

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:December 20, 2013
Post category:Christian Lifestyle
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If I were Satan and I wanted to make Christians act more like me than like Christ, here’s what I would do: (more…)

Thank God I’m Not 25 Anymore! 5 reasons to celebrate coming of age

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:December 18, 2013
Post category:Christian Lifestyle
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In honor of my 52nd year, here’s why coming of age is worth celebrating: (more…)

Does Anyone Hear You?

Post author:Sherry Boykin
Post published:December 12, 2013
Post category:Christian Lifestyle Relationships
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We have an ongoing tradition in our home of having our 8-year-old daughter “pay” for unexpected, unbelievably sweet, thoughtful, adorable things she does that so overwhelm her mom that it is nearly impossible to contain the emotion. (more…)

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