Today's Christian Woman articles from January 2001

Today's Christian Woman archives from January 2001

Time for a Change!(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... EVERY NEW YEAR'S DAY, I follow this little routine: I take out my new, carefully selected datebook, and on its blank pages carry over the birthdays and anniversaries from last year's calendar. I look forward to my ritual of crossing over...

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January 1, 2001... Keen on Bonnie Talk about timing. Your cover story on Bonnie Keen's divorce and depression ("Survivor's Story," November/December 2000) couldn't have arrived at a more poignant time. A week ago, 1 discovered my husband of 10 years is...

Medical Research Made Easy.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Got a health question? Research your answer with one of the links to countless specialty sites at the National Women's Health Information Center--www.4woman.gov--sponsored by the Office of Women's Health, a division of the U.S. Department of...

SIZE UP Your Supper.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... If losing weight's one of your New Year's resolutions--again!--maybe it's time to check your portion sizes. In this day of super-sized meals and megamuffins, who can really tell what a portion is anymore? Before you drag a food scale to your...

FlipDog.com.(job search)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Looking for a new job? FlipDog.com is definitely the first place to go for a vast selection of opportunities. This site lets you search available jobs by location and/or position desired. Many of the listings link you directly to company...

faith @ work.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... I work with a woman who's always in a terrible mood and is constantly grumbling about work, weather, and coworkers. She's not too popular around the office! But when she fell a work one day, doing severe damage to her back, everyone rushed to...

HUG YOUR HUBBY!(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Or your friends, or your siblings. Physical contact relieves stress and depression, and boosts your alertness. What a great way to beat the winter blues!

Divine Valentines.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... This Valentine's Day, teach your kids a valuable lesson about loving their neighbors. Together, determine who your neighbors are--your letter carrier, the elderly woman next door, your children's teacher--and set aside an afternoon to make...

Internet Attraction.(Questions and Answers)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Dear Dr. Langberg, I've struck up a blossoming friendship with a man I've been e-mailing. My online buddy seems to understand me better than my husband does, and at times I'm more open with him than with my spouse. I'd never act on this...

5 Resolutions to Keep.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... For your kids' sake--and yours This year I promise to do... I really want to... Oh my, maybe I won't make any resolutions this year after all--I never keep them anyway. It's just too hard! Have you ever felt like this? I have--many...

HEADLINE NEWS.(news anchor Cynthia Williams)(Interview)
January 1, 2001... WEEKEND NEWS ANCHOR CYNTHIA WILLIAMS GIVES THE SCOOP ON THE STORIES THAT HAVE CHANGED HER LIFE THERE'S A FAST-BREAKING STORY AFOOT: A high-school athletics coach has been the target of student allegations of sexual misconduct. And...

How Do You Relate to God?(spiritual temperaments)
January 1, 2001... Figuring out how you're wired can help you grow spiritually. NOT LONG AGO, I broke my wrist. It was a serious break, requiring surgery. Because I needed so much help, my wife, Lisa, and I had to do almost everything together. We shopped...

Adventures in Romance.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... My attempts to spice up my marriage kept going awry. A WHILE AGO, I attended a seminar for women on how to renew the romance in a marriage. A Christian psychologist reminded us how men are visually stimulated. Using the Scripture...

When a Friend Goes Astray.
January 1, 2001... I learned the difference between confronting and condemning--the hard way. bAD NEWS TRAVELS fast. In one day I'd heard from three different sources that my friend Joan was leaving her husband. She verified the news the next afternoon...

Confessions of a Compulsive Eater.
January 1, 2001... When the urge for foods become overwhelming "WHY CAN'T I STOP EATING?" Thousands of U.S. women ask themselves this question every day as they desperately struggle to gain control over food and lose weight. Excessive eating is the...

5 minutes with michael card.(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 1, 2001... SONGWRITER, recording artist, and author Michael Card has an impressive resume: He's recorded 21 albums, written 12 books, won 5 Dove Awards, and penned numerous #1 songs, including "El Shaddai." His latest ventures are the final CD in a...

How to Do (Almost!) Everything.(time management)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Try these six time-stretching strategies THE PERFECTLY ORGANIZED day had just begun. The night before, I'd made school lunches, signed urgent notes, and had the kids stack their backpacks by the door. I'd risen early enough to transform...

We Had to Get Married.(how a young couple grew up in marriage)
January 1, 2001... Would our relationship survive its rocky beginning? THE KITCHEN LINOLEUM was covered with rose petals and chicken noodle soup. Among that mess sat our marriage certificate, angrily shredded into little pieces. I can't remember what...

Help! My Kid Wants Blue Hair!(parents should not battle with teens over mere appearance)
January 1, 2001... Tips on handling this and other tricky parenting dilemmas WHEN MY DAUGHTER LAURA walks into church--or anywhere, for that matter--heads definitely turn. At 16, she's into wearing black: black fingernail polish, long black skirts, clunky...

A Nighty-Night at the Opera.(woman's date falls asleep at the opera)
January 1, 2001... Was it curtains for our date? IT WAS A Thursday night, a fact I remember simply because it was one week and one day before our wedding. I may not recall when I got my roots touched up--was it last Tuesday or last October?--but I can say...

Extravagant Grace.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... MAMMA'S boiling mad," my three-year-old grandson, Ian, told me when I met him, his one-year-old brother, Alec, and their mother, Beth, at the park recently. When Ian told me the reason--he'd pushed Alec into the mud--I understood why my...

The Mercy Project.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Mercy Project by various artists (Word). I grew up a "goody two shoes," so I was surprised at how much I could relate to the songs on The Mercy Project, an album created for Mercy Ministries of America, a nonprofit organization that...

Raising Cain ... and His Sisters.(Review)
January 1, 2001... After several surgeries and mandatory bed rest, I was ready for a good laugh. And I got it when I read Raising Cain... and His Sisters by Suzy Pizzuti (WaterBrook). From the moment widow Olivia orders her "mountain of loneliness" to move,...

books.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Really Bad Girls of the Bible by Liz Curtis Higgs ($13, WaterBrook Press). Speaker, best-selling author, and TCW columnist Liz Curtis Higgs offers life lessons from eight more less-than-perfect women. In this sequel to her book Bad Girls of...

music.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Love Has a Name by Kathy Troccoli (Reunion). Eighteen-year Christian music veteran Kathy Troccoli fills her 12th album with the joy and pain that have accompanied her varied life experiences--and the pleasing pop music that's made her so...

video.(Review)
January 1, 2001... 3-2-1 Penguins! (Big idea). From the creators of Veggie Tales comes a brand new animated series for children--and children at heart! Trouble on Planet Wait-Your-Turn, the first installment in the 3-2-1 Penguins! series, finds Jason and...

MY PASSION.(billiards player LoreeJon Jones)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... "Pool is my game, but it's also my mission," says professional billiards player LoreeJon Jones. Her passion for pool started when she was in grade school. She'd go home every day for lunch--and a game of pool with her mom! Since then,...