get back to this essay on articles in 3-20-2011 HOU CHRON

draft- - In yesterday's HOUSTON CHRONICLE there was a review by - - of a book, I AM J, about a transsexual teen who always thought of him or herself an a male, a boy.
The reviewer, the author and the teen in the book all have the same attitude about the youth's quest to become male- that it is right. I disagree. I want to use the reviewer's review as a basis of an essay coming from MY world view.
Since I don't have that review in front of me right now, that will have to be later.
I remember 15 or 20 years ago, when I heard some Christians speak of "world view" and how the culture was in the process of teaching a misguided world view to the young, I thought that those ones were silly and paranoid to worry that way.
Now, this 20 years later, I think they were right, at least in that; and I was wrong.
I sort of knew what the reviewer's, author's and fictional youth's attitude (one, identical) was before I read the review.
one of the things I really appreciated about Charlie Kaufman's movie, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK was his expose' (in my view) of the enormous effect of being raised and inculcated in a certain world view. It was heart-breaking, and so true.
(I hope 'inculcate' is the right word.)

ANNE ORTLUND ON REVIVE OUR HEARTS

Nancy Leigh DeMoss, God bless her, is persevering in teaching and exhorting and correcting our attitudes about women submitting to husbands and men, in general. The reviveourhearts website is pretty much dedicated to that goal- showing it to be God's way.
This week she interviewed Anne Ortlund, who wrote the book THE DISCIPLINES OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN (I think). The interview was very edifying to me, and I recommend it to all, especially women -both those who are already onboard with the concept that God wills that women submit with grace, trusting Him to work in the heart(s) of the man or men involved, and those who believe that the guidelines of our present American culture which steer differently are the correct course, and "biblical", also.

I refer you to that website, and to Anne Ortlund, (and to 1st PETER 3) with only one other comment: Anne mentioned in response to the general disapproval emanating from the American culture about the general topic of women submitting (the idea being that women are so oppressed by men in cultures where submission is a main principle, by saying that it is in Christian cultures that that women are treated the best. It is cultures that hate Christ that are most oppressive toward women.