by Debbie Boyce | Apr 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
You may have noticed that there are long periods of time between our blog posts. That is because both Ruth and I are busy and we don’t always have time to write or to edit one another’s posts. We are committed to editing each other’s writing, because we have seen in...
by Debbie Boyce | Mar 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
As many of you know, I am a campus minister. As such, I still pace my life and divide my seasons by the academic calendar. Since I’m on the academic calendar I usually have a few weeks off around the beginning of a new year. The turn of the new year always spurs me...
by Debbie Boyce | Feb 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
I am writing a short series on Beauty. In my last post I talked about eating and fitness. In the next two posts, I will write about two problems – my belief that I was ugly and the narrow definition of “biblical” womanhood – which created stumbling blocks...
by Debbie Boyce | Nov 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am writing a short series on Beauty. In the last post, I wrote about our clothing. Today I will give some reflections about eating and fitness, with some help from two books, one which is written by two nutritionists and the other which examines how our faith...
by Debbie Boyce | Aug 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am writing a short series on Beauty, how we are tempted to think about it and how God might direct our thoughts about it. In the first post, I encouraged us that the Bible is more concerned with inward beauty than outward beauty. In this post I will discuss how I...
by Debbie Boyce | Jul 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Last spring, I worked together with some other campus ministers on a discussion for our university students on beauty and body image. This is typically a topic discussed by women. Increasingly we are becoming aware of many men who struggle with obsessive concerns...