by Arlene Perez | May 1, 2014 | Feelings
I spent my first 30 years of life in the church being taught that God demanded that women be in submission to men. If we had a husband, then we were in submission to him, but if we were not married, then we were in submission to the pastor, which was always a male,...
by Arlene Perez | Apr 25, 2014 | Feelings
1 Corinthians 13:4-8: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It...
by Arlene Perez | Apr 22, 2014 | Feelings
“And They’ll Know We are Christians by Our Love, by Our Love..Yes! They’ll Know We are Christians by Our Love…” I sang loudly and proudly from the top of my lungs in my early teens because I fully believed these words. To me,...