{"id":2216,"date":"2013-07-03T07:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2013-07-03T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:22:22","slug":"now-you-can-be-modest-in-any-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/07\/03\/now-you-can-be-modest-in-any-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Now you can be modest in any situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m moving along with my <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/06\/20\/colon-cancer\/\">colon cancer<\/a> recovery and figured I&#8217;d jump back into the skeptic blogging pool a bit. I want to thank everyone for their kind comments and private messages. You guys rock.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s time to proceed forward so today I present this little gem of a .pdf.<\/p>\n<p>Mary K. Mohler, Director of the Seminary Wives Institute at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has written a short, handy, guide on how to be modest.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">As we narrow our look at modesty to the issue of clothing, it<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">is easily observed that when women of the world head out in the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">morning, they are not concerned about appearing modest. Instead,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">most women are heading out hoping that they are in vogue, in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">fashion and not wearing last year\u2019s styles. Many clamor to be in step<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">with whatever Hollywood has trotted out.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trotted out. That&#8217;s a great phrase.<\/p>\n<p>Mohler advises against becoming a &#8220;Clueless Clarice&#8221; who runs out with a shirt that&#8217;s too tight. Disorganized Delores winds up wearing (gah!) shorts that are too tight while on a diaper run. Stylish Stephanie is in particularly tough shape because she wears blouses that are too low-cut.<\/p>\n<p>Poor Dieting Diane is a yo-yo dieter. You can probably guess what her problem is.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Does God care how we dress? Yes, He does. He cares about<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">every aspect of our lives. We are called to holiness, holiness in what<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">we do, what we say, where we go, how we act, how we think, what<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">we listen to, what we read, what we sing, and yes, how we dress.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good lord, I wonder what she&#8217;d have to say about how my poor swollen belly made my summer shorts too tight. She&#8217;d probably call me &#8220;Cancer Cathy.&#8221; Or how &#8217;bout &#8220;Tumor Tammy.&#8221; Perhaps &#8220;Malignant Mary&#8221; would do the trick.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, stretchy cotton shorts are my friend this year, but I&#8217;m not sure what her thoughts are on that garment. Everyone says I look &#8220;smashing,&#8221; but I think they&#8217;re being kind considering the cancer stuff and all. Never expect honesty from people who look at you like you&#8217;re\u00a0 a cancer patient. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The point? Ladies (not men), we must be careful how we dress. After all, the &#8220;lost world&#8221; is watching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Download it<a href=\"http:\/\/girltalk.blogs.com\/girltalk\/files\/ModelingModesty.pdf\"> here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Well, I&#8217;m moving along with my colon cancer recovery and figured I&#8217;d jump back into the skeptic blogging pool&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}