READER'S EXCHANGE

 

Your magazine has meant a great deal to us. God has enabled you to express truths that we have felt strongly for years. The Church of Christ is really undergoing some painful but wonderful changes. I am so grateful that God is using you in this way, and you write with such love. We are learning so much — San Antonio 

In your June issue (Our Changing World) you left a parting barb and ran since you won't he back until fall. It was in regard to the present day status of women. The statistics you gave may be true but misleading. You concluded that "Men are allowing women to take over our world." Men are "not allowing" anything. Women are just now getting the awareness and support that they have been without for centuries. Divorce? Your inferred condemnation is correct in a way and not in another. Marriage is taken too lightly these days, that's true, but among older men and women its another story. Either men are enticed to younger women or abused women are learning they don't have to take it anymore. As for women taking over man's world, there is no danger yet. Women in management is only token, like one in ten. Many women are in the workforce, but mostly in low paid, subservient jobs. They would rather work part-time in a high paid job so that they can handle their full-time job easier, homemaking. I know I would. Brother Garrett, you do try to be fair with women, but you have a ways to go. Let me help you. I have shown this article to other women who are responsible and intelligent. They don't want to take over the world, but to contribute their considerable expertise in making it a better world. — Joan Morrison, Worthington, Oh.

 (The item referred to was not so much my own judgment as it was a statistical report I picked up at Princeton. The author was not criticizing women's ambition or aggression as much as men's copping out. More and more men are retiring earlier, leaving the workforce, and willingly turning the world over to women, irrespective of what women may want. So said the report, but it is only statistics, a trend. My point was to show in the light of all the statistics referred to that our world is indeed changing. As for what Joan Morrison says above, I agree, including the statement that I have a ways to go and need help. —Ed.)

Your book The Stone-Campbell Movement has been a wealth of information for my class preparation, and your journal continues to be a great source of ideas and illustration. May God continue to bless your work for the unity of the family of God. — Georgia

Your book should be a must for everyone raised in the Church of Christ. Do not be discouraged. God has led you in your writings. That is very clear. Sometimes when we speak truth, it is too hard for some to grasp. You, sir, have touched my life. God has worked through you and in you. Blessed are your feet. — Plano, Tx.

(This is a good place to remind you that there are two ways you can own your own copy of the history book referred to. You can buy it outright from our office for $21.95, a bargain for a 739-page hardbound book, and if you send a check with your order we pay the postage, no small item these days. Or you can get a free copy when you send us a club of eight subs for this paper at $3.00 each, new or renewal, including your own, a total of $24.00. The $3.00 rate applies only to clubs of four or more. Single subs are $5.00 per annum or $8.00 for two years. —Ed.)

You truly light up my life! Now I know something of the grace of my lord. Wow! May God continue His blessings upon you in all that you are doing — opening eyes and hearts to truth. — New Mexico

We do not know who sent our name to you, but we are extremely thankful they did. — Arkansas

(This is a frequent response from readers who were introduced to the paper by someone else. This party not only renewed but sent in a list of names of others. You can do likewise. Go ahead, send us those names that you may not be sure about. They too might be "extremely thankful." —Ed.)