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Do Ten-Year-Old Girls Need Empowerment? By Melanie Springer Mock /June 19, 2017

By design, my husband and I chose raising boys over raising girls. When we decided to adopt, we were asked to state a gender preference…

Nov 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018

When We Are Angela Merkel

Way back in the early years of my career at George Fox University, a colleague (from another department) approached me at a faculty…

Nov 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018

No More Irons!

My yoga studio recently expanded its fitness offerings making it abundantly clear to me just how out of shape I am, despite having been a…

Nov 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018

Becoming Weddle, Again

As a child I can remember waiting for what seemed like an eternity for my upcoming birthday. What presents would I get? Would mom bake my…

Nov 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018

Because God is not a Guy: Why Language Matters

Nov 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018

Becoming Weddle, Again

As a child I can remember waiting for what seemed like an eternity for my upcoming birthday. What presents would I get? Would mom bake my…

Nov 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018

Real Womanhood? (August 18, 2011)

<Melanie Springer Mock> he Rebelution strikes me as a good idea. It’s a Christian movement aimed at teenagers, designed to motivate…

Oct 8, 2018

Oct 8, 2018

Michele Bachmann’s Submission Dilemma (August 16, 2011)

<Kendra Weddle Irons> As a teenager, I led numerous Bible studies. In my grandparents’ basement several peers and I worked through the…

Oct 8, 2018

Oct 8, 2018

Why Every Youth Sports Coach Should Watch Friday Night Tykes

A few weeks ago, I signed on to coach a kindergarten girls’ soccer team. I don’t have any kindergarten children or any girls, but someone…

Sep 18, 2017

Why Every Youth Sports Coach Should Watch Friday Night Tykes

Sep 18, 2017

Why Every Educator Should Watch “Last Chance U”

The university where I teach launched a new football program a few years ago, nearly half a century after another George Fox (then-college)…

Aug 28, 2017

Why Every Educator Should Watch “Last Chance U”

Aug 28, 2017

Melanie Mock

Melanie Mock

English professor, writer, feminist, Mennonite, mother of several, runner of marathons, doer of triathlons, lover of reality television.

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