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| Reclaiming Beauty from Our Sexualized Culture Posted: 24 Oct 2011 07:40 PM PDT Her.menuetics from Christianity Today has posted a blog from Enuma Okoro on "We're Just Friends. No, Really." I was so enouraged by Enuma. With great courage, she claimed the language of beauty for her cross-gender friendship with Andrew: " I believe my friendship with Andrew...is also beautiful for its own sake, without thought of its broader utility." Beauty of course, has been ransacked by Hollywood, by romantic comedies, by our hypersexualized culture. I am so grateful to meet fellow Christians not held captive to our sexualized culture. We may be small in number in the evangelical community, but beauty between men and women is far deeper and broader than what we've seen on comedy movies. With great courage, Enuma steps into the evangelical mainstream and declares her non-romantic friendship with a man to be "beautiful." Why should romance and sex have all the beauty between men and women? She is a boundary-shifting friend.
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