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Welcome back, friends. Today in our Women's Issues series, we're going to be talking about

pretty hot topic that I get asked about pretty regularly. And that is modesty. Yes, the M word,

the one that we tend to want to avoid talking about because it gets so controversial, so fast.

I am no stranger to the modesty conversation and how crazy it can get. In fact, at the beginning

of what I would call my serious writing career, I've been blogging for 12 years, but only in the

last five or six years, what I say, I had a significant following and was actively growing in my

readership. I wrote a blog post that went viral. It had 90,000 hits in one day and became a source

of such great controversy and such vitality that it's actually been mentioned on secular and

Christian podcasts and secular and Christian blog posts, including on refinery 29 and many other

sources. And at first, I'll be honest with you, I wrote this blog post from a pure heart.

I really truly believed in the message. It was something I was personally convicted about

regarding modesty. And when I wrote the post, I was just writing from my current understanding of

what modesty was that it had to do with me and my sexuality and the men around me. And it was

talking about a decision I had made not to wear yoga pants in public without a tunic or something

over them. And it was called the day I wore yoga pants, five myths about modesty. And so in the

blog post, I never told anybody what to do. I never judged anyone, but because of the vitriolic

nature of the modesty conversation, many people took it that way. And I was sent hate mail.

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