The tendency today is to stress the equality of men and women by minimizing the unique significance of our maleness or femaleness. But this depreciation of male and female personhood is a great loss. It is taking a tremendous toll on generations of young men and women who do not know what it means to be a man or a woman. Confusion over the meaning of sexual personhood today is epidemic. The consequence of this confusion is not a free and happy harmony among gender-free persons relating on the basis of abstract competencies. The consequence rather is more divorce, more homosexuality, more sexual abuse, more promiscuity, more social awkwardness, and more emotional distress and suicide that come with the loss of God-given identity.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Eggs			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Chopped walnuts
1 1/2	c	Whole wheat flour
2/3	c	Bran cereal; (All-Bran or Bran Buds)
1	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Chopped dates
1	lg	Egg; lightly beaten
1 3/4	c	Unsweetened applesauce
1/3	c	Packed dark brown sugar
2	tb	Canola oil
1	ts	Cinnamon

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 425*F. Coat muffin cups with nonstick spray.
2. Spread walnuts in a shallow pan and bake for 3 to 5 minutes, or until
fregrant. Let cool.
3. In large bowl, whisk flour, bran cereal, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
Stir in dates and walnuts.
4. In a bowl, whisk egg, applesauce, brown sugar and oil until smooth,.
Make a well in dry ingredients and mix in wet ingredients until just
combined. (Do not overmix.)
5. Divide batter among the prepared muffin cups. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes,
or until tops spring back when touched lightly. Loosen edges and turn
muffins out onto a wire rack to cool. Makes 12 Muffins.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  by Alice Poe <afpoe@swbell.net> on Mar 24,
1998

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