{"id":2866,"date":"2010-11-24T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2010-11-24T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:10:46","slug":"being-a-christian-in-a-sorority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/11\/24\/being-a-christian-in-a-sorority","title":{"rendered":"being a Christian in a sorority"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Panhellenic\"<\/a>A recent convert told me she\u2019s struggling with life in her sorority, so I asked another sorority gal I know to give her some advice. <\/p>\n

Sorority gal emailed the recent convert and, with her permission, I\u2019ve anonymized it and present her email for your consideration. I\u2019ve trimmed off the beginning because it\u2019s impossible to anonymize without making it useless (she identifies a specific Christian in the recipient\u2019s sorority for her to connect with), but the rest of her letter is more broadly applicable:<\/p>\n

I think [your sorority and my sorority] may be different in terms of their emphasis on partying and drinking, but I will definitely try to give you my two cents, and if you want to meet up at any point, let me know and I\u2019d love to get together to talk and\/or pray with you about it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have always felt very at home in [my sorority] as a Christian. There are 10\u201315 Christian girls in [my sorority], and many more who aren\u2019t into getting drunk\/hooking up. My big is a Christian, as is my twin, and my twin\u2019s little. I try to surround myself with these girls, rather than the partiers. I do still go out to the events where there is drinking, but I only drink moderately (if at all) and still always have a great time. Do you have a group of girls like this in [your sorority]? Are there other Christians in [your sorority] you can team up with?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another thing that helped me ensure that there are enough events that don\u2019t center around drinking\/partying was getting involved on the sisterhood committee. If you guys have a committee like that, I would encourage you to get involved and make sure those kinds of events are happening. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you are feeling like [your sorority] is a place where you can\u2019t be yourself or where you are encouraged to make poor decisions, deactivating might be the right choice for you. My biggest advice to you would be to pray about it and go with your gut. I do think there is room to be a Christian in Greek life, but I also think it varies a lot depending on the frat\/sorority. Many of my closest friends aren\u2019t Christian, and I think this can definitely make it more difficult to do the right thing at times. But, I think that as long as you have that Christian community somewhere, you can make it work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I feel like I haven\u2019t done a very good job giving you advice here, so please let me know if you want to talk about it over coffee or something!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that, on the whole, it is pretty good advice. What would you have said?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent convert told me she\u2019s struggling with life in her sorority, so I asked another sorority gal I know to give her some advice.  Sorority gal emailed the recent convert and, with her permission, I\u2019ve anonymized it and present her email for your consideration. I\u2019ve trimmed off the beginning because it\u2019s impossible to anonymize \u2026 Continue reading \u201cbeing a Christian in a sorority\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-opinions-and-general-contrariness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Ke","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}