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What Is Maundy Thursday?—How to Celebrate During Holy Week

As we celebrate Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter, you may start to wonder, what is Maundy Thursday? Three days before Easter, we come to Maundy Thursday. "Maundy" comes from the Latin word "mandatum," meaning command, order, or commission.

Abby & Brittany: Conjoined Twin Abby Hensel is Married!

They’re the most famous conjoined twins in the world, and now Abby Hensel, of the duo Abby and Brittany, is now married! 

Babysitter Knows Mom Is “Paranoid” After Her Baby’s Death—So She Texts Her This Picture

The 15-year-old needed to make a sandwich, but she didn't want to let the baby out of her sight. She was in quite the predicament.

This Is What a Man’s Brain Looks Like When He Sees You in a Bikini. You’re Gonna Wanna See This.

What many don’t know is that the inventor of America’s favorite swimwear, French engineer Louis Reard, actually named the bikini after the site of the atomic bomb testing that year—Bikini Atoll—because he thought that the public’s reaction would be “like an atomic bomb explosion.”

And he was right.

But after the sexual revolution of the 1960s, the once taboo suit gained much wider acceptance, and now it’s become the beach wear of choice for little girls to full-grown women of all shapes, sizes and colors.

Bikinis have been branded as sexy, strong and confident; while one-pieces have been dismissed as old-school, ugly and just plain boring. And paired with the swimwear selections offered in most stores today, I’ll be the first to admit, those perceptions play into my purchasing decisions BIG time (like the last one-piece I owned MAY have been in 3rd grade).

A New York Times Reporter even coined the bikini the “millennial equivalent of the power suit.”

Well if that’s the case, Jessica Rey has just one question: Why aren’t women more empowered?

Kelsey Straeter
Kelsey Straeter
Kelsey is an editor at Outreach. She’s passionate about fear fighting, freedom writing, and the pursuit of excellence in the name of crucifying perfectionism. Glitter is her favorite color, 2nd only to pink, and 3rd only to pink glitter.

What Is Maundy Thursday?—How to Celebrate During Holy Week

As we celebrate Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter, you may start to wonder, what is Maundy Thursday? Three days before Easter, we come to Maundy Thursday. "Maundy" comes from the Latin word "mandatum," meaning command, order, or commission.

Abby & Brittany: Conjoined Twin Abby Hensel is Married!

They’re the most famous conjoined twins in the world, and now Abby Hensel, of the duo Abby and Brittany, is now married! 

Babysitter Knows Mom Is “Paranoid” After Her Baby’s Death—So She Texts Her This Picture

The 15-year-old needed to make a sandwich, but she didn't want to let the baby out of her sight. She was in quite the predicament.