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Equality

Adults and children are equal, right? I mean, they all are of equal worth and value as human beings, all made in God's image. Equally necessary to God's kingdom, right? It's not that I think Christian complementarians a…
Way to sum it up . . .

An acquaintance posted the link on Facebook to this series of books by Mark Driscoll. It quite amused me to see the images chosen to represent each topic: The titles from left to right are: On the Old Testament On th…
Quote of the Day - bloggers

Since we started the blog over a year ago I've come across the network of theology blogs out there in the world. As most of you know, I love theology so getting into the mind of those asking great questions and enga…
Complementarians and Egalitarians

I wasn't planning to tackle the subject of gender for weeks yet (actually, at the rate I blog, probably months) but due to recent circumstances I've decided to make exceptions. I can't hold out that long. Anyway, in Eva…
Random Observation on Gender

I've seen a tendency among some Christians to conflate character development with expressing gender. That is, masculinity and femininity are each described as a list of virtues, and conversely, men and women are sometime…
Quote of the Day -- the New Reformed

One [concern about the movement] is this: they would do well to know their own tradition better.Consider as a case study the doctrine of divine sovereignty. I take itto be universally accepted (or at least nearly so) a…
Quote of the Day - the preacher

Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higherthan the average, some rhetorical affluence and great glibness ofspeech, what is the career in which, without aid of birth or money, hemay most easily a…
Blame, and why humility is overrated

Christians (or perhaps even our culture in general) seem to me to be rather obsessed with guilt and blame. Whenever there's a bad situation, we pick it apart to find exactly whose fault it is, and who's the relatively in…
A generalization about conservative Christianity

People don't want to be given options and left to make up their own minds; they want to be told what to believe. I think this simple fact explains so much of the sheer stupidity I see in popular religion.
Quote of the Day -- sophisticated hermeneutic vs. the laity

Here are some tidbits from Noll’s book:As early as 1846 . . . Leonard Bacon [a Northerner], whovery much wanted to oppose slavery as a sin, nonetheless hung back. Hisanalysis of the ‘spirit’ over ‘letter’ argument ca…