People like to look back at the year just ending and ask questions: Where did the time go? Did I get done what I had hoped? Why can’t we get rid of the Infernal Robbery Service (IRS) so I wouldn’t have had to do all that record keeping?
But while a lot of that can’t be [...]
I never cease to be amazed at people’s capacity for twisted thinking and blind devotion to reprehensible traditions. I refer to today’s news article about a Muslim woman who got “re-virginized” before her wedding.
Talk about things that make you go “Huh??”!
She wants to honor her family by “proving her virginity” to her husband-to-be. I don’t [...]
Often we here someone say “A plain reading of the text here tells us…”, especially if the matter being discussed is controversial. Everyone says they’re just doing a “plain reading” of the scriptures. But it is literally impossible to read anything at all without interpreting as we go, so what exactly is a “plain reading”, [...]
Every war has its roots; they don’t just pop up suddenly and without warning. If you’ve read some of the material here on the issue of women and the Bible, you know that this war began with God’s putting hostility between Eve and the serpent, between her “seed” and his. Women have been the devil’s [...]
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