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Archive for August, 2008

The Male Supremacy Test

[Disclaimer: Contrary to popular belief, egalitarian women like men-- men who think we're human, that we're people, that don't consider us enemies to be conquered. And there are many egalitarian men-- brave men who don't bow to culture's long tradition of misogyny, to peer pressure, to bullying. This test is for fun, but also for [...]

A False Dichotomy

In the face of the extreme patriarchy (aka male supremacism, aka complementarianism) movement, many are trying to establish places of dialogue in order to find common or middle ground between that group and Christian Egalitarianism (frequently called by what has become the pejorative “feminism”).
Question: Where is the middle point between extreme and equal? In [...]

Tales from the Crypt

Remember that new cult I told you about? It was born with fangs! Just read some of these quotes and see for yourself. But keep your distance, and don’t read it after a meal. (source)

There is no third way in which one can have both the God of Judeo-Christian tradition, that is, the God of [...]

Heaven’s Partying!

Today’s news, for a change, actually had something very much worth celebrating: the son of a leader of Hamas has openly announced his conversion to Christianity! This is what the Bible says:
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous [...]

High Treason

I check the blog of Constance Cumbey often, and today’s article, “The Family” and its Hi-Jacking of Evangelicalism, is the first part of a series we all need to read. It shows the very deep roots of betrayal of Christianity by its most illustrious leaders, going back decades at the very least.
This is vital knowledge, [...]

Birth of a Cult

For if evangelicals go off again in a fundamentalist separatism while clinging to an unorthodox doctrine of the Trinity, their separation from the rest of the Body of Christ could prove irreparable, like the invention of a new sect in the characteristically American mode of Mormonism or Jehovah’s Witnesses (“The New Evangelical Subordinationism: Reading Inequality [...]