Mar
03
2010
I just read The Role of Women in the Church, another typical male supremacy-endorsing document, and I'm really tired of such things. But because these familiar claims and arguments keep being promoted, there is a need to keep refuting them, beginning here with their Introduction.
"Western culture has undergone a dramatic shift in its view of [...]
Feb
11
2010
Read these few passages on how the community of believers in the Jesus who rose from the dead are to arrange themselves:
1 Cor. 12:4-6 There are various gifts but the same Spirit; there are various services but the same Master; there are various actions but the same God works in all of them. To each [...]
Oct
26
2009
No one can serve two masters. — Mt. 6:24, Luke 16:13
I just read an interesting article by a William Welty about 1 Cor. 11:2-16, which concerns head coverings. I found the link through another article of his called Does Nature Teach?, as part of the ISV Bible’s website. This topic is overdue for the kind [...]
Sep
30
2009
As you know, pasteurization is the process by which bad things — and good things too— in food (usually liquids, and especially milk and fruit juices) are destroyed. But what I call “pastorization” is pretty much the spiritual equivalent: some good may come of it, but something important in the Body of Christ dies too.
Many [...]
Sep
02
2009
At this blog an old, old list of male supremacist scripture twisting is repeated for the umpteenth time. But my focus this time is not on the list itself but the comments on this particular reincarnation of it.
At comment 10 begins some, shall we say, interesting claims. The first is a classic example of ad [...]
Jul
19
2009
In Jesus’ “sermon on the mount” in Matthew, particularly chapter 6, He speaks of those who have traded the approval of God and His wages for those of mere humans. We normally think first of those who “give to charity” for show, or to reduce their taxes, or like Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11), to [...]