Signs of an Abusive Partner

You would think that any organization bent on match-making would thoroughly educate it’s members in what to look for as a warning side of potential trouble. I find that with Christianity, people are pretty much left to their own devices – which might explain some of the difficulties they face. For one, I don’t remember […]

Before

Complementarians tell me that the pre-fall gender roles was glorious perfect headship and flawless submission. They tell me that sin distorted them. Men still had headship, but they were harsh or passive. Women still had to submit but they were usurpers or doormats. Then Jesus turned back the curses and restored the roles. Men had […]

What it is Not About

It’s been a few months since I was blocked from The Head Covering Movement for agreeing with someone who suggested that sometimes some people who are pro-Head Covering can lose their perspective because their love for Head Coverings blinds them to Christianity outside of the context of Head Coverings. Take Locks for Love, for example, […]

What It Is About

A response to: http://www.headcoveringmovement.com/articles/why-headcovering-is-not-about-modesty One thing that’s enjoyable about dystopian novels and films is that you can imagine and see a world where segregation is problematic. One terrible thing about reality is that we have a way of making fiction seem like a poor shadow of the evils humanity is capable of inflicting on our […]

Image Bearers

A caricature is an exaggerated representation of someone. Sometimes the books about Biblical Manhood & Biblical Womanhood toe the line of caricaturing masculinity and femininity. There’s a dedicated book-shelf to the subject in one of the more neglected corners of this house, name any well-known book and odds are it’s there … sitting unread. I […]

Tradition

Coming from a Protestant background – I’ve been predisposed to view tradition as something inherently suspicious. History had shown us how things like tradition could easily steer people away from the reality of the faith. We had heard about indulgences and purgatory and saw that our Bibles didn’t support the idea, so we were duly […]

Nature’s Lesson

Nature is not the green trees and gentle brooks, the majestic mountains or wide open prairies – at least, not in 1 Corinthians 11. The ancient Greek understanding of ‘nature’ is (1.) The thing from which a thing grows without interference and (2.) The tendency of a thing to grow without interference. It is is […]