1 Corinthians 8 talks about food sacrificed to idols. The Corinthian church was infamous for it’s in-fighting and divisions, it’s unfairness and inequality, it’s acceptance of sinning sinners and the sins they sin, among other things. If there was a church that didn’t get anything right, that is, if they got anything right at all, […]
Month: June 2016
God’s Gender Gospel
It’s not uncommon for inexperienced drivers to over-correct themselves into a ditch. There they were, not paying attention because of a distraction or perhaps a little drowsy from a long day, until they feel the ridges telling them they’ve gone beyond the limits of their lane. They jerk the wheel too quickly and too far […]
Talking About Singleness
One thing I have come to learn in recent weeks is that the things that people talk about most are the things they care about the most. I’ve eavesdropped on all sorts of conversations – from family to fishing, from shows to sports, from church to cooking. In Christianity, the conversation is usually centered on […]
Serving Single Christians: Acknowleding Failure
Swimming against the tide is never easy. It’s tiring and can make you feel that you aren’t making very much progress. In a marriage-obsessed Christianity, being a single Christian is swimming against the tide … and it’s being invisible. Statistically, in the states, the number of people who are single slightly outnumber the married couples […]
Covering Headship
Earlier this month, Mortification of Spin featured a guest post asking: “Is it Okay to teach a Complementarianism Based on Eternal Subordination?” It didn’t take long for the conversation to be picked up and for responses to be written by far more capable people than I. But in all of this, the headcovering verses that […]
Same Difference
I’ve been thinking about how many distinct meanings these words have. Same: identical, not different; not having changed, unchanged; used to emphasize that one is referring to a particular unique person or thing; referring to a person or thing just mentioned; of an identical type; exactly similar. Different: not the same as another or each […]
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The whole church had gathered and had only begun to listen to the newest letter being read to them. These verses were read: “I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women […]
The Rabbi’s Talmidim
The other day, I was in a conversation about the reason why only men could be priests and that was that the Twelve and Paul were men who were specially commissioned. I pointed out that the Twelve and Paul were Jewish, mostly from the Galilee and had distinctive accents. If one was to take their […]
Be Persuaded 