I don’t know why people have to segregate themselves into like-minded groups – perhaps it’s an ancient instinct that coded into the fabric of our make-up. That there was inherently something safer about people who were just like us and something more dangerous about people who were different from us. In Christianity, there’s all sorts […]
Month: July 2016
On Respectable Head-covering
Protestant/Evangelical Christian Head Covering has always been something I’ve disliked ever since I learned that people have decided to try to resurrect it from it’s death half a century ago. Catholic Veiling, Amish Head Covering, hasn’t been anything I’ve been too worried about as it’s a different tradition and usually I don’t think of it […]
Always Learning, Never Knowing
always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.– 2 Timothy 3:7 What’s your favorite thing to learn? Me, I’m partial to learning languages. It’s probably the first thing I really get excited about. I could spend hours explaining the finer points of grammar, or exploring a concept that doesn’t exist […]
There’s no Future Without the Present
In an interview with the Times of London, Leadsom said: “I don’t really know Theresa very well, but I am sure she will be really, really sad she doesn’t have children. So I don’t want this to be ‘Andrea has got children, Theresa hasn’t,’ because I think that would be really horrible. But genuinely I […]
Counter-Counter Cultural
Christians seem to think that they’re living a counter-cultural lifestyle by being stay-at-home moms married to hard-working dads. The world is a chaotic place to them, where moms hold down jobs and dads are the ones that stay at home. T.V. shows featuring male nannies have them quaking in their boots. What has really happened […]
Doesn’t Fit
If my marshaling of scientific evidence against the test failed to change many minds, I hope that the narrative in which that evidence is embedded makes my larger point: that human beings are far too complex, too mysterious and too interesting to be defined by the banal categories of personality tests. – http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/25/483108905/personality-tests-are-popular-but-do-they-capture-the-real-you When I […]
The Inerrancy Card
The last few decades of Christianity has been featuring a lot of newness. New music, new churches, new styles, and new teachings. That’s why I might point out that there are some things – certain teachings, specifically – that even my grandparents have never heard of in their day … and they’ve been around for […]
Be Persuaded 