How legitimate is Christian Head-covering?

Just today, I saw that the ACLU (an obviously evil organization who hates Christians by requiring all those pesky ten commandments be taken down from public spaces) had filed a suit on behalf of a Christian woman who was required to remover her head covering to take her driver’s license photo. This can only be […]

Misnomer

(Some things in Christianity tend to apply equally to all – love, grace, mercy – but there are some teachings that are non-applicable if you don’t happen to be a married believer whose spouse is also a believer. One would think the complement of male headship is female headship, but the former isn’t speaking to […]

Are Gender Roles Exclusive?

We need to accept the tension that all people are very different and also very much the same – and therefore are completely equal, regardless.

Of Devil’s Advocates and Trolls

Sometimes I just don’t know how I get myself into these things. It seems, I not only bear the resemblance of my grandfather, but also his devil’s advocate nature. Something that my previous churches never really encouraged and I didn’t really know could do well until I was out of church altogether. It really spoke […]

The Picture of the Gospel

Since Christians tell me that the relationship of a husband and wife is pretty much the same of Christ and the church, I thought that I’d re-write key passages in Scripture to reflect this idea: For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Husband died for our sins according […]

Interpreting Rhetoric on Silence

There’s a scene in Forrest Gump where an older woman asks Tom Hank’s character this question: “Are you crazy? Or just plain stupid?” – it’s an interesting sort of question to ask. In general – we expect questions that begin with words like who, what, why, when, where, how, and are … but “or” isn’t […]

Faith Comes By Hearing

Public speaking is infamous for being the least favorite subject of a great many students. For most of us, it’s a course we take only once in school but never quite use outside of it. We’re not often called upon to deliver a rousing speech unless an important occasion such as a wedding arises. Even […]

Having All My Marbles

I bet you didn’t know this, but I have a modest collection of marbles. In fact, my collection contains every single marble that will ever exist. I made them all perfectly crystal clear, but a defect manifested itself by turning them all dark from the inside out. Fortunately, I have some water that can be […]

The Knowledge of Saving Faith

I feel like mulling over Calvinism (a.k.a. Reformed Theology, a.k.a.The Doctrines of Grace) today. The first thing that jumps at me is the re-branding that’s been done to it over the years. Something about it has proved troubling enough that the same product has been placed in new packaging in an attempt to sell it […]

Thrice

Sometimes when you hear something once, it’s okay to ignore. Twice, better mull on it. Three times – it has to be important. It seems everywhere I go this week – there’s been somebody saying something to this effect (some harsher, some more subtle): “If you don’t believe as I do, we’re not going to […]