Warring Ideals

Growing up in the States, it tends to amaze me how we can have this tension about our cultural peculiarities. On the one hand, we’re immensely proud of being Americans and all that entails, but we also look fondly on our incomplete cultural heritage. We talk about how our ancestors are from this country or […]

A.C.E. – Accelerated Christian Education

You are about to attend a school unlike any other; it’s an education unlike any public or private school and it really deserves another word to describe it. It is Accelerated Christian Education. You walk into a room to find a series of carrels (I’m used to the word cubicle) that are designed so that […]

God and the fullness of gender

This is something that complementarianism can miss about God, how their ideas about gender tend to create a separation. What if God is more like chocolate milk – such a completely thorough mix of male and female that there’s no point in parting one from the other?

Officially Authorized or Not At All

Have you ever written into a specific ministry hoping for a “yes” to your question? Or were you writing to one looking forward to them telling you “no”? Even little kids understand, depending on which answer you want – you ask a specific authority. For me, if I wanted a “yes” I’d ask my mom […]

Deacons: In Service of the Gospel

The same goes for those who want to be servants in the church: serious, not deceitful, not too free with the bottle, not in it for what they can get out of it. They must be reverent before the mystery of the faith, not using their position to try to run things. Let them prove […]

I Dare You

Originally posted on Jloraye:
I was seven years old, sitting in my metal student desk, wearing my appropriate length skirt, staring up at the hole-y paddle on the wall, when I was first told girls couldn’t be pastors. I went home and cried and told my mom I wanted to be a boy. How dare…

Origin

It occurs to me that I never really talked about where my blog’s identity: “Be Persuaded” came from. It hails from an unlikely Bible verse: Hebrews 13:17, which says: “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do […]

Ideal Complementarianism

Have you ever had an ideal concept of something that turned out very differently when it was actually put into practice? I remember the time my friend asked me to join the Robotics Club at school; she was sure we would both get in and that as members of the team we would create and […]

Who’s In Charge … ?

So apparently some questions has been raised about the nature of authority over spiritual bloggers. Apparently, each and everyone of us are household names, with thousands of followers who hang on our every word. Well, not me and the rest of the vast majority of the blogosphere who maintain tiny specks of blogs that hardly […]

Morality

Morality seems to be a big discussion topic of late; whether it’s subjective or objective, relative or definite, right or wrong – people have had a lot to say on the subject. The first point I made was that The Bible, even if it were magically preserved and without fault or error of any kind, […]