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 […]
Category: Order
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 […]
Did the Word originate with you? Are you the only ones it has reached?
“Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. Or did the word of God […]
You’re so special, so very special …
Women are special, Christianity teaches, so special that they’ve been tasked with being wives and mothers – and this keeps them so very busy that minor things like preaching, teaching, and leading are assigned to the men (men don’t really want to do them, but somebody has to and it can’t be women). The importance […]
B.F. (Before Feminism)
(Sexism) was a fact of life I simply had to accept. Men felt threatened and mistrustful of women who had good ideas, and one had to employ immense tact when dealing with directors and producers. – Olivia de Haviland, 100 year old actress “What really burns me up,” Gertrude Legendre wrote in October 1941, “is […]
The Role of Humility
What Jesus wants of each and every one of us is the very same thing; he’s not all that concerned with husbands being better spiritual leaders as they exercise their authoritative headship over their God-ordained subordinates or with wives being better helpers as they joyfully and intelligently submit to their God-ordained superiors. He didn’t want […]
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, […]
Ruling Structure
The Greek word hierarchia, “rule of a high priest” from hierarkhes, “leader of sacred rites”, has evolved into the concept we now know as a hierarchy – an arrangement of pretty much anything in which the items are represented as being “above”, “below”, or “at the same level” as another item. Long before the word […]
Roman Regulations
The world you live in is Rome’s, their laws, their power. You cannot defeat them in the streets. There is another way. So many times I talk with Christians about things like household codes, there’s this disconnection with the power and influence of Rome and what’s taught applied to us here and now. We’re missing […]
Unquestioning
I usually say what I mean. I usually assume everyone else does, too. For one, it’s just easier: “I would like the red one, please.” is a pretty simple statement. The one you want is red, you don’t want the green or blue one. But for those who say things they don’t mean, “I would […]
Be Persuaded 