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 […]
Category: Trinity
Eve’s Image
I’m told that from the very beginning, both male and female were made in the image of God. Male alone doesn’t represent who and what God is. Female alone doesn’t represent who an what God is. In recent decades, much has been made of Adam imaging God’s masculinity. But there’s little discussion as to Eve […]
Keeping Order in Order
Yesterday I borrowed a scene from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, an episode called Accession to point out that if we truly believed that hierarchies were the foundation of every human relationship, we’d create a system and vocabulary to articulate it and expectations to live it out. It involves viewing everyone as either your servant […]
Everything’s Order
While studying creation order, I learned that authority and submission is part of the very nature of God; one that he imprinted upon humanity in the form of our relationships. Just as the Father has authority over the Son and the Holy Spirit and the Son submits to the Father and has authority over the […]
Be Persuaded 