Colleges are rejecting women at much higher rates than men, according to an article in this week’s U.S. News & World Report. In 1980 males and females attended colleges in approximately equal numbers, in 2006 women made up 57 percent and by 2010 are expected to increase to 60 percent of those attending college. […]
Christians of all stripes make mistakes, but usually they are not quite as public as when a pastor stumbles in a service. I was present at a very painful service earlier this month in Ecuador which started out with good intentions but ended in fiasco. A little girl of 13 in a gorgeous […]
I’ve been reading Hugh Hewitt’s Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World, which compares blogging to the Gutenberg printing press, the evils of cultural elite punditry of left-wing bias to the evils of Catholic indulgences, the undoing of the Main-Stream Media to the undoing of the medieval Catholic Church. Just as Luther […]
Much has been written recently about a Watertown, New York, elderly woman who was fired after teaching Sunday School for 54 years for simply being a woman. See the Associated Press story, Ben’s blog post and Dan’s as well. It turns out that the story is more complicated than that — that the […]
I’ve just returned from Kenya where I was a part of a 27-person team which provided health care to Kenyans who could not afford health care in their own country. We spent the first week in western Kenya at Nyengena under the auspices of Global Health Outreach and the second week in Dandora, a […]
Isn’t it great just how original we all are? How on Earth did God make us so unique, so fascinating, so specifically ourselves? Just think of all the gifts and interests God has given us so that we might reach others who are similar, yet even more different still. These differences are […]
When one writes for awhile on the subject of gender and Biblical equality, one wonders whether all the words sound just a little too negative when all that is meant is to try to make things just a little better in church, at home, and in the world at large. So it’s good every […]
I’m not so sure that feminists and egalitarians aren’t shooting themselves in the foot when they actively de-emphasize differences between the sexes. In my experience a high percentage of people not only see their spouses as quite different from themselves, but they see more similarities between themselves and their (same-sex) buddies. In fact, […]
Does God have a dark side? Would he punish or even damn souls who don’t surrender to Him in this life? Even those who never heard? No second chances? Even in the afterlife? What looks like injustice to us is also injustice to God. There is no “higher” God […]
After Tony Campolo speaks to Christians at church or other gatherings about marriage and family, as he is asked now and then to do, he often gets a man who stands up and says, “But you haven’t answered the real question…. Who’s supposed to be the head of the house?”
Should Christians ever ask who […]