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 […]
I gather that there are disagreements in the egalitarian camp on whether true gender traits exist or are only socializations. On the one hand, society creates differences like boys play with toy trucks and not dolls and girls play dress-up and not fix-it-up. Everybody had better line up and adapt. On the […]
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 […]
Andy Rowell noticed three thought-provoking blog posts among 20/30-something bloggers. Below the links are listed and then his summary of some of their practical suggestions.
http://www.generousorthodoxy.net/thinktank/2006/02/more_on_women.html
http://www.thursdaypm.org/blog/rachelle/20060117/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/
http://www.generousorthodoxy.net/thinktank/2006/02/book_discussion.html
The List
1. Be intentional about quoting females.
2. Be an encourager and advocate to women who are working with you and under you.
3. Provide scholarships for women […]
Believers in Christian manhood and womanhood would like us all to believe that there is something about masculinity as it is lived out in America that is crucial to Christianity. What it means to be masculine, however, varies from culture to culture, and has no business being inserted into Christian theology. There are […]
Helping boys to open up about what they are feeling takes effort and education on the part of supervising adults. Step one is to recognize the early signs of masking feelings, such as bad grades, rowdy behavior, overly quiet behavior, verbal denials that anything is wrong when other behaviors say otherwise, drugs or alcohol, […]
The ways people interpret the Bible cause unneeded suffering and avoidable stupidities. I’ve often said that if I believed everything I’ve heard from preachers, I’d be a raving lunatic. Just read the Bible for its plain sense, some people say. Yet a 21st-century view of a passage can be very different from […]
Continuing in Julie Ingersoll’s book, Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles, the author relates the plight of female students at many evangelical seminaries and colleges (interviews conducted between 1993 and 1995 at seven schools in different parts of the U.S.). Gals outnumber guys at evangelical colleges. Some families prefer to […]
Chapter 3 in Julie Ingersoll’s book Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles is called “Conflict in the Lives of Individual Women.” Even women, she says here, who have been groomed and carefully nurtured to be put on the faculty of conservative educational institutions come to believe that’s it’s only an […]
The vast majority of what is published concerning Christian disagreements about gender, at least in academic writing, are logical explications in various spheres of study, such as theology, sociology, history, etc. An awful lot of this writing is rather dry and difficult to wade through, although bits of examples and stories about the affects […]