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 consulted a relative of mine, Dr. Sara Brandt, who is a registered Marriage and Family Therapist about whether she sees differences regarding divorce and happiness in egalitarian vs. hierarchical marriages. She claimed to not be an expert on the subject as she does not get many couples who have a hierarchical marriage due […]
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 […]
Each year in 28 African countries two million girls undergo what is euphemistically called “female circumcision,” but what is really mutilation and excision of the female external genitalia and clitoris (clitorectomy). “One quarter of them die as a result.” [Daughers of Hope by Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett, p. 12]
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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 […]
Hierarchicalists charge that egalitarians are wrong when they deny the principle that there is no necessary connection between women’s roles and their worth. This is a false charge because we do not believe there is a necessary link. School principals certainly do not have more human worth than teachers, and the idea that […]
Ho, ho! The Feminist Mormon Housewives blog has finally taken up the subject of sex in Mormon families in a posting called Sex Talk. Comments approaching 250.
My denomination, the Reformed Church in America, permitted the ordination of women in 1979, and although over 200 women have been graduated from their seminaries since then, not many get pastorates or other Christian leadership positions. Kristine Veldheer, in “Finding Affirmation,” Church Herald, June 1989, p. 29, said the following: “The greatest frustration […]
Traditionalists have been railing ever since the 1960’s that feminism causes both males and females to lose their sexual identity. Everything from unisex clothing to — horror-of-horrors — unisex bathrooms were seen as confusing everyone until they didn’t know what sex they were anymore. This simply hasn’t happened. Yes, a few men […]
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 […]