The besetting sin of the various conservative or traditionalist movements of our generation is that they have repeatedly attempted, over the course of decades, to fight the problem of egalitarianism as ...
That Rancid Reservoir, Filled With Guilt
The Feminine Battle Within
“The prophecy that her desire would be for her husband to (Gen. 3:16) was not predicting romantic getaways but rather that there would be a struggle for mastery. So instead of trying to get mastery over her husband, she should struggle to get mastery over this besetting impulse within herself.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 118
Masterfully Done . . .
Where Patriarchy Begins
“In a healthy society, if wives are generally submissive to their own husbands, there will be a cheerful deference to the leadership of men generally, a reality to be welcomed and not resented. The end result generally will be a patriarchal society.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 116
Submission Gone Weird
“Submission denied can take pathological forms. This is why we have sad-masochism, rape fantasies, bondage and submission games, and Fifty Shades of Hurt Me Baby. Such is the nature of our demented times” ().
Concise and to the Point, p. 114
Jehovah and the Midterms
This is the last regularly scheduled post before I move into NQN beast mode and, as it turns out, it is also the last post before the midterms—those foreboding midterms. I have something of a rag bag of thoughts for you all on that topic, and so I have put them down for you in …
Letters That Come Up With the Sun
Letter to the Editor: Good overview, but I think two key things are missing.One claimed cause was that students were upset that the schools they go to, but other people pay for, are underfunded. ...
Things Are Fine
Blinkered Dogmatism
“More is involved in raising up a godly seed than for a man to have dogmatic convictions about birth control, matched only by his unwillingness to feed, read to, educate, pay tuition for, bestow upon, and love the results of his dogmatism. There are no promised covenantal blessings for the self-absorbed proprietors of stud farms.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 108
Go Home, Europe, You’re Drunk
Introduction: One lesson that is soon learned in pastoral ministry is that you don’t try to counsel people, or evangelize them either for that matter, when they are drunk. Save your energy for sweeping water uphill. But the tenderhearted feel so sorry for the person who is, um, impaired, that they want to step in …