“When these passages are considered together [Is. 19:16-17; Jer. 50:36-37; 51:29-30; Nah. 3:13], we should conclude that a standard way for the prophets of God to tell a people that their military might has failed them is to say that their warriors have come to the point where they fight like women. A legitimate conclusion …
Women and Hierarchy
“In the hierarchical and biblical view, the relationship of women to men is first familial, and then as a consequence, a larger (and very complex) cultural and societal relationship between the sexes emerges. This means that wives are to submit to, and provide help to, their own husbands (and no one else). As a result …
Uppity Calvinist Women
Visionaries, In his great book Orthodoxy, Chesterton once said, “This began to be alarming. It looked not so much as if Christianity was bad enough to include any vices, but rather as if any stick was good enough to beat Christianity with.” The aptness of this observation is seen in the following missive from Angie: …
Feminism Rips Off Women
“The cultural discipline of honoring women is very important. It is no accident that feminists have succeeded in getting women treated ‘equally’ with men, and now that women are no longer singled out for honor, that the men around them just go with their lusts. The results have not been at all favorable for women. …
Relativism and the Mistreatment of Women
Dear visionaries, Susannah’s questions presuppose a foundational solidarity and allegiance between all men, based on gender alone, and a solidarity of all women, based on gender alone. But there are other factors affecting what she lists, things like suspect statistics, Hinduism, famine, wars, etc. But when it comes to those things that really are done …
Mary Magdalene and Judas the Troubled
Introduction: The tag for this post is Exegetical Fragments, but that is not quite right. There are actually a number of exegetical fragments laid out on the table in front of us here, but I ...
Letters From Out There, Where You Are
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for your ministry.First off, I'm one who made the Rap Battle video with you and Keith Foskey. I hope you enjoyed it. :-)But that's not why I'm writing. I'm ...
In Which We Sadly Cease Having Fun With This
Introduction: So we have come to the conclusion of our review of Disarming Leviathan, Caleb Campbell's call to evangelize Christian nationalists. We have said quite a few things over the course of ...
New Year’s Letter Launch!
Letter to the Editor: You mentioned in your wedding homily that, unlike humans, animals were made male and female at the same time. This runs completely contrary to a poem I recently wrote ...
At Least We Can All Now Spell Venezuela
Introduction: The raid that captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife was a raid that raised a host of questions, but also answered a bunch of them. It was also an attack that got a lot of the chimps ...