Update: Laura Turner has quietly corrected her article in line with at least one of my criticisms of it, but without acknowledging that she was doing so. Just so you know. I do need to respond to this article, but I am also in two minds about it. In order to interact with this stuff …
Moving Out of Range
I have written before of the problems faced by a trapped wife, and I wanted to lay out some exegetical guidance for a woman in that position. I want to assume that we are talking about a genuinely destructive relationship, and that it is a marriage between two professing Christians. The reason for limiting the …
Evan and Joy
As both scientists and poets have noted, men and women are completely different. At the same time, they are clearly created by God to be one. As a violin and bow are one instrument, or a lock and key one mechanism, so also a bride and groom are one. God made them to be one, …
Down a Grassy Esplanade
And Feelings began to teach the multitudes, and the people followed them gladly, for they taught with authority, and not as the Facts (Gospel of Thomas, Menopausal Skateboarder’s Study Edition). The feelings that will really get you somewhere these days, at least at places like the University of Missouri and the rest of America, are …
Book of the Month/November 2015
I regularly get books sent to me in the mail, and lots of them look good to me. That means that I am glad I now own them, and look forward to the time when I might read them. But occasionally a book is sent to me that I just have to read right away. …
On Planting Black Damnation
The judgments of God are organic. That is, they do not operate in a mechanical way, as though dispensed from a vending machine. But they do operate in predictable ways, ways that we should be able to anticipate. We understand seedtime and harvest, and so we should also be aware that it is not possible …
Surveying the Text: Isaiah
Introduction: Isaiah is one of the great prophetic works of the Old Testament. Majestic in scope, lofty in vision, tenderhearted with regard to sinners, and powerful in application, the prophet Isaiah is frequently cited by New Testament authors. With the exception of the Psalter, no book had more influence on the New Testament than this …
A Greco-Roman Milieu Participle
Jory Micah has kindly taken up the challenge presented by my recent post on Love and Respect over at Desiring God. I would like to return the compliment, making me a complimentarian, and I would like to return the compliment with all my heart, making me an extreme complimentarian. I begin this way because Jory …
Hammering Some Cold Iron
One of the developing memes in my recent controversies is that I like to wax eloquent when writing about sovereign and efficacious grace, but that I do this because I am all about grace for the repentant abuser. Big time grace for the victim, not so much. This is a charge that is wildly, uproariously, …
A North Korean Line Dancing Contest
About three years ago, Nancy was invited to speak at a women’s retreat in Bloomington, Indiana. We hate being separated, so I tagged along. The retreat was sponsored by a church pastored by a friend of mine, and so the thought occurred to somebody that I could also do some event while I was there. …