“Robert P. Warner II had been the kind of boy in high school who managed his injuries as a mother hen hovers over her chicks. He was a master of communicating physical distress to others, but the nature of the injury and the nature of the distress he would subsequently manifest were not really in …
After the Crash
“Before the Fall, certain motions between husband and wife were just natural, normal, right, and effortless. After the Crash (as we might just as well call it), all of us who are redeemed in Christ are going through intensive ‘physical therapy’ in order to relearn some of those fundamental motions. Just like a victim of …
Out of the Depths
“The sofa was of the old gray mare swayback school of design, and from somewhere within the cushions, de profundis, came a groan from Robert P.” (Evangellyfish, p. 120).
Look to the Glory
“Although the man leads in the dance, the result of his leading is to showcase his lady. This is because he is dancing with his glory, and the last thing in the world he should want to do is upstage his own glory. It would make no sense: ‘Stop looking at my glory! Look at …
The Scoreboard Frozen
“The more Chad exhibited control of his grades, ambitions, hair, junior high Day-timer, briefcase, and other sundry accomplishments, the more his father withheld approval. This battle between them was actually a battle for fundamental control of their relationship, and a year after Chad graduated from college, his father triumphed in their running battle by dying …
A Dance, Not a Fistfight
“We have to keep reminding ourselves lest we slip back into understanding submission as an attempt to cope with raw power. That is not it at all. Authority and submission together are a dance, not a fistfight. Moreover, it is a dance grounded in the way things ultimately are, because this is the way our …
Even Creeps
“But even creeps have hopes, dreams, aspirations. Even creeps have a story and perhaps a brief moment in their toddler years when they were cute” (Evangellyfish, p. 111).
All Head Covering, No Cattle. So to Speak
“The conservative Christian world has no small number of big time submission mamas who are anything but submissive” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 65).
An Important Art Form Actually
“He stood there, looking as solemn as a judge, for which the girls were thoroughly grateful. He attended a small charismatic church in the area, and for him, dealing with overshare was a way of life, an art form” (Evangellyfish, p. 109).
One Is Enough
It is remarkable how many places in Scripture emphasize that women are to be submissive to their own husbands. What this means is liberation from having to submit to all the others” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 64).