“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).
Checkmate
“Still, she was a devoted mother, which meant that the girls were simultaneously appreciative and at their wit’s end” (Evangellyfish, p. 105).
Defend the Right Thing
“In this fallen world, glorious things are slandered and caricatured first, and sometimes the defenders of such things find themselves defending the caricature and not the reality” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 63).
With the Bark Still In
“They were within walking distance of a number of upscale eateries and had no trouble picking out a little bistro with espresso and ferns, the kind of place that served exotic little art sandwiches with bark still in the bread” (Evangellyfish, pp. 104-105).
Two Trees
“Just as Adam lost his bride through his disobedience at a tree . . . so the last Adam won His bride through His obedience at a tree” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 60).
Which More Than a Few Have Done
“She had lost her faith while still managing to hang on to all the platitudes” (Evangellyfish, p. 104).