Why I'm pushing back against condemning public school
I do want to push back a bit against the broad strokes condemnation of public school parents.
I do want to push back a bit against the broad strokes condemnation of public school parents.
Peacemakers, ironically, have to make a lot of noise.
No-fault divorce didn’t create a new problem as much as it revealed a pre-existing one. Let’s have that conversation.
It wouldn’t do much good to march up to an obese person and scream, “Repent, glutton! Turn or burn!” or hold up picket signs reading “God hates fat people.” Unfortunately, that’s basically what too many in the Church have done to gay people, and it’s awful.
Your first priority is to make sure you’re safe, but once you are, you are not spiritually required to enable sin. This is easy theology to defend, but we simply don’t see enough of the Elisabeth Elliot diehards preaching it. The question is why.
In a broken, porn-sick world where sexual trauma is the rule, not the exception, it is imperative for churches that care to thoroughly understand the nature and power dynamics of sexual abuse.
I think I was on my fourth copy of the popular marriage book Love and Respect before I finally figured out why I hated it so much.
In many ways, this was the beginning of my deconstruction journey. If everything I believed up until this point about how God operated was wrong, what else was I missing?
The answer to feminist overreach is not patriarchal oppression. The answer to both extremes is the freedom that is found in Christ. There was no gender hierarchy in Eden, and there will be no gender hierarchy in Heaven.
Let brave, bold, impassioned people of both sexes arise to do God’s work wherever He calls them to do it and without the confines of performative stereotypes that aren’t even biblical to begin with.