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A Review of Rachel Held Evansโ€™ A Year of Biblical Womahood [excerpt]

Sarah J. Flashing

I donโ€™t believe this book is really about biblical womanhood, or biblical anything. YWB is a book about the Bible and how we read it. To fulfill her objective...

Young โ€œEvangelicalsโ€ and the Gospel of Doubt

Sarah J. Flashing

It is the right thing to do. Listening to the questions and doubts of those who are struggling with belief in God, the nature of scripture, doctrine or how...

Is Your Faith a Fraud?

Sarah J. Flashing

Part of the responsibility of ministry leaders is having an awareness of influences that have guided the minds of our culture and, therefore, the church. No church exists in...

When Doubt Becomes Skepticism

Sarah J. Flashing

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions By Rachel Held Evans (Zondervan Publishers, Grand Rapids, MI) 2010 Asking questions...

What Biblical Womanhood Is Not

Sarah J. Flashing

Most days I just donโ€™t want to go there. While I disagree with my friends on the egalitarian side of the gender role debate, I think they know I...

Putting On the New Self: An Introducton to Christian Ethics

Sarah J. Flashing

Currently I am working on a series of articles on Christian ethics with a focus on moral epistemology from, yes, a Reformed Van Tilian perspective. Would love to hear...

Til โ€˜Lack of Consciousnessโ€™ Do Us Part

Sarah J. Flashing

Last week, Pat Robertson told his viewers that he believes Alzheimerโ€™s disease to be a โ€œkind of death,โ€ a basis for the un-afflicted spouse to seek divorce and move...

The Moral of the Storyโ€ฆIs There One?

Sarah J. Flashing

โ€œChristianity isnโ€™t a list of rules, itโ€™s a relationshipโ€ is how the clichรฉ goes and Iโ€™ve never been very fond of it. While I agree that Christianity is about...

On Rejecting โ€œEvangelical Feminismโ€

Sarah J. Flashing

Our culture seems to be in a tug of war over who represents the truest form of feminism. The political landscape has no doubt opened up this can of...

All Truth is Godโ€™s Truth โ€“ So?

Sarah J. Flashing

The assertion that โ€œall truth is Godโ€™s truthโ€ obviously doesnโ€™t reflect a relativistic outlook on the existence or nature of truth. Those who express this sentiment truly do believe...

On Godโ€™s Terms: The Gospel and Radical Exclusion

Sarah J. Flashing

The greatest truth ever known to man is quite obviously the Good News of our salvation. The Lord Jesus came to be our sinless substitute, providing the necessary payment...

When an Oasis is Really a Mirage: Why are Evangelicals Ignoring the Pluralistic Agenda of a Denver Womenโ€™s Center?

Sarah J. Flashing

Women need to hear from other women. This is a truth impressed upon us through stories in scripture about women like Ruth & Naomi and Mary & Martha. In...

Redeeming the Miraculous

Sarah J. Flashing

Generally I donโ€™t write from the perspective of my personal experiences, at least to this degree, but based on events last Friday in suburban Chicago, I wanted to share...

An Indefensible Faith: Another Review of Love Wins

Sarah J. Flashing

There is no shortage of reviews on Rob Bellโ€™s recent book Love Wins, so I am almost apologetic for writing another. But it is because of my work in apologetics I find...

Longing for Lent and Liturgy

Sarah J. Flashing

The risk is mindless ritualism, but I canโ€™t help but wonder if the benefits are so much  more that the risk worth taking. Tโ€™is the season for many blog...