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A Review of Rachel Held Evansโ A Year of Biblical Womahood [excerpt]
I donโt 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 โEvangelicalsโ and the Gospel of Doubt
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?
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
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
Most days I just donโt 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
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 โLack of Consciousnessโ Do Us Part
Last week, Pat Robertson told his viewers that he believes Alzheimerโs disease to be a โkind of death,โ a basis for the un-afflicted spouse to seek divorce and move...
The Moral of the StoryโฆIs There One?
โChristianity isnโt a list of rules, itโs a relationshipโ is how the clichรฉ goes and Iโve never been very fond of it. While I agree that Christianity is about...
On Rejecting โEvangelical Feminismโ
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 Godโs Truth โ So?
The assertion that โall truth is Godโs truthโ obviously doesnโt reflect a relativistic outlook on the existence or nature of truth. Those who express this sentiment truly do believe...
On Godโs Terms: The Gospel and Radical Exclusion
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 Womenโs Center?
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
Generally I donโt 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
There is no shortage of reviews on Rob Bellโs 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
The risk is mindless ritualism, but I canโt help but wonder if the benefits are so much more that the risk worth taking. Tโis the season for many blog...