Living, Learning & Always Writing
I’ve been collecting many links related to these topics and have decided to place them in their own post. I know I will never have time to write about each of them so here is a little blurb with each link. The Truth about “Effeminate Worship” is a great read in which the author picks apart some recent posts by Douglas Wilson. Don’t miss the part about pink being for boys...
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I recently left a comment on another blog that I tend not to read blogs written by younger women. There are exceptions, to be sure, but most of my blog reading is comprised of women who are closer to my own age, give or take several years. A lot of it has to do with the writing style and focus. You know. Everything is messy. If there is one word that has become overused, I think it is...
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Found this floating around the internet. It draws some brilliant parallels with some of the inane reasons given for why women shouldn’t lead in the church. I looked for an author, but couldn’t find one. If anyone knows who wrote it, please let me know! 10. A man’s place is in the army. 9. The pastoral duties of men who have children might distract them from the responsibility of...
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Lately David and I have been discussing a few major themes related to the issue of women in the church. I love how God will deliver to me just the right article or book to tie together some of those topics. Here are some of the things I’ve been reading lately that I have found very encouraging and helpful. I will be adding these to my Women in the Church Resources page, but I think I want...
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Yesterday I turned 45. I’ve lived a lot of life and experienced quite a bit in those 45 years. When I said in a recent post (Macho men and dudes are the key to the future of the church) that I believed we were going to see a person’s views on the roles of men and women in the church become a measuring stick for being a true believer, I think some who read here might have been...
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I’ve been splitting my mental energy between March Madness and sorting through the reading I’ve been doing on the church. If you are a newer reader you might not be totally aware of my love of college basketball. It is the only sport I follow. I follow MSU football, but I don’t follow college football. I follow the Detroit Tigers, but I don’t follow MLB. I follow college...
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I mentioned in a comment on my previous post that I had another story to link. This story comes from the site Resignation of Eve which is also the name of the book written by Jim Henderson. (I haven’t read it.) The post Oops…700 Club Reporter is Wrong Gender for Church Service includes a real life story shared by Kathy Chiero, one of the women featured in the book. She writes: My...
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I recently celebrated my seventh blogging anniversary and, like most of them, it passed without any mention because I never think about it until well after the fact. While cleaning out my old site as I prepare to take it down, I reflected on the vast number of people I’ve come into contact with over the past seven years. There are some who stopped by my site once, some who read for years...
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This week I received an invitation to write on a website dedicated to Christian egalitarian marriage. David and I have always had an egalitarian marriage except for a brief, depressing foray into a patriarchal period. But even though we’ve almost always had an egalitarian marriage, we never publicly called ourselves egalitarian in any way, shape or form until recently. In reflecting on why...
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Where to even begin? If you haven’t heard, John Piper made some comments last week about the masculinity of the church that has set off a firestorm online. Many people are deeply concerned and offended by some of his statements. (Piper is the same pastor who believes a wife should stay with an abusive husband “for a season.”) The remarks were in God Gave Christianity a...
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Jon Zens has written The Body with One Part? in response to John Piper’s explanation of why women are not allowed to read Scripture or pray in the worship service at his church. In part Piper says: My reason is because—not that others have to see it this way—I view that moment and that place in the worship service as one of pastoral authority. The pulpit stands there symbolizing the...
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Okay, here are three must reads. Every one of them is an absolute gem as are the discussions that follow. Purity balls, Christian princess syndrome, and “mom” haircuts: evangelicalism’s mixed messages for women from thatmom.com (This is really good stuff! The story about Driscoll’s wife cutting her hair is appalling. But this is the same man who has publicly said he...
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