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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The other day I read a post by a prominent blogger that left me saddened and concerned. It reflected what I have come to see in recent months as a pervasive problem in segments of the church. I’m not linking to the post because I have no quibbles with this blogger. I am simply profoundly sad for this person and many others who were agreeing with the post. The problem? Wallowing in sin. No,...
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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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One of my goals is to gradually produce a page of excellent resources for those studying all issues related to women in the church. This evening I added a number of new articles and links on my Women in the Church Resources page. All of the new links are clearly marked with today’s date. Some of them are more introductory and some are pretty meaty. If you are ever looking for a specific...
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And neither are you. Does that statement bother you? A few weeks ago I ran across an older article from Christianity Today entitled The Myth of the Perfect Parent: Why the best parenting techniques don’t produce Christian children. It’s been on the back burner as we’ve gone through a couple of different viruses and a trip out of town. But Amy writing Like junior high, we hope...
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Becky at Created to be His has an excellent post on the oft-maligned Bathsheba. She makes a great point that authors of books about modesty often use her as an example of all the terrible things that can happen when a woman fails to remain modest. And yet is that really the case? From Blame it on Bathsheba: Bathsheba is often portrayed as an adulteress whose immodesty, either naive or seductive...
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