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A Review of Rachel Held Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womahood [excerpt]
I don’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 “Evangelicals” 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 don’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
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 ‘Lack of Consciousness’ Do Us Part
Last week, Pat Robertson told his viewers that he believes Alzheimer’s disease to be a “kind of death,” a basis for the un-afflicted spouse to seek divorce and move...
The Moral of the Story…Is There One?
“Christianity isn’t a list of rules, it’s a relationship” is how the cliché goes and I’ve never been very fond of it. While I agree that Christianity is about...
On Rejecting “Evangelical Feminism”
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 God’s Truth – So?
The assertion that “all truth is God’s truth” obviously doesn’t reflect a relativistic outlook on the existence or nature of truth. Those who express this sentiment truly do believe...
On God’s 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 Women’s 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 don’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
There is no shortage of reviews on Rob Bell’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
The risk is mindless ritualism, but I can’t help but wonder if the benefits are so much more that the risk worth taking. T’is the season for many blog...
