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Comments Russell Moore is concerned that too many evangelical marriages are complementarian in name only. The dean of the School of Theology and senior vice president for academic administration at Southern Baptist Seminary recently said this at the Together for the Gospel Conference is Louisville, Kentucky: “What I fear is that we have many people in evangelicalism who can check off ‘complementarian’ on a box but who really aren’t living out complementarian lives. S... read moreA small, strange victory for vaginas everywhere...
Comments Yes, this t-shirt actually exists. No, I didn't make it. Some women run for public office. Others devote their lives to activism on behalf of their sex. Still others launch non-profit organizations that help lift women and their communities out of poverty. Me? I use the anatomically correct term to describe the female anatomy. (Be the change!) That’s right. The word “vagina” is back in the book. When I first mentioned that I’d been as... read moreIn praise of my unspectacular, pre-Pinterest wedding
Comments Once upon a time, before “friend” was a verb, Liz Lemon was a saint, and mustaches on sticks were a thing, we girls had to plan our weddings without Pinterest. I know, right? How we managed to coordinate our colors and pick out our bridesmaid’s gifts without the illegal distribution of online images is simply beyond me. And yet somehow we did it—blissfully unaware of how totally lame our wedding albums would look a mere eight years later when they fail... read moreInformation on my book cover, Vaginagate, and other pressing matters
Comments Well, we’ve finally settled on a cover for my new book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master: I like it...although I’m a wee bit concerned about the weight of my post-book body crushing that sweet little house and reducing it to a pile of rubble. A year of Jewish holidays takes a while to burn off, people. Amazon hasn’t updated the new image yet, but the good news... read moreWomen of the Passion
Comments David O'Connell As requested, links to each of last week’s posts on the women of the Passion: Part 1: The Woman at Bethany Anoints Jesus “We cannot know for sure whether the woman who anointed Jesus saw her actions as a prelude to her teacher’s upcoming death and burial. I suspect she knew instinctively, the way that women know these things, that a man who dines at a leper’s house, who allows a woman to touch him with her hair, who rebukes Pharisees and befriends... read moreWomen of the Passion, Part 4: Mary Magdalene, Apostle to the Apostles
Comments When referring to the earliest followers of Jesus, the Gospel writers often speak of two groups of disciples: the Twelve and the Women. The Twelve refer to the twelve Jewish men chosen by Jesus to be his closest companions and first apostles, symbolic of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Women refer to an unspecified number of female disciples who also followed Jesus, welcoming him into their homes, financing his ministry, and often teaching the Twelve through their acts of faithfulness and love.... read moreWomen of the Passion, Part 3: The Women Wait
Comments When referring to the earliest followers of Jesus, the Gospel writers often speak of two groups of disciples: the Twelve and the Women. The Twelve refer to the twelve Jewish men chosen by Jesus to be his closest companions and first apostles, symbolic of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Women refer to an unspecified number of female disciples who also followed Jesus, welcoming him into their homes, financing his ministry, and often teaching the Twelve through their acts of faithfulness and love.... read moreWomen of the Passion, Part 2: Mary’s Heart is Pierced (Again)
Comments When referring to the earliest followers of Jesus, the Gospel writers often speak of two groups of disciples: the Twelve and the Women. The Twelve refer to the twelve Jewish men chosen by Jesus to be his closest companions and first apostles, symbolic of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Women refer to an unspecified number of female disciples who also followed Jesus, welcoming him into their homes, financing his ministry, and often teaching the Twelve through their acts of faithfulness and love.... read moreWomen of valor at Truett Seminary
Comments It seems I caused a bit of a stir over at Baylor University on Monday with a chapel talk about my year of biblical womanhood. At the end of the program, I gave one of my first public readings from the new book, (due out in September), so if you’re interested, you can watch the entire chapel service here. Later this week, I’ll be speaking at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena and Missiongathering Church and Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. (Check out the... read moreAt Baylor University today...
Comments This morning, I’ll be sharing some pictures and stories from my year of biblical womanhood with the students at Baylor University. I believe you can watch a live stream from 9:05 until 12 p.m. (CT) here. Services are at 9:05, 10:10, and 11:15 (CT). Later this week, I'll be headed to California to speak at Fuller Seminary, Missiongathering Church, and Point Loma Nazarene University. (Check out my schedule.) Tomorrow we’ll return to your discussion of Christian Smith... read moreYes, Christianity has a masculine feel. But maybe that should change...
Comments A couple of posts caught my eye today: Lindsey Hankins, a PhD student and expert on the gendered rhetoric of martyrdom, wrote an excellent piece for Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog in which she notes that John Piper has “stepped squarely into an age-old thread of Christian thought.” (Here she shares some classic quotes from Aristotle, Chrysostom, and Tertullian that cast women as ontologically inferior to men) “...This notion of masculinity as equal ... read more“God Is Not Ashamed” – Our Brothers Speak Out
Comments When I challenged men to respond to John Piper’s claim that “God has given Christianity a masculine feel” with posts that celebrate femininity and affirm women in the Church, I never expected this. Within a few days, we received over 150 contributions. Responses came from young and old, clergy and laypeople, husbands and fathers and singles, well-known authors and first-time bloggers. We received submissions from the U.S., Canada, Britain, India, South Africa, Aus... read moreLet’s plant some seeds together...
Comments My friend Kathy Escobar has contributed some beautiful and challenging thoughts to our conversation about John Piper's call for a “masculine Christianity.” “Change in ‘the church’ is coming,” she writes, “a holy stirring is happening and many people are starting to call it for what it is–oppression, sexism, and a fear-based theology that perpetuates injustice. However, it has become so innate that merely trying to shake it out of our s... read moreThank You, Brothers! (Leave your links here)
Comments So my call for guys to write blog posts that honor women and celebrate the feminine images of God in Scripture has been absolutely overwhelming. Some favorites so far: Landon Whitsitt with “Mama’s Boy: Reflections on a Masculine Christianity” JR Daniel Kirk with “Imaging the Biblical God” Paul Anthony with “The Radical Femininity of Christ” Frank Viola with “God’s View of a Woman” ...And that’s just a small... read moreJohn Piper wants a “masculine Christianity.” What do you think?
Comments **Important Update: Guys, please leave links to your posts here instead.** “God has chosen to liken Himself to a female and we are the fruit of His womb.” – John Calvin On Tuesday, at the annual Desiring God pastors conference, popular evangelical pastor John Piper spoke on the importance of maintaining what he calls a “masculine Christianity,” arguing that “God has given Christianity a masculine feel.” “God r... read moreAsk Dan and Rachel – Gender Roles, Kettle Corn, and Blogging Blues
Comments We were only able to answer a few of your questions in the video, so I’ve gone back through the comments after yesterday’s post to respond to the questions we don’t tackle here. (Find out which one stumped us both!) Check out Dan's Web series: Learning with LawrenceCheck out Dan's Web startup: Wylio ... read moreThe Church has been “effeminized” for a long time...
Comments Despite the fact that men outnumbered women in the Greco-Roman world, women, especially widows, joined the early church in droves. In the second century, the pagan Celsus criticized Christianity, saying it was a religion for “the foolish, dishonorable, and stupid...and only slaves, women, and little children.” Records show that in 253, the Roman church included over 1500 widows, and by the fourth century, the church in Antioch included 3,000 widows and virgins. Women hav... read moreAsk Dan and Rachel...
Comments It’s been over a year since we did the last “Ask Dan and Rachel” video post. Now that my year of biblical womanhood is over, I thought you might have some questions for us—about the project, about our marriage, about our strange, self-employed life in East Tennessee. So leave your questions below, and be sure to use the “like” feature to indicate which questions you most want answered. If your question is specifically for Dan, or specifically for me, pl... read moreEshet Chayil! Women of valor climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to help stop human trafficking
Comments “A woman of valor, who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.” – Proverbs 31:10 Today, on National Trafficking Awareness Day, a valorous group of 40 women from across the globe will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro as part of the Freedom Climb. “Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro is symbolic of the huge climb to freedom faced daily by millions of enslaved women and children worldwide,” the Freedom Climb Web site states. Climbers will be raising awareness, prayers, and fina... read moreEsther and Vashti: The Real Story
Comments When I was a kid, I imagined Esther to be something of a beauty pageant contestant. I figured that, in addition to her twelve months of beautification, she must have performed a talent and answered questions from a glass bowl before winning the heart of a love-struck King Xerxes. I never learned in Sunday School that Esther, whose Jewish name was Hadassah, was forced, along with perhaps thousands of virgin girls from Susa, into King Xerxes harem. Or that the king had banished his first ... read moreAnother kind of "real marriage"
Comments I loved this post from Sarah at Emerging Mummy so much, I simply had to share an excerpt: "So this is what we do, we make each other better at being ourselves, better at being like Jesus, we slow-dance, my head on your heart, your breath in my hair, your hands on my wider-than-they-used-to-be hips, our feet slower perhaps because we're moving together. Sometimes the questions people ask or judgments they imply can make us chuckle, don't they, my darling? Well, who is in charge her... read more"...your daughters will prophesy"
Comments “Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. - Jesus, Matthew 10:41 Josiah became king of Israel when he was just eight years old. Described as Israel’s last good king, he reigned for thirty-one years during a final period of peace before the Babylonian exile. About halfway through his reign, Josiah learns that the long-lost Book of ... read moreWhat Feminism Is Not...
Comments So yesterday I wrote a post intended to be a funny and self-critical commentary on the ambiguous nature of feminism, but which turned out to be a bit controversial. Entitled “13 Things That Make Me a Lousy Feminist,” the post was a companion piece to my “13 Things That Make Me a Lousy Evangelical” and “13 Things That Make Me a Lousy Progressive,” and was based on a somewhat frustrating experience I recently had at a progressive Christian conference where... read more13 Things that Make Me a Lousy Feminist
Comments I’ve shared 13 things that make me a lousy evangelical and 13 things that make me a lousy progressive. Lately, having been dubbed a “dangerous feminist” by some of my more conservative brothers and sisters in the Church, I’ve been pondering all the things that make me lousy feminist. Let me know if you identify with any of these: 1. I like white males so much I married one. 2. I’ve never read The Handmaid’s Tale. (I know, I know. It’... read moreShowing 1 - 25 of 70 Articles | Page 1 of 3
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