This post is in answer to the post published on the Scroll on May 5th and entitled “NO DEFENCE NEEDED!” Hannah Swithinbank has a PhD in ancient history, a diploma in professional writing, and an inherited tendency to read anything that comes to hand, including the back of the cereal box at breakfast. She is [...]
Why I Can No Longer Defend the Ministry of Women in the Church Steve Holmes is a Baptist minister, currently teaching theology at St Mary’s College, St Andrews, Scotland. He blogs about theology and culture from an Evangelical perspective at Shored Fragments. The following column is posted with permission from his blog. I have defended the ministry of [...]
I would suggest that most, if not all, women would have been the subject of ridicule in some form or other simply because of their gender. Sometimes it is felt even without words – the scorn, belittling behaviour and condescension. Then of course we know of the way many men talk of their mothers, wives, [...]
The blogosphere is buzzing with backlash about recent articles that are advocating for “young marriage.” Apparently, the millennials (18-29 yr olds), my generation, have a low marriage rate at 21 percent in the U.S., compared to other generations during this age range. I posed a question on my Facebook status to my unmarried or later-married [...]
This photo is of an apple…….no question about that. Now it’s cut we can see inside but before then we had no idea what was inside. So it is with people…..we can assume things without knowing ‘what’s inside’. There’s an old saying ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, and yet it happens all the [...]
There are a number of ways that godly faith in the God who is GOD, the REAL Messiah and the ONLY HOLY Spirit can get skewed is when humans step in to contain and control. I believe that what I’m going to say needs to be said and spread. I’d like to see it defined [...]
The new issue of Mutuality, themed “Rape and Sexual Violence,” is hot off the press. It includes the following piece by Christian blogger Luke Harms (lukelivingthetension.blogspot.com). Harms critiques what he sees as a culture of rape present in the church, which holds that women are responsible for the sexual violence committed against them. We invite [...]
