Hi friends, It’s been a few days since that vile video from John MacArthur came out. I have chosen not to say much about it. I hope that my silence did not give anyone the wrong idea. I certainly was not unaware, or ignorant of his hateful speech. His words were wrong and cruel, and…
Some of you know, I’ve been taking classes at Fuller Seminary. I’m taking one class a quarter, so it’s slow going. But I’m able to keep up with the course work and still do some of the other things I need to do, like drive two teenagers around every afternoon when they get home from…
This summer I’m taking a Biblical Interpretation class. It’s been fantastic. Two weeks ago, the assignment had to do with the book of Mark and the many times the author wrote about Jesus instructing his disciples to cross over to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. They begin in Mark 4:35 “On that…
Recently, the infamous purity culture movement has been all over the internet and in book stores. Nadia Bolz-Weber released a book called Shameless, which I read. Katelyn Beaty responded in a New York Times article. In it she asks a question that I too have been pondering for several years, “What does Jesus think?” Joshua…
There is this story in Genesis 38 about a young girl named Tamar. For the sake of clarity, there are two narratives in scripture about a girl named Tamar, the one in Genesis is the first narrative. After the sons of Jacob sell their brother Joseph into slavery, the brothers went back and began to…
For the past couple of months I’ve been in a blog series advocating for women in church leadership. We’ve covered biblical interpretation, we’ve talked about Deborah, I wrote on I Timothy 2:8-15, which is a very complicated passage of scripture, and I’ve shared personal stories. This week, I’d like us to consider not just the…
There are two major camps in Evangelical Christianity right now when it comes to the way women are treated. Complementarians believe men and women are equal before God and humanity, but because of gender must adhere to complementary roles, in order to uphold the image of God on this planet. Egalitarians believe men and women…
I saw this movie a long time ago called, Yentl. Barbara Streisand plays this Orthodox Jewish girl from Poland who wanted to learn and study the Talmud. But according to the rules of her Jewish community she wasn’t allowed to learn the Talmud because she was a girl. Her Rabbi father taught her against the…
When I was a young girl, I went to a loving church that taught me the Bible. We had hymn-sings, and Sunday afternoon pot-lucks, we had Christian pageants and my mom sang in a quartet. We prayed for the sick and loved one another. It was a small church, with only one pastor, and his…
