Christians for Biblical Equality has issued a call for papers for their Winter 2006 issue of Mutuality. The theme for this issue will be “worship and equality.” They announce that they “still need authors” for the following topics:
The role of spirituals and freedom songs in the long struggle for ethnic equality and justice in the [...]
Evangelicalism is roiling on two fronts these days — the “worship wars” and the “gender wars.” These two controversies are connected, but that’s for other posts at this blog. For now, I wish to point out a fascinating thing: how an agenda within the “worship wars” is very tightly blended with an agenda in the [...]
FLUMMERY:
–noun, plural -mer-ies.
1. oatmeal or flour boiled with water until thick.
2. fruit custard or blancmange usually thickened with cornstarch.
3. any of various dishes made of flour, milk, eggs, sugar, etc.
4. complete nonsense; foolish humbug.
I’ve loved the word “flummery” ever since first encountering it in Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels. Wolfe usually applied the term to [...]
In recent correspondence on a couple of blogs and in private correspondence as well, I’ve had occasion to revisit a lie used by feminists (secular and religious) to prosecute their attacks on classical western patriarchy. Since the relevant refutations to this particular lie are close at hand, I post them here, and inaugurate a new [...]
Originally published online here we have a wonderful example of how egalitarian interpreters of the Bible mine Holy Writ for meanings never dreamed of in 2,000 years. It turns out that they are simply taking a page from cultural reconstructionists such as you find at Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage, otherwise known as “the toff’s bible.” [...]
Crossway Books has just released a new book by Wayne Grudem, entitled Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism? After looking it over quickly (I’m going to read parts of it very closely and offer commentary/analysis in later posts), I commend it to you for your use in challenging the egalitarians within your churches, associations, [...]
