James Taranto and his side-kicks at the Wall Street Journal turn up some amazing stuff on the web. In “Best of the Web Today” for November 22, 2006, Taranto links to a Daily Mail photo feature extolling the technological advances that allow us now to see inside the wombs of animals, to observe miniature elephants, [...]
Entries from November 2006
November 24, 2006
Rise Up, O Men of God!
Some egalitarians remind me of parrots. Their stock of phrases were taught to them by Betty Friedan and Kate Millet 30 or 40 years ago, and their constant repetition is getting pretty stale. Never more so than when you find one of them railing against hymns that – by their lights – denigrate women.
Case in point: [...]
November 23, 2006
Breeding for God
This week the National Center for Health Statistics reported that out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year. As long as the link lasts, here’s an AP report published in the online edition of the Atlanta Constitution. What’s interesting is that this [...]
November 15, 2006
What to do about the bad husband?
We often get questions that go something like this one we recently received:
On pages 114-115 in section 2.2 [of your work Five Aspects of Woman] you talk about Christ suffering under human authority and you urge wives to submit to “bad husbands.” You ask that they “be patient with them by recognizing Christ’s authority over [...]
November 8, 2006
Flummeries Pious and Putrid
The scandal the broke out in Colorado Springs on Wednesday November 1 has generated many things, among them entire oceans of flummery (especially the kind noted in definition No. 4 here). There are two flamboyantly flummerious concoctions I’ve come across, egregious in the sheer concentration of pure humbug their creators have incorporated into their concoctions.
In [...]
November 7, 2006
By Women, For Women, and a howler
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has hit an almost homerun with their Fall 2006 issue of the Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (JBMW, Vol. XI, No. 2). Subtitled “By Women For Women,” this issue features the following articles, all by women:
“Women Against Public Blasphemy,” by Rebecca Jones
“The Womanliness of Deborah: Complementarian Principles from [...]
November 6, 2006
Richochet
The Wall Street online Opinion Journal, in its Best of the Web posting for November 6, references a story originally posted at Bloomberg.com , headlined Fourth Grader Suspended After Refusing to Answer Exam Question. Like a tree coasting past your window, it more or less shows you which way the wind is blowing. In this [...]
November 3, 2006
Jesus is My Boyfriend!
Read the following story and then decide whether you think it is straight news, or satire.
ANAHEIM — The latest Vineyard Music worship CD, “Intimacy, vol. 2,” has raced to the top of the Christian sales charts, but Wal-Mart is refusing to stock the album without slapping on a parental warning sticker. The ground-breaking — some [...]
November 2, 2006
Can Anything Good Come Out of Oz?
Which of the following comes to mind when you think of Oz (aka Australia)?
Something to confuse with Austria
The home country of Crocadile Dundee
The inspiration for a steakhouse franchise
Source of kangaroo and boomerang paraphranalia
Home of a cadre of female Southern Hemisphere complementarians
That last entry is probably not what you thought of, but now you can and [...]
November 2, 2006
Hope for the Future
Last night, my wife Barbara spent the evening with five female students of Five Aspects of Woman, led by the wife of a couple who minister with an international evangelism/discipleship organization on the campus of my (and my wife’s) alma mater. Four of them were single seniors on campus, one was a 30-something married next [...]
