Entries from October 2007

October 25, 2007

Egalitarian Flummery No. 2

In the comments section of the previous blog (“Godly Men and the Manly God”) Sue challenges the idea that manliness is something women lack.  I thought her observations were worth highlighting, so I’ve promoted them to a separate blog.  Here’s how Sue put things:
Curiously, for over 2000 years the Bible said that woman was manly. [...]

October 24, 2007

Gender Wars and Worship Wars: a connection

 For some time now I have sensed a living and vital linkage between the “gender wars” and the “worship wars” within Broadly Evangelical American Protestantism (BEAP).  These controversies not only intersect, they seem to reinforce one another.  The problem has been to figure out how and why.  It’s puzzlement.  I suspect many factors are at [...]

October 23, 2007

Godly Men and the Manly God

The blog entitled Dangerous Book for Men has gotten some attention from some of my readers out there in internet-land.  In one case, questions posted in that blog had to be passed by for a bit, as I was buried in prior commitments.  Now I wish to bring Bethany’s questions to the front page, [...]

October 4, 2007

Like a Horse Smelling the Barn

Yes, the title of this blog and the photo below it are mixing metaphors.  Maybe.  When one is like a horse that smells the barn, one’s apt to do things like you see in the photo.  Fortunately, I avoided mimicking the photo.  Just barely.  But, I did learn how a horse feels when he smells [...]