The Adulterer, Karl Barth
On this infamous anniversary, we must ask, how can someone speak good when doing evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Category: Asymmetry of Origin
The first couple was made differently, resulting in an asymmetry of giving rest and making secure. A man is a man in conquering a woman’s fears. A woman is a woman in being home to him.
Do Baby Girls Have More Cooties?
After my daughter’s birth, I asked a Hasidic mother of 7, “Why is a mother is ritually unclean for 1 week after she bears a son, but 2 weeks for a daughter?”
But Woman is the glory of Man…
My son is getting married this week. And my mind keeps going to 1Corinthians 11:7: “…he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.”
Competent to Care For (not Kill)
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood” recalls a time of competent manhood and its play with violence. How do the two go together?
Be Strong and Be a Man
David tells Solomon, “Be strong and be a man.” Is strength a particularly masculine quality? Does one need to be strong to be a man?
A Hobby Lobby Conversion
A mother bravely faces an inner conflict as she prepares for her daughter’s wedding. What does the struggle reveal?
She was Made from Him
The Apostle Paul helps us read the Genesis 2 story to learn masculinity and femininity. One was “made from” the other, the second great asymmetry of gender.
Soul Mates Find Out Too Late
Singles seeking a spouse by Soul Mate thinking sink. It is only a shadow of the Bible’s better way to date, via the deeper asymmetry of origin.
Christmas in the Book of Revelation I: The Paradigm of Gender
John’s vision of Christmas in Ch. 12 of Revelation gives us how history unfolds, through the archetypes of gender.
Note to My Younger Woman Self
I recently spoke with a woman who was bemoaning how men and women do not equally share child care. I remember worrying about that when I was in my twenties.