The New Testament Pronatalism
The Mifepristone Abortion Pill reveals a culture running contrary the New Testament’s exaltation of childbearing, through which salvation continues to unfold.
Category: Intergendered Fruitfulness
Fruitfulness proceeding from intimacy with the other.
The Forgotten Purpose
A Prime Purpose God created gender for intimacy, to bring people together. He also created it for fruitfulness, to make more God-imaging life. As teacher Christopher West reminds us, the root of the word itself is about generation. Quoting from his book: “The root “gen” from which we get words like generous, generate, genesis, genetics, genealogy, progeny, gender, and genitals—means …
What Married Life is About
The day I began to realize how pervasive the cultural disdain for bearing and raising children had become in the American church.
News from 14th Century Sienna: Life-Inspired Painting
Currently, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition entitled, Sienna: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350. Mary K. and I had the opportunity to visit and wonder at this picture of transformation. Brought together for the first time, the work of three artists of Sienna, Italy, shows the moment when Western painting evolved to represent naturalistic detail. …
The two-in-oneness of husband and wife expands with a child into a three-in-oneness
A long Echoing Voice The Dutch theologian, Herman Bavinck, has been called the most important theologian of the twentieth century. My son and daughter in law named their dog after him, so there’s that. If you know the name, you probably associate it with his four volume Reformed Dogmatics, happily translated into English just in 2009. He was a …
Birthing Against the Tide
My daughter and son-in-law are having a baby in February. In a culture that demeans the value of childbearing, I admired their response.
Why Not Threesomes?
If gender comes from being made in God’s image, and we as men and women in relationship are an analogy of the hidden relations of Trinity of Persons in the One God, then why are there only two genders?