The Church Complicit: Review of Jesus & Gender by Fitzpatrick & Schumacher
While it has its good points, this book is typical of the church’s and the culture’s current minimization of gender in relationship.
PeopleName: Adam
Why You Need the Pactum Salutis in Your Life
The doctrine teaches that for us sinners to be saved, the trinitarian Persons entered into a pact with each Other in eternity about how to do it.
The Fallen Gaze
The fruit was delicious, but it was a different taste than she had tasted before, as if something was mixed in, something her body didn’t know what to make of.
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.
Finding a Firstborn (new book excerpt)
This Dating-with-Discernment book excerpt advises women daters: you want a man in whom you can invest authority. I.e., you want a guy who is able to take charge for you. Those last 2 words are important.
He Called Them Two By Two
Recent headlines proclaim medical breakthroughs which will enable lesbian couples to bear children together. The headlines make for a sensational news cycle, but are misleading in claiming that the sexually dimorphic (that is, needing both male and female) reproductive process has been circumvented.
Of the Same Substance as Adam
The simple verses of Genesis 2, explaining how women were made in the image of God, proclaim vital truths about who we are. Do you realize what a gift you are in being made as a woman or a man?
Trinitarian Delight
Want to understand the Trinity of God more deeply and clearly? British Trinitarian Theologian, Michael Reeves is that most wonderful of all things, a theologian with a sense of humor. His book brings a cheerful clarity and an appreciation of how God’s internal relationships can inform and inspire our own.
He Had to Come by a Woman and Not by a Man
This Christmas, ask yourself this: Why a woman and not a man? Why not have Christ come through a man with the wonder of it being that it was done without a woman? I mean, so long as God is doing a miracle, he could certainly have done it the other way.