1+ week, 2+ day ago  (536+ words) Yesterday we posted about a Sunday morning Bible class led by our vacancy pastor, seminary professor Joel Biermann, that unlocked for me an important text about vocation. In the ensuring discussion, we got into an aspect of vocation that I…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1149+ words) At first, the clones seemed fine. They survived. They reproduced. They looked more or less normal. But as the generations continued, the copies became unstable. Genetic mutations stacked up. The further they got from the original, the more fragile and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (633+ words) A friend of mine asked me this question the other day: is complementarianism misogyny? Or put another way: does restricting women's roles in the church and home show an inherent hatred of women? Complementarians would say no. Their view that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (738+ words) The bottom line for the tradwife: she may be the major breadwinner and the more productive member of the household, but she owns nothing. The'whole idea springs from what is claimed to be a biblical stance that the man is…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (564+ words) Born & reared in Seattle, WA. , Kermit lived 38 years in metro Houston, now in Scottsdale, AZ. He graduated from University of Houston w/ BBA in 1963 and played on the PGA Tour full time from 1964-1982 and Senior/Champions Tour in 1991-2001. Kermit co-founded…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (263+ words) Timothy S. Goeglein has just published a book entitled What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family. I have reviewed it for Religion & Liberty Online." "I take the occasion to discuss what Christian conservatives used to emphasize, as…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (404+ words) We've all been there: the day-to-day routine with our partner falls into a pattern of conflict, and fighting seems inevitable. When the central relationship in our lives feels fraught and a fight looms around every corner, our emotional health and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1013+ words) On Maundy Thursday, commemorating Christ's institution of the sacrament of His body and blood, it's good to contemplate what's at stake. This is evident in a controversy at the Vatican." "In 2016, the late Pope Francis issued a "papal exhortation" on…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (446+ words) We met in 2004 at the Lyndon Diner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I had just come back from a tour with some friends, and there was a gathering with local bands. I was standing near the door, waiting for the back room…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1841+ words) Three weeks ago, we began this blog post series on Hard Conversations by acknowledging something many of us feel: it can be difficult to have conversations with people who think differently from us. This is also a sermon series at…...