Category: Gender
A Year of Biblical Womanhood: A(nother) Review
Editor’s note: My friend Jake Meador wrote this right around the same time I wrote my thoughts. We don’t often post multiple entries on books, but Jake’s thoughts are worth considering and well stated. –MLA There are two common literary...
The Christian Post and Sojourners
Apologies for returning to this theme yet again, but this is what happens when discussions occur and I have words to say. At any rate, The Christian Post took a gander at Mere-O today and provided a reasonably accurate overview...
Sojourners and the Controversy that Will Not Go Away
Sojourners, the leading organization of the evangelical left, can’t seem to escape the controversy that erupted in March when it rejected an advertisement from Believe out Loud, an organization trying to “significantly increase the number of local churches and denominations...
One more on Challies/Evans-Gate
The first go-around was here. Now Tim Ricchuiti has chimed in with some smart thoughts: Zoom out a bit further: why would the husband have say in how his wife presents herself? Typically, we think of our “rights” (that is,...
An Imperfect Beauty
Tim Challies: Does a woman need to remain beautiful to her husband? Yes, she does! But this does not mean that she needs to remain beautiful in the way society understands beauty. She does not need to mimic the Hollywood...
Gender and the Body – How did we get here?
One of my old professors was fond of saying that in his class we take the first several weeks to chuck a whole bunch of balls in the air and we then spend the rest of the semester learning to...
Gender, the home, and how we define “work”
Cross posted at Notes from a Small Place. This post is part of an ongoing series of posts I’m doing regarding issues related to the body, gender, sexuality, and self identity. It will be going online later this week at...
The Incarnation and Male/Female Mutuality
One of the distinctive aspects of the Theology of the Body is its beautiful expression of the mutual relations of men and women, a mutuality that originates in and is best expressed by a sexual act which is constituted by...
Jesus is a Warrior, but not a Cagefighter
Son of God. Prince of Peace. Son of Man. Cagefighter? While the first three masculine titles given to our Lord Jesus are biblical and sufficient enough to express the wonder of Jesus, the last title seems to be ever-more increasingly...
Susan Sontag on Beauty and Gender
Today as I set-up shop in a line at the Los Angeles DMV I happened to read an incisive essay published in Vogue forty years ago. The article was written by Susan Sontag, and my profit from it proves that...