GNAP (Generic North American Protestantism) Dreams Busted: The “Biblical Family” Yearning for the Good Ol’ Days Requires Massive Doses of Historical Revisionism

Some of Tulip Girl’s observations [in the comments on this TW thread] gleaned from living abroad as missionaries,
 “One of the things the the Lord did in my life during our time in Ukraine was help point out in my own heart and life how many of my OWN ideas were not from the Bible, as I thought they were–but were [...]

Root Issues: Authority Structures We Like Best (Fluid vs. Heirarchal, etc) and Their Influence in the Way We Interpret Scripture (Gender Issues, Church Government, Relationships…)

Resonate writer, Len Hjalmarson, recently mused on a topic of interest to me.  His post, Evolution of Heirarchy, discusses how factors like access to technology and information are forcing us to change the way we think of authority structures. No longer do we live in a world where only “the leader” knows what to do—-now [...]

Easter Sunday: Shoot, Even the BAD Christians Go to Church!

I guess that means we’re worse than bad?  But it was still really nice staying home.  We sang some songs, in a casual way, talked a little bit, in a casual way, and ate a lot of candy eggs, in a casual way.  (It’s hard not to be casual when you have a two year old [...]

Ruminating on Our Enemy the State: America the Adolescent?

With regards to the topic of discussion this month over at RTD (where I also put up this same post), Lydia commented,
“…[A]ll the bad that can be said about corps. can be said about the gov. Refer to “Our Enemy, the State,” by Albert Knock for an exposition on this.”
Salixc provided links to the book [...]

Our Enemy the State (in Bile Green and Size 9 Font)

The labored sounds of a printer are to the East of me. That would be, “Our Enemy, the State” sludging itself out, page by page. The text is in a lovely green color, since the black ink cartridge ran out yesterday (likely having something to do with multiple copies of Woody and Buzz [...]

Hurry! Testosterone Podcast — FASCINATING!

It’s only available for free for a limited time (like, um, now.  It was last week’s free podcast, so I have no idea how long it will be available, other than “not for much longer”), so download this one quickly. If you are at all interested in gender studies, DO NOT MISS THIS. [...]

Is Loving Yahweh Enough, (or Do I Have to Love Him the Way They Say I Do)?

This is an example of the kind of preaching/teaching that makes me want to throw up.   And laugh.  Loudly. 
 
But the way I found that funny little clip (Real men “piss against the wall,” and the problem with America is that men aren’t pissing from an upright position anymore!  Sheesh, why aren’t people reading the KJV [...]

The Former “Biblical Patriarchalist” Muses on Gender Roles and Christ…

This was an excellent post (The Effect of Biblical Womanhood on a Woman’s Self-Image), albeit a few years old, from the Happy Feminist. I came from the world Crystal writes about (here, the comments being very enlightening) and I know well the way one thinks within it.
It is fair to say that these women, on the one hand, [...]

Voting Based on Abortion Stance

These are thoughts penned in response to those who vote based on abortion policies alone (as I once did), feeling that to cast a vote in any other direction would be participating in the death of unborn babies:

When the Nazi’s forced all the Jews to live and starve in the ghetto’s, it was BAD. [...]

Musings on Authority and the Weak and Righteous Rebellions (against “Crying it Out,” and Beyond)

I once believed that Authority is a major crux upon which the  Christian either stands or falls.  Satan was the first to rebel against authority, therefore rebellion against authority was the “original sin,” so to speak, of the universe.   That rebellion was not something I wanted to participate in.   
In this system, God was believed to set [...]