Category: Miscellany
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Less “both sides” and more “universal problems”
Categories: MiscellanyA lot of dust has been kicked up in the wake of the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk. There’s been the rush to assign blame, examples of how our individual algorithms give us widely different perspectives on the same people and events, and the ever present struggle with how we think and talk about controversial…
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How I changed my mind on women’s ordination
Categories: MiscellanyIn April of 2005, during my sophomore year at Moody Bible Institute, I wrote a paper entitled: “Female Authority in the Church: a hermeneutical(sic) Look at 1 Timothy 2:11-12.” It was the first time I dug into passages in the New Testament about women in church leadership, and it was the formation of a position…
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10 Questions
Categories: MiscellanyA friend of mine, who has spent more than his fair share of time having to wrestle with the expectations we ought to have for church leadership (and what to do when leaders fail), posted ten questions he would ask of anyone who asipres to lead in a church. I found them to be pretty…