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The true seduction in the gospel
Reading the story of Salome is an opportunity for us to uncover the truth that we’d rather keep hidden: about power and control.
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Paul As An Ally – Why His Letter To The Romans Is About More Than Sexuality
or Why Paul is Anti-Anti-Gay You find yourself stuck in a conversation you don’t want to be in. You hear some pretty outrageous things about GOD and the Bible and homosexuality and it is upsetting. You’ve already talked about love and how Jesus works with people and doesn’t care about that stuff, but still they…
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Is the church’s message really “we don’t love you”?
For us, the ultimate example of marriage is found in Romeo and Juliet, not Genesis. It comes from true, burning desire to not only have sex with a person, but to be with a person, commit to that person, sit alongside that person every single day. To partner and respect and give and share and live a life…
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Sex as Biblical Marriage
Reading Genesis again for our Bible study, I have found this nuance with regards to how the writers use the concept of marriage quite interesting: having sex with someone makes you married. To unpack what this means, we ought to step back from our 21st Century “culture war” arguments about what marriage means or who…
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When Pants Don’t Fit, Quit Wearing Them
We all hate when our pants don’t fit. My wife put my favorite jeans in the dryer and now I have to lose a couple of pounds to get them back on. Thankfully, these aren’t jeans I’ve had forever. I’m not trying to put on any pants I wore in high school, trying to prove…
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For Pete’s Sake, Let Them Nurse!
I’m not sure why we even call nursing in public “controversial” since it is so very normal. Yet, we still think that the issue is complicated, just ask these Moms feeding their kids (gasp!) in uniform. Oh, the horror! We all know the root is about sex and sexualization of the female body. Which means…
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Restore the “Vagina”!
Restore the “Vagina”!. Rachel Held Evans can’t write “vagina”? Oh! She can write it, but Thomas Nelson won’t publish it. Wait a second. Why not? Oh! Because some Christians might be offended by it. Wait a second. Why? I should have known. The human body is freeky and gross. That sort of makes sense. It’s…
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Roman Catholic Bishops Out of Control
And especially not on contraception. Ever since Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church’s senseless ban on birth control in 1968, few doctrines have been as vilified, ridiculed and outright ignored by Catholics – evidenced by a recent study showing that 98% of American Catholic women have used some form of contraception. It’s hard to believe,…