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Called Aside By God and Set Free By the Truth

This was a guest post for the Women in Ministry Series at In a Mirror Dimly in 2012. That website is now mothballed, but I found my post in the internet archives. I’m sharing it here. As I walked out into the cool autumn air, I felt the familiar combination of elation and exhaustion. I …

The Potential Witness of Christian Egalitarianism to the World

I’ve been participating in a discussion at The Gospel Coalition on Why Is TCG Complementarian? There is a video and post that generated a good deal of discussion and some truly excellent comments. I tried to comment anonymously and used a fake name (Sarah Ida Shaw, my sorority’s founder – LOL!), but my avatar picture …

Different Scenarios, Same Problem – Taking Our Eyes off Jesus

I’ve been following several stories this past week and trying to take it all in. There was the Chick-fil-a flap. (You can read my comments about it here and here and here.) There was the removal of a prominent Baptist Fundamentalist pastor in Indiana (here and here). (If you want to understand why some women …

Reformed North American Pastors are Not the Center of the Universe or the Church

Much food for thought in “Gender, race and the Pentecost: God has moved on” (updated: now gone) by Pastor Jonathan Martin. It was written in response to the recent fiasco over the Wilson and Wilson post at The Gospel Coalition. We have such a narrow view of how God is working in the church in …

Doug Wilson, Jared Wilson, The Gospel Coalition, and the Logical Conclusions of Complementarian Theology

Back in 2010, I wrote a series of posts exploring a woman’s freedom in Christ, focusing on the increasing number of problems I saw with the complementarian view as it was being promoted among some of its more prominent spokesmen and women. I was at the point where I could no longer call myself a …

Christians Failing to Read the Signs

I’ve been working on my next ebook which is about Ministering to Someone with Chronic Illness. I found this post and it dovetails so well with some of the ideas I’ve been working on for the ebook. We Must See Past What It Seems We’ve experienced this. Not to the same degree as this family, …

Voskamp, Challies, One Thousand Gifts, and What is Truly Ironic to Me

In recent weeks much was written about the exchanges between Tim Challies and Ann Voskamp regarding Challies’ review of her book, One Thousand Gifts. He didn’t like the book, she sort of responded, and he sort of backed down when she invited his family to dinner. I will confess that I haven’t read the book. …

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I’m a Christian, wife, just-retired homeschool mom, battle-seasoned blogger, and happy warrior for Christ. This is my place where I think out loud about what I'm learning as I study the Bible and observe the world around me. I am highly intuitive and a skilled noticer of patterns.

“Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.” Acts 17:11

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