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Book Reviews | Church | Culture | PoliticsMilitant Masculinity: A Review of Jesus and John Wayne.
My mom recently mentioned to me a book she had heard about and was starting to read. It was by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. I had not really heard of her except the briefest of snippets I had seen on Twitter that had mentioned the title of her book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…
A few moments with a Snow Goose.
As I started to take my hobby of bird photography more seriously, my goal became to see and identify specific birds. I have mentioned elsewhere that I do think it is wise to go for a bird walk with a specific expectation in mind or you may end up rather disappointed. This does not mean,…
Review of Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley
Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley is a fascinating and compelling book that offers readers a glimpse into what it means and has meant to read the Bible in the ‘Black Ecclesial Tradition.’ McCaulley invites us on a journey the is thoughtful, personal, and important. The first chapter is autobiographical as he wrestled to find…
Review of The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
In the preface to the 2006 edition of Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Ligon Duncan has a most telling comment. Pagan ideas underlie evangelical egalitarianism, based, as it is, on ideas borrowed from cultural feminism. Egalitarianism must always lead to an eventual denial of the gospel. When the biblical distinctions of male and female are…
Vulnerability and the Church
We want our pastors to be vulnerable but without any wounds.Ok, maybe wounds are allowed so long as they are healed wounds. We want healed wounds without any scars.Well, maybe scars are ok if those scars are covered and no longer show any weakness. We want weakness but no struggles.Then again, maybe we can deal…
Christmas Eve Sermon
There is no better time to reflect and re-tell the Christmas story than on Christmas Eve. The story doesn’t change, we might notice or highlight different aspects but it is the same story. I heard a pastor say that the story doesn’t change but the sermon must- I think we all agree. Tonight, we had…