Defining Desire: How should we understand Eve’s desire in Genesis 3:16?
In many Christian circles, women are taught that their supreme calling in life is to be a good wife, complying with a God-ordained order where
September 11, 2014
Topic: Biblical Passages / Studies
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Chain of Inference: “Seeing” Male Authority as God’s Design in Genesis
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The
September 11, 2014
On Paul’s Use of Creation Narratives
Excerpted and adapted from John Jefferson Davis, “First Timothy 2:12, the Ordination of Women, and Paul’s Use of Creation Narratives,” published in Priscilla Papers 23.2
September 11, 2014
The Scythians—Who Were They? And Why Did Paul Include Them in Colossians 3:11?
Scythians in the Bible Colossians 3:11 Many readers of this journal will have memorized Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free,
September 5, 2014
Jessie Penn-Lewis’s Cross Theology
“We must turn to the finished work of our Redeemer . . .”1 Introduction Considered the most influential woman affiliated with the Welsh Revivals (1904–05)
September 3, 2014
Short Answers to Tough Questions: How are Christians to understand the imagery of Israel as God’s unfaithful wife, and what is the relevance of the divine-human marriage metaphor in our lives today?
Q: An ever-present “woman” in the Old Testament is Israel, God’s metaphorical wife. How are Christians to understand the imagery of Israel as God’s unfaithful
September 1, 2014
In the Midst of the Mess: Hagar and the God Who Sees
Along a desert road, beside a remote, unnamed well, the angel of the Lord approaches a pregnant, abused, runaway slave named Hagar. The young woman
August 31, 2014
Proverbs 31 Man
Maybe the biblical character you best connect with is Daniel in the lion’s den, or Mary when the stone was rolled away. Sometimes we connect
August 31, 2014
Gender and Justice in the New Testament
Introduction The topic of gender and justice in the New Testament raises two preliminary questions: First, what modern sense of “justice” and of “gender” is
August 27, 2014
Beliefs Known by Praxis
This post originally appeared on Scot’s blog Jesus Creed on August 5, 2014: patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2014/08/05/beliefs-known-by-praxis/. What we believe and how we behave are not quite perfectly
August 19, 2014