What Does it Mean to be Human? Male and Female? »

This morning’s Sunday school on chapter 4 of London Baptist Confession, download here.

Creation Order Irrelevant? A Brief Response to John Hobbins and Michael Heiser »

A number of months ago I posted an argument against the doctrine of women pastors/elders. At the time, I was in my third or fourth year of being indifferent to the debate, though largely sympathetic to egalitarianism (mostly due to college pressures). So it was ironic that the coin toss for the debate topic of [...]

Women and Men: Karl, Quotes, and Commentary »

For those who don’t see the apologetic/theological importance of the gender debate, refer to my last post, especially the quotations from Vanhoozer on the significance of gender and the ministry conflicts transgendered/transsexuality is creating. Karl Barth was one of the few theologians who dove deeply into the subject of gender and tried to make original [...]

Vanhoozer Hits a Home Run on the Gender Debate »

The idea that we are trapped in women’s bodies or women trapped in man’s bodies collapses the distinction between sex and gender with a Gnostic, even docetic, disregard for bodily reality (he only seems [dokeo] to be made)… In refusing one’s biology, the creature refuses what is ultimately not merely a natural given but a [...]

December 2009 Quick Update! »

Just got back from an annual hunting trip up at the lodge. Many highlights, family, food, a gorgeous river view, and of course, the hunt. So the short story is I literally…nope. Not gonna say what happened to this poor pheasant…let’s just say, upon odd circumstances, his cranial consciousness necessarily departed from his lower body [...]

An Introduction to the Gender Role and Women in Ministry Controversy »

American evangelicalism is being torn apart by the gender role and women-in-ministry controversy. Is gender purely subjective? What does “gender” even mean? Are men natural leaders, ordained by God to exercise authority over women in the covenant of marriage? And to what extent do women have authority in various positions of church government? Generally speaking, [...]

An Introduction to the Christian Philosophy of Gender – Part 1 »

An Introduction to the Christian Philosophy of Gender – Part 1: Gender and Sexuality as God (and the World) Defines It As any philosopher knows, the most simplest things in life often turn out to be the most complicated. I was sitting in apologetics this morning for seminary, and my professor said briefly that “the [...]