Category: Men & Women
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An Email to an Egalitarian Critic (2011)
This is an email I wrote in October 2011. I came across it as I was going through some old files and realized it might be useful to make it public. I am turning it into a blog post here because the issues I was responding to are still very relevant. I have removed personal…
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Same-Sex Attraction, Sexual Identity, and the Gospel
This essay was originally published in 2018. It is republished on the blog, slightly edited. Re-Thinking “Revoice”:A Biblical Analysis of Same-Sex Attraction Scripture is clear that engaging in homosexual activity is contrary to God’s created design and God’s will for humanity. But what about same-sex attraction? Is sexual desire for someone of the same sex sinful,…
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Chesterton’s Wisdom on Home and Family Life
If there is one thing I have learned, it is that there is a Chesterton quote for every occasion. But Chesterton’s wit and wisdom especially come through when he is addressing home and family life. A collection of his essays entitled Brave New Family is a very jovial look at family life and a storehouse of insight.…
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Plucking and Cutting — An Examination of Matthew 5:27-32
This is an old article article, being republished for the blog. While sex happens in private, it has public implications and so biblical law has quite a bit to say about it. We cannot keep God’s law out of our bedrooms. But neither can we keep God’s law out of our hearts. And so the Scripture…
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The Servant Leader Trap: Help for Husbands Seeking to Lead Their Families Faithfully
Servant-leadership, as commonly understood in evangelical circles, has taken quite beating in recent years, and rightfully so. I have already addressed this issue in other places, but the problems should be spelled out more fully, especially for marriage.There are many Christian husbands who believe they are Jesus-like “servant leaders” when in reality they are abdicating their…
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Notes on 1 Corinthians 7:2-5
Sexual Desire and Sexual Refusal in Marriage:A Pauline Theology of Consent This is an article especially for married men. “When we marry, the choice is voluntary, but the duties are not a matter of choice: they are dictated by the nature of the situation.”- Edmund Burke The Sin of Sexual Refusal While desire cannot be negotiated in marriage,…
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The Books I’ve Loved – #1
I was going through my bookshelf the other day and came across Werner Neuer’s Man and Woman in Christian Perspective. I first read it in college, probably about 1993 or so. It was recommended to me by Peter Doyle, the pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church of Opelika, AL. Dr. Doyle used to do a college men’s…
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Defying the Patriarchy?
Have you seen reports on this new Netflix show Cuties? Looks like soft pedophilic porn. It’s sick. Maybe with Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars, some on the left are trying to normalize pedophilia before a bunch of them get busted for it. Maybe they can get it legalized before they go to jail. Let’s hope not. What’s interesting to me…
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The Folk Wisdom of the Red Pill: Counsel for Today’s Man
This post is written for men — young men, married men, and at the end, I make a plea to men who are church leaders. Since Theopolis has started a conversation over the value of so-called “red pill” thinking for men, I thought I’d chip in something a little different here. I’ve read a number of red…
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Compementarianism and Patriarchy
The good men over at It’s Good to Be a Man have published a short note on mine of on men and women. You can read it here.
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