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Aug
22

Gay Marriage Clarified

It has taken a long time into the gay marriage debate to reveal the actual way gay marriage accepted as a legal right could change the general landscape on marriage as a whole. For most of the years in which it was actively debated, the premise put forth and accepted by most was simple, “It won’t change marriage, either in concept or law”. The fundamental matter of what change might take...
Dec
10

Shhh! Don’t Talk About It

Adrian Warnock shared some of the points from Ed Stetzer’s post about research findings on the effects of pornography. Would it make a difference to you if you knew more about these points? Pornography is addictive, and neuroscientists are beginning to map the biological substrate of this addiction. Married men who are involved in pornography feel less satisfied with their conjugal relations and...
Jun
10

Correct Choice of Words

So little time, so much to say. That might be the motto of many of us, especially of bloggers, or maybe it is just noticeable in bloggers -especially by other bloggers? Crafting our word choices is often a lost art, and perhaps why we so easily miscommunicate. Then there is the truncated ability to decode actual word meanings (which could inspire a digression into the state of today’s education...
Jun
9

A Woman’s Place

This was originally published on Intellectuelle Part 1, in the Church I don’t know of a more hot-button topic for both the churched and unchurched than this one. For that reason, we should probably try to take a fresh new look at threading out the various views on just what a woman’s place in society consists of. It seems as if there are more presumptions on what the Christian scriptures say...
Jun
4

Et-Elle Topic

Wrote a post @ et-elle.com: How Sex Influences God’s Message. No feedback yet. We think our views on sex and gender are in a separate category from our religious life, and how we express the gospel and ourselves often is full of mixed messages. I wonder how much of our own understanding of God and of how we should live our lives is influenced by our need to rationalize our thinking on the conflicting...
Aug
14

Apologist Analyzes Freud

Apologist Analyzes Freud Dinesh D’Souza takes Freud, and Marx along with him, to the couch. Making the pointed observation, “It’s hard to believe so many intelligent people spent their lives studying these two thinkers. Intellectuals, we have to conclude, are often fatally attracted to far-out theories that tease the mind but that bear little relation to what’s actually going on in the world”. People...
Apr
30

Worth Reading

The Anchoress has a post called ‘Prudery, Virginity and Do-Me Feminism‘ which gives a portion of an interview with Carol Platt Liebau and some of her own insights on feminism,...
Feb
24

A Woman’s Place, In The Church – summing up my own view

“A Woman’s Place, In The Church – summing up my own view” is the first repost (the original appeared on Intellectuelle in March 2006) here to provide background in the continuing conversation on women authority and roles in the Church. The entire series is listed in links at the bottom of the article. In my former post,A Woman’s Place, March 28 , I said this: “the big...
Jun
4

Fragments from my basket

Michele @ Life Under the Sun has been discussing the “women in church” question. I had grappled with that gender topic awhile back @ Intellectuelle I’m still of the opinion that it is an authority question rather than a division of ministry question. God allows for women to hold places of leadership when the men in authority allow it, with everything done in order. The portion I did not...
May
1

Talking About a Damaging Issue

Right before the Virginia Tech massacre, a post came to my attention from halfway across the world. We see violence and become aware of how very damaging it is to our world, how much loss we are suffering from the destruction of souls, especially young ones, but anyone who somehow was deterred from fulfilling a destiny. The difference with this damaging issue is that it is often invisible to us while it...
Jan
8

Parableman highlights argument

Parableman: “Animal Behavior as a Basis for Human Morality” points us to think about. Laurence Thomas has an excellent post Are There Gay Animals? On Justifying Gay Behavior in Humans. ….Laurence doesn’t think there’s anything at all wrong with being gay, but he points out some severe flaws with one argument for the opposite conclusion. Some people, in order to support the...
Jan
3

Villainous Company: A Question Of Balance

Villainous Company: A Question Of Balance I just loved this post. My first reaction was that while no parent should force a boy to act like a girl or a girl to act like a boy, it is a vital part of socialization to teach boys to channel their aggression (and girls to use their not inconsiderable people skills) in socially acceptable ways. There is nothing inherently good about unbridled masculinity or...
Jan
3

Impact of Religion on Society

[repost from October 24, 2004 @ 12:42] More about the impact of religion on society The Means and The End It was questioned where I would weight the impact of religions on society,”you seem to think that religion has a smaller impact on society than homosexual marriage.” I believe religion has the greatest impact of any single influence in society, if we include the philosophy/world view that...
Dec
12

The Devil’s Food made me do it?

I don’t think so. WorldNetDaily: A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals Folks, you’ve got to read nutritional information carefully- it is one of the most abused areas of “scientific research” that I know of. First, I am dubious…ok, I would laugh to scorn the idea that eating something makes you engage in homosexual...
Aug
31

Sex is Topic

Everywhere I look- sex, as in gender and roles and the ‘et al’ that goes with all of that, is the scintillating topic. This is good news for me since I am getting ready to continue the “Place of Women” and the gender discussions. An abundance of blog fodder is now available! The Anchoress and Fausta and MaxedOutMama had some mutual discussions going on, the religious Godblogs, of...

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