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Culture War Casualties: 10,000 Abandoned Children
Please support World Vision or similar organisations. Millions need your help. World Vision has released an update on the damage done by the culture wars last week: 10,000 abandoned children. That’s...
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Jesus’ Wife
You have more than likely heard about a small fragment of papyrus that suggests that Jesus had a wife. The fragment was recently dated to be authentic from somewhere between 659 and 859 CE. Some who...
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The Rape of Bathsheba
David is one of the most interesting characters in the Bible. He was chosen despite being the youngest and weakest of his brothers to be the next King. He defeated the giant Goliath. He survived Saul’s...
View ArticleDaughters of Eve: What is Lust?
I’d like to introduce you to a new YouTube video series from Samantha Field. She’s aiming to provide some very realistic discussions of sex from a Christian perspective. In the first video, she tackles...
View ArticleHobby Lobby and Birth Control Culture Wars
The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has just made their ruling that corporations like Hobby Lobby can deny providing birth control insurance if it violates the religious beliefs of the owners. Why? Why has...
View ArticleWomen in Jesus’ Ancestry
Luke, surprisingly perhaps since he is generally considered the most woman-friendly of the four Gospel writers, does not include any women in his genealogy of Jesus. Matthew, however, lists among his...
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Rape Culture in Celebrity Photo Theft
This photo Jennifer Lawrence has consented to you seeing A few days ago a hacker (or team of hackers) successfully stole nude photos of approximately 100 celebrity women. Those photos were quickly...
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Diversity in My 10 Most Influential Books
There’s been one of those viral challenges going around Facebook asking for your 10 most influential books. Here’s mine, not counting the books of the Bible: Repenting of Religion by Greg Boyd Disunity...
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Same-sex and Interracial Marriage
XKCD is typically a pretty funny comic. This one, though, just made me go “huh, interesting.” Source: http://xkcd.com/1431/ The ALT text says this: People often say that same-sex marriage now is like...
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Jian Ghomeshi and Picking Sides
Jian Ghomeshi is generally a pretty well-loved figure for the under 40 crowd in Canada and syndicated across the US as well. I’ve never really listened to his show, though, so don’t have any particular...
View ArticleThe Women of Gone Girl
I was generally quite happy with the movie Gone Girl when we went to see it in theatre, which is now quite a while ago and I just haven’t gotten around to the final edits on this post. It’s that dark...
View ArticleIntroduction to New Direction Canada
Next Thursday, MennoNerds will be interviewing staff from New Direction Canada, a ministry that works to create safe space for sexual minorities in exploring and deepening faith in Jesus. They do a lot...
View ArticleJudgement in LGBT Debates
I am just concluding reading Generous Spaciousness by Wendy Gritter, Executive Director of New Direction ministries in Canada, which works on helping sexual minorities within the Church and who will be...
View ArticleAnswering Cardinal Raymond Burke on Feminism
I just saw Vicky Beeching tweet a link to this article at Christianity Today entitled Feminism to blame for men’s crisis of confidence, says cardinal. I’m sure you can tell by the title that there are...
View ArticleInternalizing Hate Messages
As we head up to a MennoNerds interview with New Direction Canada, including Executive Director Wendy Gritter, I’d like to share another few quotes from her work Generous Spaciousness. In this one, she...
View ArticleHomosexuality: A Disputable Matter
In the chapter “A Disputable Matter?” Wendy Gritter of New Direction Canada fleshes out her suggested approach to issues around same-sex attraction. She begins with a discussion of the idea of...
View ArticleVicky Beeching at GCN Conference
I’m a big fan of Vicky Beeching. Her music is some of my favourite worship music, plus she’s a brilliant theologian, a bit of a tech nerd, funny, and British, so wins all around even before her recent...
View ArticleGenerous Spaciousness by Wendy Gritter (Review)
I’ve provided a few quotes already from Wendy Gritter’s Generous Spaciousness. See the posts: Judgement in LGBT Debates, Internalizing Hate Messages, and Homosexuality: A Disputable Matter. Now for a...
View ArticleTalking About Stuff on WikiGodPod
A week and a half ago, I was interviewed by Mark Groleau for WikiGodPod. It was published this past Monday so you can check it out from the WikiGodPod website or through iTunes or other RSS readers....
View ArticleThe Super Bowl Prostitution Myth
Every year I see at least a few people claiming as a matter of fact that the Super Bowl is the worst day/event of the year for sex trafficking by a wide margin. It’s a logical claim. It is the most...
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