In December 2014, a pastor named Stephen Kim (of whom I had never heard) posted an article on his blog, nycpastor.com, entitled Ten Men Christian Women Should Not Marry. It got a little bit of press in social media circles, but not much. Until he published a follow-up article: Ten Women Christian Men Should Not…
I remember coming home from a conference on cross-gender friendship a couple years ago, and calling one of my best friends from college. “How’d it go?” she asked. “It was awesome. I learned a lot… oh, and I think I’m an egalitarian feminist.” She started laughing. “No, really. I think I’ve been one for awhile, actually….
Jesus Feminist. It took me months to get through this book – not because it was a difficult read, but because it was a great one. I would read up to a point, and then I’d have to set it down and just think about it for awhile. And then life would happen. And then I’d pick…
— 1 — Wow. What a crazy lot of great conversation has happened over the past week ever since Rachel Held Evans made a simple observation on Twitter about the imbalance between the number of male and female speakers at a recent online leadership conference called the Nines. (You can see the speaker line-up…
A good friend of mine dropped me a note shortly after I preached last month, and one of the things he said was, “I think it was the first time people got to see you onstage. You seemed very comfortable with yourself and your message.” It struck me as a little funny… I mean, who was I the last time…
