- Lots of good stuff in Greg Lee's sermons on gender and sexuality from the Hunter Bible Church 'mid year conference'. Something very insightful about deliberately focussing on this topic for a young adults conference.
- A response to the 'women against feminism' meme. It makes some very good points. But it overstates the necessary connection between humanitarian concern for women, women's rights and philosophical feminism. It seems that feminism's definition gets broadened and shrunk depending on the context, in a way that is unhelpful. Because there are some things about philosophical feminisim that in the end, I think aren't good for women at all.
- Richard Dawkin's sexism gives atheism a bad name.
- I welcome Tim Challies' call to make sure we build friendships that are founded on a desire for mutual sanctification: “Maybe what we need is need fewer books, and more friendships, fewer abstract principles and more applied principles. We need to be less willing to say, “Read this and call me in the morning” and more “Walk with me and I’ll show you. Come into my home and watch. Come into my life and see.” If it is true that in the Bible “friendships of accountability and training are central to growth in holiness,” There is a necessary application: “Mentoring programs in the church ought not to be something parishioners must seek out but rather something so prevalent that parishioners would have to intentionally avoid them.” Is this the case in your church? Is this the case in your life?”
