This is my 3rd post in as many days.  After realizing starting a blog is easy, but posting daily is difficult I realized I had to get my rear in gear.  So I’ve been reading my blog roll every morning and then posting a summary of my thoughts about what I read.

Today I decided to make a switch in my reading material.  For a long time I’ve read Donald Miller’s blog because his book Blue Like Jazz was formative for me when I found it early in college.  However, the last two days he has posted on dating: one directed to women and one to men.  Throughout both post he does something I can’t stand, and spoke on behalf of women as if he was one.  The under and overtones of sexism were too much so I had to let him go.  (for comparison, here an article about sexuality I can stand)

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Check out this awesome song from the Gungor Band.  It is pretty clever.  There is one part I don’t like.  There is a picture that stereotypes people wearing turbans as terrorist. (I think it is suppose to be Osama Bin Laden)  People wearing turbans are not terrorist any more than people wearing blue jeans and t-shirts.  Turbans can be associated with several meanings, terrorism is not one of them.  Besides this oversight I really like the video and especially love the song.  Hope you do to.

Books of God or of Humans?

Today we are writing our final papers for a class focused on the Pastoral Epistles of the New Testament: 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus.

These texts are rather controversial; their authorship is debated, they contain some pretty harsh stuff about women, and they represent a shift in the New Testament from the early Church who believed that Christ would return in their lifetime to a church who began to set up hierarchy.  This shift started the desire to figure out how to be a religion for the long run in a society which wasn’t really for them…. [Read more →]

Yesterday in my preaching class a professor brought up a point which struck me in a new way.  We complimented a classmate for preaching in a way that showed her genuine maternal nature and he encouraged her not to loose that gift.  He pointed out that in the church we emasculate our male leadership and masculate our female leadership.  I had never thought of it this way, but I think he is right…. [Read more →]

Yesterday, I watched my favorite football team the Kansas State Wildcats win the Sunflower Showdown and beat their rival the Kansas Jayhawks. However, as of late, whenever I watch football I am overwhelmed by how often high level sports are outright sexist…….. [Read more →]