On hold
Sorry I've been so quiet. I had an episode with the virus that's been going around, which I managed to...

Reaction formation
Peter Nixon asks if Virginia Postrel's criticism of evangelicals is fair: As I've said before, saying that homosexuality is wrong...

Mark 6
Jesus and co. return to Nazareth, where the locals are amazed and hostile about his strange behavior. This guy is...

A gender-conscious blogwatch
Sgt. Stryker posted his remarks that I quoted earlier on his own blog, with more comments. This set Peter Nixon...

The measure of man
It seems to be Testosterone Week here at my blog, but I'm still pondering the whole masculinity thing. Once again,...

Promise Keepers
Allen's passing mention of the Promise Keepers reminded me of a remarkable piece I read a few years back, by...

Mark 5
This chapter begins with a very wild tale. Jesus and his crew finish crossing the Gallilee and come to the...

More on the man problem
From Peter Nixon: When I made my Cursillo, I encountered a lot of men who, at my age, were a...

Still more about power
Rob thinks I'm going all Foucaultian in seeing power relations even in family relationships. Power, in his mind, is about...

Powers and principalities
The discussion about church and gender has gone on at The Right Christians and has moved to another, related subject:...

Men, men, men, men
Donald Sensing has a long post protesting the feminization of church. Allen Brill begs to differ. I agree with Allen...

Void where prohibited
Andi disagreed with my use of "the Void" in this post, so I poked around a bit to see just...

For unto us a child is born
Pen's little pacifist arrived a bit ahead of schedule, but all seems to be well. Congratulations!...

And she's making me feel like I've never been born
OK, I finally have a bit of time to myself and should start on the backlog of posts that have...

Out to lunch
Sorry for the absence of posting; I've had no time. Just got back from L.A.'s downtown library (a fun place...

Out on a Blogwatch
I'm not feeling up to full-blown posting today, but at some point I do want to address Andi's incisive response...

The fortress of solitude
I'm coming down with a cold, so it might not be the wisest thing to post with a half-melted brain,...

Many gods and many lords
Compare and contrast: recent posts on Christian-Muslim relations from Bill Cork and Allen Brill (and his commenters), plus an older...