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Once again, I put aside joking around just for a minute to ask blog readers to pray for my colleague, Alan Groves, and his family, as he struggles with cancer. See http://www.algroves.info/

Thanks, Phil, for your helpful comments regarding feminism. In light of this, I would like to say that I am sympathetic to the reasons why women are drawn in a feminist direction. While I do not believe that patriarchy (biblically defined) is a sin, as Stackhouse claims, I do believe that many...

It is always nice to receive constructive comments and questions from readers of ref21. A question I received with reference to the sin of slavery (from my reply to Susan Wise Bauer) reads as follows: " Could someone kindly show me how this is so, especially given the Abrahamic Covenant (Gen. 17:12...

In a recent post, taxi driver Keith Moon was quoted as saying that entertainer and post-Wittgensteinian linguistic philosopher, Charo, claimed in the back of his cab that Del-Boy was converted at a Stryper concert. It has since emerged that this has been inaccurately reported elsewhere as Del-Boy...

The shinanigins of that twonk, Baudrillard-Jones over the past week have been a bit, well, al dente, as they in Spain. Know w'at I mean? I was telling this geezer from Portugal, Miguel, that 'e must 'ave some Freudian neurosomething that makes 'im wish 'e were Celt an' all that, if you ask me...

You can't choose your family . . . or can you? Last week ABC News reported that 40-year old Jenna MacFarlane has adopted new parents. Feeling estranged from her own family, MacFarlane took out a personal ad that began "Single white female seeking family." She received nearly a hundred replies and...

Many thanks to Rick Phillips for his helpful comments on slavery, servitude, and manstealing. The topic seems especially appropriate in 2007, which is the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. In support of what Rick has already said, here are some additional...

I am grateful for Rick Phillips's latest post on feminism. There are errors on both sides of a biblical view of godly male leadership in the home and in the church. Authoritarian, domineering men who stifle the gifts of women -- or worse, who use their stength or their position to legitimate verbal...

The book review section of Reformed Man Today lists the following three must reads for all cutting-edge confessional types out there:

I see that Phil and I are on the same scent and barking up the same tree (since we're talking about guys, we might as well start with the dog metaphors right away!). Like Phil, I am actually a bit reserved about the application of the term "patriarchy" to masculine leadership today. The reason I...