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Herman Bavinck on Men and Women


 23 Sep 2019
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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Originally published in 1908, Herman Bavinck's book The Christian Family was only just translated into English in 2012. Throughout the book, Bavinck lays out a Christian theology of the family, and he gives...

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Luther on Marriage (1)


 19 Mar 2019
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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Martin Luther’s Large Catechism, the current text for Reformed Theological Seminary’s Paideia Center reading groups, is a wonderful source of simple, practical, straightforward exposition of the essentials...

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Shall Children Listen to Sermons?


 18 Jan 2019
 Posted by Mark Jones
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I’ve been pastoring in Vancouver for roughly twelve years now, preaching close to 1000 sermons, to over 50 nationalities, with people of various backgrounds and theological understanding in the pews....

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Male-Only Ordination is Natural: Why the Church is a Model of Reality


 16 Jan 2019
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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One of the dangers inherent in "complementarianism" is the perception that ordination to ecclesiastical office is a matter of semi-arbitrary positive law and private zones of jurisdiction, that male leadership...

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More Thoughts on Spiritual Friendship/Gay Christianity– Unpacking Some Basic Confusion


 25 Jun 2018
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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My essay over at Mere Orthodoxy on the Spiritual Friendship conversation has generated a fair amount of discussion these past few weeks. Much of it has been very good. Some of it was of the predictable...

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Against Prosthetic Masculinity


 09 May 2018
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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There's a deep irony with any attempt to lecture on masculinity. Throughout history, "manly men" have been men of relatively few words. Verbosity, on the other hand, has typically been considered effeminate....

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“Reproductive Rights” and Eugenics


 10 Jan 2018
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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An article from The Nation was recently making the rounds having to do with a putative "scare tactic" employed by Republicans in the debate over abortion, and particularly the abortion of babies who test...

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Westminsterian Aristotelianism: Marriage (5)


 11 Oct 2017
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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In the last post we looked at Samuel Willard's discussion of the first of the "mutual duties" husbands and wives owe to each other in the context of his exposition of Westminster Shorter Catechism Q/A 64, which...

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Hugh Hefner, the Logic of Porn, and the Homosexualization of Sex


 02 Oct 2017
 Posted by Alastair Roberts
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After the death of Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine, many people have been reflecting upon his cultural significance. Several of us recalled an especially powerful piece on Hefner from 2003...

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Westminsterian Aristotelianism: Marriage (4)


 20 Sep 2017
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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As I noted last time, Samuel Willard's next order of business in his exposition of Westminster Shorter Catechism Q/A 64 is to discuss the mutual duties of husbands and wives--those to which they are equally...

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