Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 1/9)

“She became the high priestess of self-presentation, and was rewarded for it at every turn.” –Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood One spring I thought I would experiment with growing flowers from seeds, and drawn in by the seed packet’s representation of continual bright colored flowers, I planted cosmos along with morning glories and alyssum [...]

What does it mean to be a woman? continuing thoughts…

About a year and a half or so ago , I wrote a post called “What does it mean to be a woman?” That post was largely a rant inspired by several differant things (if you want to know, go read the long rant!), but it’s a topic I’ve never really gotten away from. I’ve [...]

Body Hate and the Soul

All women can name the part of their body they like the least. There’s always that elusive body part that if you could just make it smaller, or bigger, or straighter or something everything would go your way and handsome men would fall at your feet and fill your house with roses. The fact that [...]

Redeemed Relationships, Pt. 2

As much as I would love to get away from the subject of women in ministry, it seems that it keeps coming back to haunt me, and then I feel compelled to offer another blog post to add to the discussion. I was looking over the comment on my last post, and Chris wanted to [...]

Women in the early church and moving into redeemed relationships

I was reading this article over at Mere Comments, the blog from the editors of Touchstone Magazine. The article was about the segregation of men and women in the synagogue, but I found a fascinating comment on the article posted by Stuart Koehl. He comments on worship in the early church, and has this to [...]

When hair was a turn on…

Okay, since I approached the topic of head coverings because I mentioned 1 Cor 11 in my last post, I thought I’d briefly sketch the cultural significance of head coverings because it shows what Paul is driving at in these chapters.  There are some variences in the culture, but there is evidence from Greek, Jewish, [...]

Silent women and holy kisses

I was reading the introduction to Craig Keener’s book, Paul, Women, and Wives, and was amused at something I hadn’t thought of.  Head coverings for women are mentioned far less often than holy kisses.  In fact, holy kisses are commanded by Paul no less than five times.  And yet, how many churches do you know [...]

What does it mean to be a woman?

This may be an interesting post given that my readership, at least judging from the comments, is predominately male. That statistic is one that I’ve only recently become aware of, as I tend to view people as people regardless of gender (or sex), race or whatever. I recognize that there are gender or sex differences, [...]

Emerging Women Leaders

I may be a bit slow, but I just discovered the Emerging Women Leaders webpage. I had visited the breakfast at the Emergant Convention in San Diego back in March, but I somehow missed there was a webpage until now. Ah well. There is, and you all should go check it out. Here is an [...]

Women in Ministry

Okay, I guess I’ve had my head in a dark room for a while because I just found the conversation, or should I say firestorm, going on over at tall skinny kiwi’s blog. It’s worth a read. I was quite surprised by the vehemence of the responses to Andrew’s post, and thought that as a [...]