On International Women’s Day
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by Matthew Hosier
2w ago
On International Women’s Day we are invited to, imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. In his Theology of the Body John Paul II helps us to see the theological roots of why the relationships between men and women are not as they were intended to be: Like the words of Genesis 2:24, these words have a future-oriented character. The incisive formulation of Genesis 3:16 seems to concern the whole complex of the facts that in some way came to light already in the original experience of shame, but were later to become clear in the whole inner experience ..read more
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Stop Talking About It. You’ll Feel Better.
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by Matthew Hosier
3w ago
The WEIRD world has a problem. This is how Abigail Shrier encapsulates it in her new book, Bad Therapy: Why the kids aren’t growing up: With unprecedented help from mental health experts, we have raised the loneliest, most anxious, depressed, pessimistic, helpless, and fearful generation on record. Why? How did the first generation to raise kids without spanking produce the first generation to declare they never wanted kids of their own? How did kids raised so gently come to believe that they had experienced debilitating childhood trauma? How did kids who received far more psychotherapy than ..read more
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Is Male Headship in Marriage a Dangerous Idea?
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by Andrew Haslam
1M ago
A lot of people believe that the doctrine of male headship & authority in the home is a dangerous idea that inevitably leads to the oppression of women. Are they right? The answer is not straightforward. In her book, The Toxic War on Masculinity, Nancy Pearcey describes two contrasting pieces of evidence on this subject from a US context. On the one hand, she shows that, Compared to secular men, devout Christian family men who attend church regularly are more loving husbands and more engaged fathers. They have the lowest rates of divorce. And astonishingly, they have the lowest ..read more
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When a Baby is a Disease
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by Matthew Hosier
1M ago
Everyone know that an unborn baby is a baby. Most would not go as far as the State of Alabama, with its ruling that frozen embryos are children, but certainly by the time a woman knows she is pregnant what is in her womb is clearly a baby. This reality received further confirmation last week with the government decision that those who lose a baby through miscarriage before 24 weeks can now receive a baby loss certificate. ‘Campaigners said they were “thrilled” that millions of families would finally get the formal acknowledgement that their baby existed.’ Baby. We are confused about babies th ..read more
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Graphic Preaching
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by Matthew Hosier
1M ago
Preaching is a tricky business. It's something I've done a lot of over the past thirty years but I still sometimes feel like a novice. Learning about preaching from other preachers is essential, both listening to their sermons and reading what they write about the craft. 'Simply Preaching: a visual guide' by Daniel Goodman offers a novel take on this - 150 illustrations highlighting some do's & don't's of preaching. Here's a sample: Some examples are very practical: Some reflect mistakes I’ve certainly committed or witnessed: Some are helpful correctives to what can be unnecessary ..read more
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Joseph and Moses
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by Andrew Wilson
1M ago
James Hamilton and Matt Damico point out the parallels between Joseph and Moses in their Reading the Psalms as Scripture. I had never noticed several of these: 1) When Moses intervened between two Hebrews fighting one another (2:13), the question in Exodus 2:14, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us?” is reminiscent of the question Joseph’s brothers asked when he recounted his dream in Genesis 37:8, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” 2) In the same way that the dreams indicated that Joseph’s brothers would bow down to him, the facts that Moses’s mother ..read more
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Do Not Even Eat With Him
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by Andrew Wilson
2M ago
How should we understand and apply the New Testament texts about excommunicating and (perhaps) even shunning people? 1 Corinthians 5 tells the church not to eat with a so-called brother who is sleeping with his stepmother; 2 Thessalonians 3 and Titus 3 talk about having "nothing to do with" some sorts of people; 2 John urges us not to greet people who do not bring the right teaching; two passages talk about "handing over to Satan" a person who has sinned in a particular way; and of course Jesus talks in Matthew 18 about the need to treat unrepentant people like tax collectors. We might be con ..read more
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Seven Things Church Leaders Need to Consider (Guest post from Jez Field)
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by Andrew Bunt
2M ago
Let me first say something up front: I love my wife. We have a healthy marriage (at least I think so!), and I feel most at peace whenever I’m in her company. I say that because of what I’m about to say, something I believe our churches need to consider. When we gather as churches for a celebration of the gospel, or when we sit together for prayer, or when we pore over the scriptures in a group, we are, in those moments, touching something much deeper than we realise. We are engaged in something more eternal than our marriages since at these moments we’ve stepped out of the rehearsal room and ..read more
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Welcome More Babies
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by Matthew Hosier
2M ago
Parenting can be hard work. Grace and I have certainly experienced the lows as well as the highs with our four children. But underpinning our parenting are theological convictions that are more substantive than current experience. Heidi Dean, channeling Stanley Hauerwas, helps explain some of this. The idea that we ought to be pro-children—whether in bearing, adopting, fostering, or serving—runs across all of Scripture. When Jesus showed unusual favor to women, children, and other underdogs of the ancient world, he was continuing God’s pattern throughout the Old Testament, where he repeatedly ..read more
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Welcoming the Baby
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by Matthew Hosier
3M ago
In January Andrew noticed that we might have a problem with demographics – that declining birth rates might be the biggest problem our society faces. I’d made a similar observation a decade before that. This hasn’t been a popular observation, and is still controversial. Rosie Duffield MP recently had to withdraw from a debate on the subject following the torrent of abuse she received for planning to contribute. The statistics are startling though and the consequences profound. In country after country there are insufficient babies being born to maintain the population, and this means shrinkin ..read more
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