“Separate sphere ideology dictated different roles for men and women. While white men embodied bravery and strength, white women personified weakness and purity. Separate sphere ideology in the South meant adherence to a strict hierarchy based on race and class as well as gender. This ideology excluded blacks from either sphere. The duties within the spheres differed due... Continue Reading

“It’s wonderful to celebrate the tasty pleasures of food, the stunning beauty of a fine piece of art, the sweet intimacy of sex, or the sound drama of a well-written piece of music. But as you’re celebrating pleasure, don’t forget to celebrate grace.”   1. Sex is God’s good creation. God in his great wisdom,... Continue Reading

We are supposed to be in the midst of a great sexual reassessment, a clearing-out of assumptions that serve misogyny and impose bad sex on semi-willing women. And such a reassessment will be incomplete if it never reconsiders our surrender to the idea that many teenagers, most young men especially, will get their sex education... Continue Reading

It won’t stop with polyamory. Polygamy will follow on. And then what? There is no reason, given the logic of the position that has led us this far, that incest will not be legalized. When I challenged one group on this I was told: ‘I don’t have a moral objection to incest between two consenting adults... Continue Reading

The goal in studying this is being able to realize when you’re actively engaging in depression-anxiety. In the moments below, depression-anxiety is not “happening to you” but “coming from you.” These are patterns that, by the freedom God gives in the gospel, you can overcome.   Just as we can have bad physical habits like... Continue Reading

While power and authority are not necessarily evil in themselves, they can become instruments of abuse when someone greater wields it over someone lesser to gain something that they could not get unless pressure was brought to bear. There are plenty of examples in the secular world like Harvey Weinstein. But how much worse is... Continue Reading

People notice when others care about them and respond to them. However, far too often our empathy has left people weak and has allowed the weakness and dysfunctionality of wounded and stunted people to set the terms for the rest of society. Peterson represents a different approach: the compassionate authority of mature and wise persons... Continue Reading

“While the old maxim ‘to each his own’ rings true, I have personally found Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator helpful over the years. And as it turns out, so do around 10,000 companies, 2,500 colleges and universities, and 200 government agencies.”   Most of us have taken at least one personality test over the course of... Continue Reading

In America, there is division between many blacks and whites, yet racists come in all colors. And even greater than the black-white divide are the divides between Christians and non-believers, between liberals and conservatives, and between the inhabitants of fly-over-country and coastal elites. A focus on race and racism, particularly white racism, is not judging... Continue Reading

It will be interesting and informative about the state of the PCA, to see what White’s church and presbytery do if he does not change his position. In some ways, White’s position on the separation of church and state is not too far distant from the Two Kingdoms view popular in some evangelical and reformed circles.  ... Continue Reading