A Note on Submissive Roles

Notice the admonishments not to be afraid. It is issued to both the women who are submitting to their husbands (3:6), and to those who "suffer for the sake of righteousness," who face "intimidation" (3:14). It is interesting that the calling given is one of not being afraid. Isn't fearfulness a requirement for ( Read more... )

I've discovered the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, via Wikipedia.  You can access all sorts of literature, free to read.  I've decided I should resume working through The Ante-Nicene Fathers.  But this time I'll start at the beginning, instead of with Origen.  I need to read on this period anyway, by sheer nature of being a Christian who ( Read more... )

I can understand a man concluding that he has no soul. When I look within myself and see carnal recklessness, apathy concerning the future, and all forms of immediate self-preservation and self-indulgence, all stampeding the meekness of neighbor, I too wonder if I am borne on naught but chemical reaction. Yet, I, and any whose life experience has ( Read more... )

"When Paul mentions Christ, how he heaps up his names and titles, his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, as one that took a pleasure in speaking of him; and, having mentioned him, he cannot go on in his discourse without some expression of love and honour..."  -Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

After at least a year of meaning to find my way to ( Read more... )