I'd been meaning to read Rachel Held Evans' A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master' for a while, but never got around to it. I think this was partly because I didn't want to revisit some of the stricter doctrines I grew up around and partly because I ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to read Anita Diamant's The Red Tent since I discovered midrash: the practice of engaging scripture by retelling its stories to answer particular questions ( Read more... )

The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ.
--1 Corinthians 2:15-16

( Being subject to human judgment.... )

This is probably not going to have any specific content, and therefore I'm not friends-locking it. It's just time for me to have a little vent, that's all.

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