Made to Work

I wanted to say here at the beginning of this post that some of our readers have commented that Ruth is not presently writing for our blog.  Ruth and I are in different stages of life, so I have more time to write posts.  But Ruth is very active in editing all of the...

One Human Race

This is the first post in my series inspired by my readings on racial justice. Here, I’d like to discuss the equality of all people from a biblical perspective. There are certain basic beliefs which underlie much of Christian doctrine and practice. They are simple...

Plumb-lines

When I embarked upon the study of the roles of men and women in Scripture in 1984, I had a couple of concerns in view.  First, I felt acutely my own resistance to biblical submission as I had been taught. I was having personal difficulty with submission to my husband....

The Beginning of us All – Falling

In the third chapter of Genesis, a tempter came which the Bible later teaches us was Satan.  Satan spoke to the woman and made her think that God was depriving them of something desirable.   3:1 “Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the...

The Beginning of us all – A Real Choice

8 The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the...