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Of Hate Mail and “Oxford Commas”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
I got my very first piece of borderline hate mail recently. Since it has been said by writers far more seasoned than I that you haven’t really “arrived” in the blogging world until the hate mail starts accruing, I’m actually feeling pretty un-phased by the development. (Just think, for example, about all the controversy that Rachel…
Sermon on the Mount Family Planning
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Here at the intersection between life and God, author Sandy Ralya recently wrote a kind response to my original review of her book, The Beautiful Wife. (Thank you, Sandy!) Where I question Ralya’s challenge to Christian couples to have more children in response to the specter of a growing Muslim world, especially for the reason…
“The Beautiful Wife”: How One Woman Is Crusading to Save Christian Marriages
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Reading the book, The Beautiful Wife, by author and speaker Sandy Ralya, whose agenda to save so-called “biblical marriage” seems a bit dubious from the start, feels like the times I’ve been asked to buckle up during a spate of turbulence on airplanes and find myself absent-mindedly checking for the barf bag in the seat in…
The End of Biblical Womanhood?
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Kristina Robb-Dover
And, finally, my review of Rachel Held-Evans’ latest book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which aired on Sermons That Work two days ago and is reprinted here with the permission of The Episcopal Digital Network: If “biblical womanhood” were a rutabaga, then Rachel Held-Evans, in her newfound, tongue-and-cheek praise of womanly domesticity, would slice and dice it until it…
More Thoughts on “Disappearing Mothers”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
My last post and popular blogger and author Rachel Held-Evans’ subsequent shout-out in her Sunday Superlatives (for “Best Conversation Starter in the Blogosphere”) have generated a throng of readers and a string of interesting comments, most of which seem to be largely in disagreement with Roiphe’s take on the matter (and my own points of…
A Year of Kingdom-of-God Living
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Kristina Robb-Dover
“But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” – Matthew 6:33 It’s rare that I remember my dreams, but the other night I did. In the dream, my parents had decided to buy a small trailer home in Boston. The trailer…
“Reading the Bible For All It’s Worth”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Some people really know their Bibles. One of them is Steve Hayner. Steve is the president of Columbia Theological Seminary, in Atlanta, Georgia, and has taught missiology, pastored churches, and worked at the helm of the student ministries organization, InterVarsity. He also has gotten three degrees in biblical studies, and has written a book on…
The Parasite Conundrum and Other News
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Kristina Robb-Dover
It’s that time again: we’re getting up to speed on the “mish mash,” and then highlighting some of the future treats in store for us. First, my apologies to those of you who caught two critical mistakes in yesterday’s post, one of which remains to be corrected: the Rwandan genocide was actually in 1994 and…
The World of Biblical Literalism: Men With Short Hair and Women Without Jewelry or Leadership Skills
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Fellow saints and sinners have left some interesting comments during the last few days! Someone with the online name of “Roodness” writes the following in response to my “Coffee with Jesus” lampoon of manliness pastor and cage fighter Mark Driscoll’s remarks on women in leadership (see http://blog.beliefnet.com/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners/2012/01/coffee-with-jesus-jesus-sits-down-with-mark-driscoll.html): “…It really comes down to: do we take the…
“Terminator and Jesus”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
This video, which came out some years back, lends some humor to all the Internet buzz around “masculine” versus “feminine” Christianity. I stumbled on it thanks to David Lumley, who posted it on friend Michael Frost’s FB page. (Thanks, David!) I can’t think of a better caricature of “macho masculinity” than the Terminator, can you?…
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