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The Sexual Reformation with Aimee Byrd (Podcast)
Read more: The Sexual Reformation with Aimee Byrd (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Aimee Byrd for the fourth time to discuss her newest book, The Sexual Reformation: Restoring the Dignity and Personhood of Man and Woman (published by Zondervan). Over the course of the conversation we talk about how the core ideas of Aimee’s new book stem from her reading of the…
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Multiple Masculinities with Dr. Robert Stegmann (Podcast)
Read more: Multiple Masculinities with Dr. Robert Stegmann (Podcast)In this episode we carry on our broader discussion on cultural identity with Dr. Robert Stegmann, who is Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and the author of Contested Masculinities: Polysemy and Gender in 1 Thessalonians (Lexington). Over the course of our conversation, Dr. Stegmann explains his work on gender in Paul, in…
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The Making of Biblical Womanhood with Dr. Beth Allison Barr (Podcast)
Read more: The Making of Biblical Womanhood with Dr. Beth Allison Barr (Podcast)In this episode we discuss the concept of “Biblical Womanhood” from a historical perspective. To do so we are joined by Dr. Beth Allison Barr, who is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History at Baylor University (Waco, TX), and the author of the forthcoming book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How…
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Women Be Silent in Church! …Uhm, Did Paul Actually Write 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36?
Read more: Women Be Silent in Church! …Uhm, Did Paul Actually Write 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36?What I want to discuss here is controversial. Additionally, what I want to address is not novel. Here is the thought I’d like to ‘think aloud,’ so to speak, in the provocative world of the blogosphere: Is 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36 original? I should say up front that my focus is not on Complementarianism vs. Egalitarianism per…
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Biblical Manhood: My Turn
Read more: Biblical Manhood: My TurnThe first rule at The Two Cities is, You must write about biblical manhood. The second rule at The Two Cities is, You must write about biblical manhood. This website has dedicated more posts to the subject of biblical manhood than any other subject. First Ryan did an excellent series on the topic, examining the…
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The Macho Version of Biblical MANhood
Read more: The Macho Version of Biblical MANhoodSo far on this blog we’ve had some discussion led by Ryan about how the biblical manhood movement (mis)uses statistical cultural analysis when applying it to the Church (For the relevant posts in the 6-part series: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6). I do not intend here to pick up the discussion further, or to…
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Biblical Manhood: Practical Suggestions for Moving Forward
Read more: Biblical Manhood: Practical Suggestions for Moving ForwardThe biblical manhood series that I have been working on since the beginning of the blog comes to a conclusion in this post. I don’t have any jaw dropping critiques that will likely cause major disagreement; at least, I sure hope I don’t. In my last post, I laid out some points that I think…
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Biblical Manhood in Application: Are There Two Competing Visions for Biblical Manhood?
Read more: Biblical Manhood in Application: Are There Two Competing Visions for Biblical Manhood?Much of what I have been arguing for, or against, over the past couple of weeks has to do with what I believe is at the root of the misunderstanding surrounding proper applications of biblical manhood principles. I want to suggest that the biblical manhood movement puts crushing and often times unbiblical expectations on young…
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Sociological Data and Biblical Manhood: Insight Into the Issue or a Pathway to Problems?
Read more: Sociological Data and Biblical Manhood: Insight Into the Issue or a Pathway to Problems?During the fall of 2007, the book Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters by David Kinnaman was hot off the press. I can still remember my peers telling me that they couldn’t wait to read it. As an employee at the Biola bookstore (what memories!), I figured I…
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Theological Dislocation and the Biblical Manhood Movement
Read more: Theological Dislocation and the Biblical Manhood MovementDisclaimer: After posting my initial critique of the biblical manhood movement last week, I received a number of responses. It appeared to at least one commenter that I was ungrateful for what the men I had critiqued were doing to help recover a vision for biblical manhood in the church. Before I delve into my…