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Thursday 24th November 2022Abusive attitudes and beliefs aren’t built overnight, they’re not the result of one faulty doctrine or one bad preacher. It’s more complicated than that. Our ideas may seem good in principle but when applied to an abusive situation can be harmful. It can be just a small part of a teaching that’s …
21st November 2022 In an upper room a bunch of men cowered. These weren’t namby pamby men, they were a group of some of the toughest guys of their time, labourers, fishermen, insurrectionists, and reformed criminals. They weren’t averse to conflict and they’d lived the last three years on the road. Yet they hid, fearful. …
Thursday 17th November 2022 I almost didn’t write this post. When we’re talking about theology that creates abusive attitudes complimentarianism- the notion that God gives men and women different roles, seems so obvious it’s hardly worth discussing. I’m also convinced that, men in particular who believe that women should have a different role to them …
Thursday 3rd November 2022 In my last post in this series I talked about the Christian image of a violent God, and how that provides justification for male violence.Not content with portraying God as violent, some of our theology also portrays God as coercive.If the church is the bride of Christ, then Christ is a …
Thursday 27th October 2022 “Til on that cross, as Jesus diedThe wrath of God, was satisfiedFor every sin, on him was laidHere in the death of Christ I live.” (from In Christ Alone by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend) I love belting out that anthemic hymn, I’ve always thought it sounds like the theme tune …