Category: christianity

Is Egalitarianism Prescriptive or Descriptive?

ByRachel January 22, 2015 2 Comments
In all our discussions of egalitarianism vs. complementarianism here at Observational Ginger, very important questions occasionally arise from readers. My oldest childhood friend inspired today’s topic with a question she asked long ago. My answer then was dreadfully inadequate, and since it’s a common question anyway, I thought I’d take a blog post to soothe everyone’s curiosity. (With...

Blessed Are Those Who Don’t Need No Therapy–and other things Jesus never said.

ByRachel August 14, 2014 0 Comments
I'm not pulling punches on this one. I was incredibly sad to see Robin Williams go this week. It's even more terrible and tragic that his death came at his own hand. And it's even worse that some people called him a coward, or belittled his supposed lack of willpower in powering through life. I'd like to see some of these people spend 63 years in constant mental pain and then see who's the...

Heresy According to Twitter

ByRachel May 16, 2014 0 Comments
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Twitter is the worst medium for discussing controversial subject matter.The character limitations are too short to allow complexity of thought, but just long enough to tempt you into believing you can communicate complexity. The result is snappy, pithy sound bites that usually offend and almost never contain the nuance and concessions required to...

How the Accidental Complementarian confused the bejeebers out of me today!

ByRachel April 24, 2014 5 Comments
I think this will be my last egalitarian post for awhile, unless some unforeseen blogosphere emergency arises. Starting tomorrow I’d like to switch back to pleasanter topics. But I discovered an article about an accidental complementarian over at Her.Meneutics and was so baffled by it that I had to write a post just to put my thoughts in order. This blog is becoming like therapy for me.It...

The World Vision Gay Marriage Kerfuffle

ByRachel April 7, 2014 2 Comments
I never, ever pass up a chance to use the word "kerfuffle." Expect to see it much more on this blog.Ahem. I was going to write something about the World Vision KERFUFFLE over gay marriage, but one of my brilliant fellow bloggers has already said everything that I want to say. Except she said it better than I could have. In fact, she helped me understand my own thoughts on the matter, for which...