Thoughts from My Corner of the World
Image from National Catholic Reporter, July 13, 2019. Artifacts show early church women serving as clergy. "What's a Woman of Grace Doing in the Priesthood" presented at Central Christian College of the Bible, April 5, 2018. In Part 1 I discussed the new identity given to the early church after becoming dispersed due to the persecution... Continue Reading →
STILL A LACK OF CONSENSUS Biblical scholars have yet to agree on what actually took place in the church at Ephesus that motivated Paul to write his first letter to Timothy. What issues or false teachings did Paul address? Since Paul did not state the problem clearly many speculate about the trouble in Ephesus. In... Continue Reading →
HAVE WE LOST OUR WAY? In “Cherry-Picking & Breadcrumbs, Part 1,” available here, I claimed that using a cherry-picking methodology to study through the letters of Timothy and Titus – mis/identified as church-manuals centuries ago – in order to solve the women-in-leadership issues in the church is undoubtedly one of the reasons we are unable... Continue Reading →
HOW “CHERRY-PICKING” MISSES PAUL’S MESSAGE IN 1 TIMOTHY Ever since the early 1700s three short books in the Bible – 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus – have been classified as Pastoral Epistles (PE), with 1 Timothy relied upon as the premier church manual for churches everywhere. Is this a misclassification that obscures Paul's message... Continue Reading →