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March 2023

March 28, 2023

Why Egalitarianism Hasn’t Persuaded Me (Yet?)

I'm a complementarian who set out to understand the other side. Here's why the egalitarian...

March 07, 2023

4 Egalitarian Arguments I Found Persuasive

I'm a complementarian who decided to listen to the other side. Here's four egalitarian arguments...

January 2023

January 17, 2023

We’ve Misread a Key Verse About Sexual Purity

Does 1 Corinthians 6:18 teach that only sexual immorality is a sin "against the body"?...

January 03, 2023

What Does “Sexual Purity” Even Mean, Anyway?

We can't understand "sexual purity" in scripture without understanding the biblical ideas of clean, unclean,...

December 2022

December 20, 2022

How Ruth and Boaz Represent God’s Love

The book of Ruth wants us to see God's love reflected in the kindness of...

December 13, 2022

Explaining Ruth, Boaz, and the Threshing Floor

The threshing floor scene in Ruth is strange to modern readers. But the author gives...

December 06, 2022

Pre-marital Sex Doesn’t Reflect Gospel Love

The Bible opposes sex outside of marriage because it doesn't reflect God's redemptive, unconditional, covenant...

November 2022

November 21, 2022

How the Gospel Should Shape our Sex Lives

A biblical vision of romance sees sex as an opportunity to display the redemptive love...

November 15, 2022

Purity Culture’s False Promises

Purity culture promised marriage, family, and great sex to those who practiced abstinence. And then...

November 10, 2022

3 Reasons Sexual Compatibility is a Bad Idea

Will "sexual compatibility" lead to long-term relational bliss? Or does it offer false hope that...

November 07, 2022

For Christians, Adoption Reflects the Gospel

The Bible often uses the idea of adoption to describe God's love. Adoption is therefore...

November 01, 2022

How the Argument for Premarital Sex Has Changed

Secular culture used to say premarital sex was fun. Now, culture says it's a wise...

October 2022

October 25, 2022

Did God Give Christianity a “Masculine Feel”?

It's been 10 years since John Piper said that God has given Christianity a "masculine...

October 18, 2022

Sex Abuse in Paradise: 5 Lessons for the Church

In the early 2000s, a sexual abuse scandal rattled a tiny island community in the...

October 11, 2022

Purity Culture, Shame, and the Gospel

Purity culture addressed sexual sin in terms of shame. Overcoming it requires a gospel that's...

October 04, 2022

Modesty is About Pride, Not Sex

We often use modest to mean "not sexually provocative." But in scripture, modesty means humility....

September 2022

September 27, 2022

When Jesus Broke the Billy Graham Rule

Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well is often assumed to be purely...

August 2022

August 30, 2022

Is Virginity Biblical?

What if we take virginity more seriously than scripture? It's obvious that the Bible recognizes...

August 23, 2022

Purity Culture and the Logic of Virginity

There's been a lot of criticism of purity culture in the last few years. But...