Wordgazer's Words

It's Easter week, and I'm thinking about gardens. My own garden is full of tulips and daffodils that are starting to fade now, but...

Professor  Denny Burk , on his well-known blog espousing a hierarchical view of male-female relations in Christianity, recently wrote a rebu...

So far on this blog I have addressed nearly every Bible verse used to restrict women or keep them under male authority-- except 1 Corinthian...

In Part 3 we did the first half of Step Five of my analysis: an examination of the meaning of the original Greek words and grammar. Finally,...

This series continues here with Step 5: Determine the most likely meaning of the passage in question, with a view towards the meaning of the...

Part 2 of my analysis of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 focuses on Step 4 of a five-step process that takes literary and historical context into account ...

This is an example of the method I think is most likely to render an understanding of a particular passage of the Bible, which is most likel...

My life flows on in endless song: Above earth's lamentation, I catch the sweet, tho' far-off hymn That hails a new creation. Thr...