Author: norman

  • Revisiting 1 Timothy 2

    Revisiting 1 Timothy 2

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    In this series: In the previous post in this series I laid out some hermeneutical basics regarding scripture. If you haven’t read that, go there first because if we do not start from an agreeable hermeneutic (method of interpretation), we won’t get very far. For this post, I want to start with 1 Timothy 2.…

  • Laughing Trap Wordplay

    Laughing Trap Wordplay

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    Came across an interesting translation yesterday in my M’Cheyne which led me down a rabbit hole looking into “wife-sister narratives” in Genesis. Not gonna get into that here; just wanted to look at Genesis 26:8 which renders in the NRSVUE as 8 When Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech of the Philistines looked…

  • Endurance with love

    Endurance with love

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    I was reading through the latter chapters of the Gospel of Matthew today as part of the M’Cheyne plan. Oftentimes I breeze through these sections because the passages are so familiar, but today something caught my interest. In Matthew 24, Jesus is responding to his disciples’ question and concern: “What will the sign be of…

  • Women and the church: an introduction

    Women and the church: an introduction

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    In this series: I’ve been thinking about writing a series of posts about why I came to reject the complementarian position on women in the church and embrace what aligns more closely with the egalitarian view. This post will just be an introduction and I’ll see where I go from here. A brief summary If…

  • Poggin: starting over

    Poggin: starting over

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    For the past eight or nine years, I’ve been using various iterations of software that I built for church use. It began as a quick and easy way to get lyrics on a screen without having to create a PowerPoint (that’s what many used at the time) and evolved into a database backed library of…

  • Sharing the gospel.

    Sharing the gospel.

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    I was recently engaged in what many would consider an “evangelistic” conversation” — one where I was speaking with another about the faith, life, belonging, and our common human condition. Our meet came about by chance. She describes herself as an “agnostic,” but is curious about life and what gives life meaning. I’m reflecting here…