Author: Krista Lyn White
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Discovering Biblical Equality
Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity without Hierarchy, edited by one of my favorite New Testament scholars, Gordon D. Fee. Read it. It just might answer some questions about those often abused, misused and wrongly applied “submission” and “silence” texts that don’t seem to fit other biblical accounts of female leadership (e.g. Deborah & Junia), the public…
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My Remarkable Encounter with Rafael Nadal
Yesterday, Rafael Nadal did something remarkable. He carried home the trophy from Roland-Garros for the 10th time. No other tennis player in the open era has won a single Grand Slam that many times. Not Roger Federer, not Serena Williams, not Martina Navratilova, not even Margaret Court. Anyway you look at it, it’s an achievement worthy…
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Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
I should have known. It was there in the title. It said beware. But I had to be headstrong. I had to go my own way and read Beware of Pity. Well, the truth be told, I didn’t actually read Beware of Pity. That might sound like an admission unworthy of a writer, but I did try. Perhaps…
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The Bible’s View of Women and Wrong Presuppositions
None of us come to a conversation clean. By clean I mean we don’t listen without making assumptions. Most forms of personal communication rely heavily on assumptions. They are those unspoken thoughts and ideas that are “between the lines.” Assumptions ease and expedite communication, if they are right. But if an assumption is wrong, then…
