Here is where the early church met according to the New Testament: Location Scripture References Notes Private Homes Acts 1:13-14, 2:46, 5:42, 8:3, 10:22-27, 12:12, 16:15, 16:32 16:40, 18:7, 20:8, 20:20; Romans 16:5; 1 Corinthians 16:19; Colossians 4:15; Philemon 1:2 Believers met in homes for teaching, fellowship, and breaking bread. …
AIdolatry
Recently commenter Liz posted something about Andrew Tate. Here is a related essay on Andrew Tate and the Manosphere. I’ve noted for a couple years now that the Manosphere is largely leftist. Bruce Charlton has noted the same thing. The sole apparent exception is its “right-wing,” regressive, sexist views on women. …
Two independent essays were written at the same time. One by myself, and one by Bruce Charlton. Take the time to read them both. First is my essay (with some edits): Second is Bruce Charlton’s essay: Faith in Christ is a focus on what is good, what is positive. It …
The reality is that I’m just here to ruminate on issues. I’d like to debate, but this is an unrealistic expectation: So, instead, I am here just to spend time thinking deeply about issues, mulling them over. There is good reason for this. Consider the short essay here:
The Manosphere suffers from idealism. It thinks that “if only people just…” that all the problems with dating and marriage would just disappear. In “Is F. Roger Devlin Back?” we examined this concept indirectly: “If only top-tier men would just stop taking all the good women.” “If only women would …
I last wrote about F. Roger Devlin in “Hypergamy and the Early Manosphere.” I didn’t find his pseudonymous Magnum Opus to be particularly amazing, to put it mildly. Well, Devlin (or someone claiming to be the person claiming to be Devlin) is back…. on Substack. So I thought I’d delve …
This is the fifth in a five-part series on head coverings. See the index here. We’re going to conclude this series by responding to the objections raised in Dominic Bnonn Tennant’s S1E9 podcast. There is no transcript and manual transcriptions are time consuming and error-prone—their New Zealand accent is sometimes hard …
This is the fourth in a five-part series on head coverings. See the index here. Now that we’ve examined a few of the verses in depth in Part 3, let’s go over 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 in a linear fashion. But let’s keep in mind that the passage is structured in …