This Week in Word from the Bird
Posts for 13-18 Feb
Monday: Story of My Books # 20 - Philippians (Free Sign-Ups)
Book # 20 was a commentary on Philippians co-authored with my brilliant and bodacious brother Nijay Gupta in the New Cambridge Bible Commentary series.
Tuesday: Is God Male? Sane Reflections on a Crazy Debate (Free Sign-Ups)
The Christian internet went BESERK this week with reports that the Church of England was going to consider the use of gender-neutral terms for God. The context to think about God and gender is not culture wars over masculinity, but the catholic and orthodox tradition.
Wednesday: Three Things that Will Make You Think (Free Sign-Ups)
Three things on academic freedom, energy policy, and 1-2 Thessalonians.
Friday: 1 Tim 2:11-15 - Seven Crucial Questions (Paid Subscribers)
I try to answer Preston Sprinkle’s seven questions about 1 Tim 2:11-15.
On Friday, I think it might be valuable to include v.8-10 of 1 Timothy 2 where Paul asks men to raise their hands in prayer which few Presbyterians, Like me,or good solid Anglicans, like you, rarely do except to bless. Women are also forbidden to go to hairstylists, buy jewellery ( I assume that includes their husbands or boyfriends at Valentines day buying them such) or shopping at fancy clothes shops. Since women are saved through childbirth v 15, it is surely shocking that ( christian husbands) men are hindering their wives salvation by using condoms and encouraging other forms of contraceptives!!. I look forward to Friday. Trevor