Author Archives: Joe Ginder

Notes for Hot Topics – Sex and Gender

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Joe Ginder

These are notes that may be of interest to those who have heard my message for June 4, 2023 in the hot topics series. In this message I address the topics of biological sex, gender identity, and sexuality. I referred to … Continue reading →

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Notes for Hot Topics – Approaches of Various Churches to LGBTQ+ Issues

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Joe Ginder

These are notes that may be of interest to those who have heard my message for May 28, 2023 in the hot topics series. It addressed some approaches of various churches to LGBTQ+ issues in church life. For convenient access, … Continue reading →

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Notes for Hot Topics – The Bible and Sex

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Joe Ginder

This weeks message is on the Bible and Sex. Here are links to some of the resources that I used and that you may be interested in pursuing for more information. Matthew Vines is a well-known gay Christian activist and … Continue reading →

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Edward J. Carnell on Fundamentalism

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Joe Ginder

In his book The Case for Orthodox Theology, Edward J. Carnell commented on the difference between orthodox Christianity and fundamentalism, and identified tendencies of fundamentalism of any stripe. I am reminded of these characteristics of fundamentalism in the context of … Continue reading →

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About “Breath Prayers”

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Joe Ginder

Have you ever heard of breath prayers”? They have a long history. You may recall a series a couple of years ago in which I mentioned the “Jesus Prayer”. Anyway, Sarah Bessey recently published some breath prayers with brief instruction … Continue reading →

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Tuchman’s Law

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Joe Ginder

I (finally) read Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”. I received it in hard cover decades ago as a gift from my Uncle Joseph Pike and it has been on my stack of books to read “soon” … Continue reading →

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A Podcast episode on Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay!

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Joe Ginder

The Rest is History podcast had a recent episode over-enthusiastically entitled The First Abolitionist covering the life and abolitionist work of Quaker Benjamin Lay. Lay set out to convince Quakers in the Americas that slavery was a great evil back … Continue reading →

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A new podcast from The Atlantic

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Joe Ginder

I listened to a new podcast from The Atlantic recently called Holy Week. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, just before Holy Week of 1968 leading up to Easter on April 14 that year. The podcast … Continue reading →

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On Women in the Church and in Marriage

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Joe Ginder

In the past I wrote a series of posts considering biblical teaching on women in the church and in marriage. Several people have asked me about this recently so I thought I’d make the posts easy to find by adding … Continue reading →

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Notes for the Hot Topics – Racism Message/Podcast

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Joe Ginder

In the Hot Topics – Racism message I referred to an episode of Brandon Cook’s Naming the Real podcast. Here is a link to A Conversation with Dr. Alex Gee: Race, Trauma, and What “Woke” Actually Means.

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