If you’ve been hurt in a Christian setting, you may know the moment. You finally say the hard thing out loud — what he did, what she said, what the leadership covered up — and the first response isn’t Are you okay? or Are you safe? It’s: “Have you forgiven them?” The question sounds holy. But it often works…

What Ecclesiastes 5 teaches about the difference between peace and a quiet conscience that has stopped talking We tend to treat a good night’s sleep as a moral report card. She sleeps like a baby — must have a clear conscience. He tosses all night — what is he carrying? But anyone who has lived near a…

I published a book this month. It is a hardcover with 120 pages, a table of contents, six chapters, and an index. Every one of those pages is blank, and I did that on purpose. The book is called The Biblical Case Against Women in Leadership: Read in Context. The joke is in the last three…

When people ask me where the Bible shows women leading, I do not start with an argument. I start with names. Here are five women Scripture places in positions of real authority. Look each one up and read the chapter around her, not only the verse. 1. Deborah, who led a nation Read: Judges 4…