Showing posts with label gender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 August 2026

From Anguish Languish to English Language: Trains-lading debt Furry Tail avowed Beers into a Fairy Tale about Bears

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 It's been decades since I first posted Furry Tails to this blog, and since most of my readers are from countries other than the one in ...
Sunday, 9 February 2025

The Nude New Jews (and Jewesses)

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I have written earlier about nude baptism being the standard of the early church, and that the office of deaconess was orginially tied in w...
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Friday, 29 October 2021

Another life that wasn't wasted

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 “Wally” Funk wanted to be an astronaut. But in the 1950's, when boys hoping to get a toy space helmet for Christmas were building imagi...
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Sunday, 10 October 2021

A review of David Instone-Brewer's Bible Contexts Series - Chapter 20: Cain's "wife"

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Dr. David Instone-Brewer is an eminent Bible Scholar in England, one of the experts responsible for the last tranche of changes to the NIV....
Monday, 17 August 2020

Who are the false teachers in Acts 20:30?

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 As I posted earlier ( here , here , and here ), The Newer and Improveder International Version has a hard time being consistent with its tr...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Who are our neighbors?

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On my way through town the other day I noticed that several yards contained the same sign , with a message in Spanish, English, and Arabic. ...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016

A sister, a wife: Lingering patriarchy in the Newer and Improveder NIV

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It is well known that the major impetus behind the latest two revisions of the New International Version was egalitarian. Egalitarianism has...
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Friday, 7 October 2016

What is Transgender? A Societal Answer

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Earlier I started a series on the topic of Transgender, starting with the Linguistic definition , followed here by the Societal Definition, ...
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Monday, 2 May 2016

What is a transgender? A linguistic answer

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Chances are you are arriving at this blog as the result of an internet search. This isn't surprising, as the concept of transgender has ...
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Friday, 11 March 2016

Ken Miller Update

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Ken Miller has, like the dangerous criminal the US Government believes him to be, been ordered to a Medium Security federal prison (but in h...
Monday, 11 May 2015

The end of "Women and Children First?"

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"Women and Children First!" was the cry as the SS Titanic began to slip beneath the waves of the North Atlantic over one hundred y...
Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Another look at Sarah's three measures of flour

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Traffic has been pretty steady lately to this post on Sarah's gigantic tortilla recipe . I already updated it several times, so it's...
Thursday, 30 May 2013

Missing in Action: The NIV's Young Men in 1 Peter 5:5

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Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God re...
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Thursday, 20 September 2012

Hangin' with 'the brothers'--The NIV and John 2:12

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As I've mentioned before in this series on translation , there is a glaring exception to the NNIV's general policy of using search-...
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Monday, 14 November 2011

Brothers in the hood: Racism in Romans 9:3-4. NIV

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I have earlier defined racism as: The belief that one's own race is superior to all others, and that with that superiority come cert...
Thursday, 1 September 2011

MEN at war

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"The Government of India have caused this tablet to be erected to the memory of the twenty one non-commissioned officers and men of th...
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011

A review of Benjamin Titus Robert's book "Ordaining Women"

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When a book released in 1891 is still in print almost 120 years later, one would expect it to offer timeless truths on the topic. Indeed, in...
Friday, 12 August 2011

The New Feminist People's Collective

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Who died in Afghanistan on August 12th, 2011? According to most news reports, it was "Eight NATO troops." A few news services re...
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Monday, 8 August 2011

How to run afoul of the Patriot Act by doing absolutely nothing for 20 years

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — According to the federal government, two sisters in rural Kentucky do not exist. Raechel Colleen Schultz and her s...
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

One giant leap--for gender sensitivity?

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It's been forty-two years since Humanity went to the Moon. When the first person stepped off the Eagle onto the Sea of Tranquility, the...