Interview with Rick Hove Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with Rick Hove, Executive Director of Faculty Commons, Cru. Rick has a wonderful ministry engaging college students and also serves as an elder at Chapel Hill Bible Church. In this interview, we cover a range of topics including the final… Read More
The Household of God
The Household Motif in the Letters to Timothy and Titus In recent years, I’ve wrestled with various questions related to men and women in ministry and other church-related topics. As I’ve done so, I’ve increasingly come to realize that ecclesiology is often where it’s at. That is, as I try to adjudicate a question or… Read More
The Proverbs 31 Woman
Who is the epic woman of Proverbs 31? It has been said that she possibly could be Ruth, King David’s grandmother. More likely, though, she is an ideal woman—a picture of a perfect type of woman—not an actual person. She is one of four fictional women in the book of Proverbs that are upheld as… Read More
Queen Esther
It is very instructive to read through the book of Esther with special attention to key relationships in the story. Our goal is to glean from the story how relationships matter. In chapter 5, we are entering the peak of the action of the story where Esther’s relationship with King Xerxes has the potential of… Read More
Does the Bible Reflect a Patriarchal Bias?
For many decades, feminists have characterized the Old Testament’s teaching on gender roles in terms of patriarchy, the control and domination of the father in exercising an authoritative, if not oppressive or even abusive, rule over his wife and family. What is more, feminists have often alleged that the Bible is laced with a patriarchal… Read More