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Rape in Marriage and the Church
Growing up in various Protestant churches, I never heard one sermon on rape in marriage. Those churches put a lot of emphasis on avoiding sex before marriage, but once you were married, supposedly everything was fair game. Even under US law, courts did not recognize marital rape as a crime until the 1970s. Yet any…
God is Female, Too
When I was growing up, the churches that my family attended NEVER used feminine pronouns for God. Of course, there was the occasional sermon about how God has feminine attributes (God gathers people like “a hen gathers her chicks,” Matthew 23:37). But the discussion would go nowhere beyond a brief discussion of that passage. The…
Do Children Absorb the Spiritual Condition of their Mothers?
I decided to write this article because I have spent time searching the internet for information on this topic and I could not find anything. My thought is that children absorb the spiritual condition of their mothers. The reason I think this is because throughout the stages of my spiritual journey, I have realized that…
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