Category Archives: Controversies

‘Year of Biblical Womanhood’ Review – Part 4

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Alastair Roberts

After considerable delay over the Christmas and New Year period, this is the fourth part of the podcast review and discussion of Rachel Held Evans’s A Year of Biblical Womanhood, in which we discuss the final three chapters of the … Continue reading →

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Steven Wedgeworth and Peter Escalante on the Two Kingdoms and Natural Law Debate

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Things will probably be rather quiet here over the next week. However, over on The Calvinist International there is a vigorous discussion of the subject of natural law and two kingdoms theology. You might want to take a look. Opposite the … Continue reading →

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‘Year of Biblical Womanhood’ Review – Part 3

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Welcome to the third part of the review of Rachel Held Evans’s A Year of Biblical Womanhood, within which we engage with chapters 7-9 of the book, following on from part 1 and part 2. Listen here! Listen to the other … Continue reading →

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Triggering and the Triggered in the American Conservative and some further thoughts

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Visits to this blog have received something of a bump over the last couple of days, as both Steve Sailer and the American Conservative linked to a post of mine from a few months ago – On Triggering and the Triggered, … Continue reading →

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‘Year of Biblical Womanhood’ Review – Part 2

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

This is the second part of the review of Rachel Held Evans’s A Year of Biblical Womanhood, within which we engage with chapters 4-6 of the book. It follows on from the themes discussed in the first review here. You … Continue reading →

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‘Year of Biblical Womanhood’ Review – Part 1

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

I have read several books since starting my book reviewing experiment, but this is the first review that I will be posting. Indeed, to my knowledge this is my first ever experiment with audio on this blog. I am not … Continue reading →

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On Triggering and the Triggered, Part 4

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Within this series of posts I am commenting on the dynamics of many heated online and offline debates and arguments. These thoughts were occasioned by the recent brouhaha surrounding a quotation from Pastor Douglas Wilson on Jared Wilson’s blog, which … Continue reading →

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On Triggering and the Triggered, Part 3

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Within this post I will continue my analysis of the debate surrounding the words of Pastor Douglas Wilson’s that Jared Wilson posted over a week ago. I have already blogged twice on the subject – here and here. Both of … Continue reading →

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On Triggering and the Triggered, Part 2

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

In my previous post, I dealt with the controversy that had developed around Jared Wilson’s post: ‘The Polluted Waters of 50 Shades of Grey, Etc.’ and the quoted comments from Pastor Douglas Wilson within it. Since writing that post, Jared … Continue reading →

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On Triggering and the Triggered, Part 1

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

A few days Jared Wilson unwittingly started a firestorm. He posted on the subject of the recent erotic fiction bestseller, Fifty Shades of Grey, arguing that the book represented a sinful distortion of the God-honouring form of authority/submission in marriage. … Continue reading →

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