by Owen Strachan Is it a practical requirement for young evangelical men to refer to their wives in public as “hot,” or, to up the ante, “smoking hot”? Some might think it is. Mary Demuth recently wrote a noteworthy piece at the Her.meneutics blog interacting with this lingo. The piece got a great deal of...

  By Jasmine Baucham I stared at the sheet of paper in front of me, shifting nervously in my seat. The other questions were easy enough to answer: name, family situation, how I came to hear about this place, work history, education, interests. But that last question, “What are your life goals?” made me cringe inwardly....

By Jessica Thompson Recently I was selling books at a conference when a young, sweet girl bought a copy of my mom’s book Helper by Design. She commented that she has read several books about being a wife and is going to be married in just a couple months. She then said what every single...

By Kyle Worley The moment I walked into the dorms, I was greeted by a barely clothed 19-year-old guy with an Xbox controller in his hand. He looked at me and asked, “You play Halo?” So began my undergraduate degree at a Baptist university. I had come to study the Bible and philosophy, but it...

By David Schrock When Paul speaks in Titus 2:1 about sound doctrine, he immediately turns to relationships. Rather than expatiating a systematic theology, Paul says that theology is worked out in the context of distinctly masculine and feminine roles, in youthful and elderly stages of life, and in varying spheres of leadership and influence (i.e....

This article has been reprinted from Faith & Mission, Fall 1996, with permission from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. INTRODUCTION Scripture teaches about the uniqueness of men and women. While created in the image of God with equality of worth and value, men and women are different by design and function. Gender differences are apparent physically...