Maybe we have had our heads screwed on exactly backwards on this! You've heard that statement or used it yourself before I bet when you came to some new realization that your thinking on a subject was 180 degrees out of whack, right? Well, I am suggesting here — no, I am saying very confidently… Continue reading A Radical New Way of Christian Marriage Counseling
Author: Jeff Crippen
I am the pastor of Christ Reformation Church in Tillamook, Oregon, arriving here in 1993. I have been a pastor since 1983 and was a police officer for 12 years before that. My wife and I have been married since 1971. Verla is a medical assistant at a local clinic and in our spare time we like to hunt, fish, and ride our motorcycle.
My experience with abuser-enabling misogyny in the church
To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." (Genesis 3:16) So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, (Proverbs 2:16) And as… Continue reading My experience with abuser-enabling misogyny in the church