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Denny Burk
An Egalitarian Gets Biblical
Rachel Held Evans is buy accutane online canada an egalitarian, and she wants to live according to the buy accutane online canada Bible for one year... just to see what it's like. Her aim is buy accutane online canada to follow all the commands of the Bible that are directed towards women. Among other things, this buy accutane online canada project will include "submitting" to buy accutane online canada her husband as Col 3:18 teaches. She invites everyone to follow along on her blog (http://rachelheldevans.com/) to buy accutane online canada track her progress. Thomas Nelson has agreed to publish a book in 2012 describing her year of living obediently. [Read the announcement of her project here: http://rachelheldevans.com/womanhood-announcement]
There is buy accutane online canada an irony in the description of her project. She says that buy accutane online canada she is going to obey the Bible's commands as "literally" as possible. She seems to be admitting that the "literal" interpretation of Col 3:18 involves following the buy accutane online canada leadership of her husband. That would seem to be a counterintuitive admission for buy accutane online canada such a committed egalitarian. Does she really mean to concede the buy accutane online canada literal interpretation of this pivotal text to complementarians?
In any case, it buy accutane online canada looks like the real aim of her experiment and book is buy accutane online canada to discredit complementarianism. The only problem is that she is not really trying out complementarianism. She's conflated Old Testament law with New Testament norms and buy accutane online canada has labelled it "living biblically." But no buy accutane online canada complementarian that I ever heard of would consider such a conflation as "living biblically." For that buy accutane online canada reason, this work looks to be more of an eccentricity than buy accutane online canada a contribution. I am sure it will make for an interesting book, but I am buy accutane online canada not hopeful that this project will move forward the evangelical conversation about the buy accutane online canada Bible's teaching on gender roles.
--Denny Burk
Moral Collapse at Ms. Magazine
For almost forty years, Ms. magazine has buy accutane online canada been the most famous voice of the feminist movement in print. Co-founded by Gloria Steinem in 1972, the buy accutane online canada magazine is stalwartly feminist, retaining the language and spirit of the buy accutane online canada feminism of the 1970s. In other words, Ms. is buy accutane online canada the voice of feminist ideological orthodoxy. And the demand for unrestricted abortion rights is buy accutane online canada at the center of that ideology.
That's what buy accutane online canada makes the Winter 2011 edition of the magazine so interesting-and so disturbing. The issue features an buy accutane online canada article by Madeline Wheeler entitled "Saving the Girl Child," which offers a report on "India's epidemic of female infanticide and sex-selection abortion" (Madeline Wheeler,"Saving the Girl Child," Ms. [Winter 2011]).
The appearance of that buy accutane online canada article does come as something of a surprise. After all, Ms., and buy accutane online canada the feminist movement it represents, insist that a woman must have buy accutane online canada the right to abort a pregnancy for any reason or for buy accutane online canada no reason. This claim, they have long insisted, is central to buy accutane online canada the very idea of reproductive freedom. So, what about sex-selection abortions-when it buy accutane online canada is female babies who are most commonly aborted? On this issue, Ms. seems to buy accutane online canada have found cause for feminist concern. Wheeler explains that Indian women "are under severe pressure to bear sons." She continues, "In fact, female infanticide and buy accutane online canada sex-selection abortion over the last two decades has led to a buy accutane online canada dearth of baby girls and an unnatural gender ratio." This dearth of baby girls is described as a "problem."
The article also reveals that buy accutane online canada even though sexselection abortions are illegal in India, they remain common. The arrival of sophisticated prenatal imaging technologies, such as the buy accutane online canada ultrasound, have allowed the identification of fetal gender, leading to the buy accutane online canada targeting of baby girls in societies like India and China, which are buy accutane online canada marked by a clear "son preference."
So far, so good. If anything, the buy accutane online canada article fails to indicate the full scale of the tragedy - but it buy accutane online canada also fails to describe "the problem" as tragic in any sense. In reality, the buy accutane online canada targeting of female babies by abortion and infanticide has meant over 100 million missing girls in India and buy accutane online canada China, as documented by The Economist earlier this year.
Madeline Wheeler does describe the "problem" of sex-selection abortions targeting girls, and then she writes, "Even worse, families unable to buy accutane online canada afford ultrasound procedures often resort to infanticide." She cited the buy accutane online canada report of filmmaker Nyna Pais-Caputi, who was told by the director of an buy accutane online canada orphanage that the facility was located on the shore of a buy accutane online canada lake in order "to encourage families to buy accutane online canada give their infant daughters up for adoption rather than drown them in the buy accutane online canada lake."
The article points with hope to buy accutane online canada a campaign led by the government. "Save the Girl Child" is an effort to "save girls." How? By addressing the morality of abortion? Of course not. Instead, the buy accutane online canada campaign will include fashion shows, special birthday cards for girls, doctors who buy accutane online canada will argue against sex-selection abortions, and "government schemes offering cash incentives to families to raise girls."
Wheeler ends her article by quoting filmmaker Nyna Pais-Caputi: "Women need to buy accutane online canada be seen s valuable, positive role models. People need to feel the buy accutane online canada magnitude of the problem."
On that buy accutane online canada statement, we can all agree. But the obvious question is this buy accutane online canada - has Ms. magazine felt anything even close to "the magnitude of the problem"?
Their feminist ideology does not even allow them to buy accutane online canada acknowledge that sex-selection abortions are perfectly legal in the United States, and buy accutane online canada that feminists have insisted that any woman has a right to buy accutane online canada an abortion at any time for any reason or for no buy accutane online canada stated reason at all. The pro-abortion ideology is so extreme that buy accutane online canada any opposition to the targeting of girls by sex-selection abortion is buy accutane online canada undermined by the movement's enthusiasm for unfettered abortion rights.
The moral bankruptcy of their situation is buy accutane online canada revealed by the tepid language employed in the article and the buy accutane online canada lack of moral outrage. But how can Ms. muster any genuine outrage about sexselection abortions in India when buy accutane online canada it has demanded unfettered abortion access in our own country? It cannot, and buy accutane online canada it does not. This monumental tragedy is described only as "the problem."
The moral collapse of their position is buy accutane online canada seen in the fact that this murderous rampage against female babies cannot be buy accutane online canada described in the language moral sanity demands. The only morally sane response to buy accutane online canada this tragedy is outrage against the killing of all babies - followed by the buy accutane online canada affirmation of the sanctity and dignity of every human life.
We can buy accutane online canada only pray that embarrassment overthis article might force some readers of Ms. magazine to buy accutane online canada rethink the entire question, for, as tepidly expressed in the closing words of the buy accutane online canada article, "People need to feel the magnitude of the problem."
-R. Albert Mohler
Post-feminist Regrets
Jennifer Moses thinks that buy accutane online canada sexual liberation did not deliver on its promise to deliver the buy accutane online canada good life. And now, the specter of past sexual exploits haunts post-feminist mothers who buy accutane online canada feel hypocritical for trying to lead their own children to buy accutane online canada practice some sexual restraint. In an OP-ED for The Wall Street Journal, she writes,
-It has buy accutane online canada to do with how conflicted my own generation of women is buy accutane online canada about our own past, when buy accutane online canada many of us behaved in ways that we now regret. A woman I know, with two mature daughters, said, "If I could do it again, I wouldn't even have buy accutane online canada slept with my own husband before marriage. Sex is the most powerful thing there is, and buy accutane online canada our generation, what did we know?"
We are buy accutane online canada the first moms in history to have grown up with widely available birth control, the buy accutane online canada first who didn't have buy accutane online canada to worry about getting knocked up. We were also the first not only to buy accutane online canada be free of old-fashioned fears about our reputations but actually pressured by our peers and buy accutane online canada the wider culture to find our true womanhood in the bedroom. Not all of us are buy accutane online canada former good-time girls now drowning in regret-I know women of my generation who buy accutane online canada waited until marriage-but that's certainly the norm among my peers.
So here we are, the buy accutane online canada feminist and postfeminist and postpill generation. We somehow survived our own teen and buy accutane online canada college years (except for those who didn't), and buy accutane online canada now, with the exception of some Mormons, evangelicals and Orthodox Jews, scads of us don't know how to buy accutane online canada teach our own sons and daughters not to give away their bodies so readily. We're embarrassed, and we don't want to be, God forbid, hypocrites.
Still, in my own circle of girlfriends, the buy accutane online canada desire to push back is strong. I don't know one of them who doesn't have buy accutane online canada feelings of lingering discomfort regarding her own sexual past. And not one woman I've ever asked about the subject has said that she wishes she'd "experimented" more ( Jennifer Moses, "Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?" The Wall Street Journal [March 19, 2011]. Online: http://online.wsj.com).-
The rest of the buy accutane online canada article is about how mothers of teenage girls might be able to buy accutane online canada make boundaries for their daughters-even though those very same mothers observed no buy accutane online canada boundaries when they were younger. But this article really isn't about boundaries. Nor is buy accutane online canada it really about parenting. I think this is about something deeper.
There is buy accutane online canada an entire generation of men and women mired in the regret of something they cannot undo. Sexual liberation was not nearly as liberating as it buy accutane online canada promised to be. "Liberation" inevitably leads to buy accutane online canada slavery to the baser instincts of the human condition. It shackles the buy accutane online canada human heart to its own vanity. Or, as the apostle Paul says it, "you are slaves of the one whom you obey" (Rom 6:16). Those who buy accutane online canada obey their lust eventually find it to be a very cruel master that buy accutane online canada leaves heartache and regret in its wake.
That is buy accutane online canada why the restlessness that these women feel is not an buy accutane online canada accident. God made us for his glory, and he has buy accutane online canada a purpose for our sexual lives (1 Cor 6:13, 20). When we ignore that purpose, we ignore the Creator's design, and buy accutane online canada that has consequences. That is why even among those who buy accutane online canada do not confess Christ or a Christian sexual ethic, there sometimes emerges an buy accutane online canada unexplainable urge to go back to that which they initially wished to buy accutane online canada be free from-the covenanted union of one man and one woman in marriage. There is buy accutane online canada more to Moses' article than meets the eye.
-Denny Burk
