“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along with it - fundamentally evil… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“Beyond the family or particular Christian tradition, how much effort do we make to consider what the Mennonites or the Episcopalians, the Baptists or the Pentecostals, the Methodists or the Presbyterians have to say to the rest of us out… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“As I look hard at the Bible, however, and at the two thousand years of church history since the Bible's completion, it seems evident… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively, but never… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.” — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“My recommendation instead, however, is that we do not surrender questions of value, whether absolute matters of truth, goodness, and beauty or relative judgment… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“Among those ways and thoughts of God, then, is the principle of accommodation. God works within human limitations - both individual and corporate -… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“Beyond the family or particular Christian tradition, how much effort do we make to consider what the Mennonites or the Episcopalians, the Baptists or… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
