I was so angry with this google blog - but have figured something out

I spent all afternoon on my next post, and all afternoon, the editor told me it was automatically saving every word as I went along. I had to stop to go hear my granddaughter's piano recital, but no problem, right? It was all saved. WRONG!! It was all gone when I got back, some crap about a form error. I think now that what happened might be that it was indeed saved on the site, but when the browser came back up, only the very beginning was in the form it had saved, and I killed what was on the blog server when I tried to save at that point, blah blah blah.

Well, I have realized from this that I am trying too hard to write a complete composition for each entry. This is the new millennium and I should just lighten up and write what I can, and when I run out of steam or time, just save it and let you all read it. It goes against my sense of literary content and good composition, but losing a whole afternoon's work and having to reconstruct it when I had been rolling so well is WAY more annoying. So think of it as more opportunities to jump in and comment. It's the Sesame Street approach to essay writing

Women's Place in the World, and in the Church

I want to undertake this ambitious subject because of discussions I have been having with a woman who is smart, independent, and sensitive to women's issues. Being a man, I find that I have not been nearly as sensitive as I always thought I was about the way some of our more glib brothers talk about God's intended design. So I intend to conduct the most thorough review of the Scriptures on this subject that I can manage, and I intend to write a series of posts as I go. Please come along and help me.

Let me say at the outset that my beliefs as to what the Bible says about women are probably more liberal than many, but there are some places where I am forced to draw the line as to how women can best fulfill their intended role in Creation, if I am to respect the authority of the Scriptures. I think this is a matter of entropy and not value. By that I mean that men and women are different enough, both by original design and as a consequence of the Fall, that their paths through this life have distinct differences. That said, I assert that every one of us, man or woman, has a unique path to follow through this life, and we are all sinners, all needing to receive the redemptive work of Christ's sacrifice on the cross, all equally valuable members of His body when we do. And so I hold the notion of women's equal value with men as one of the most important revelations that Christianity has given the  world.