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of that my husband who grew up in a liturgical church would add some balance to some of these ideas by saying that the spirit of man and human nature usually give us plenty of cause and a means of explaining most problems we often don t need any supernatural creatures to serve as our scapegoats job said that man was made for trouble as my clock approaches midnight on october 30 th i found myself thinking about the many kinds of would be ghosts we face in life i like the following description that henrik ibsen offers in his 1881 play better than most ideas a quote from ghosts i am half inclined to think we are all ghosts it is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind they are not actually alive in us but there they are dormant all the same and we can never be rid of them whenever i take up a newspaper and read it i fancy i see ghosts creeping between the lines there must be ghosts all over the world they must be as countless as the grains of the sands it seems to me and we are so miserably afraid of the light all of us may we find all the courage strength support and hope that we all need to help us step into the light tweet posted by cynthia kunsman saturday october 28 2023 always growing the more things change the more they seem to stay the same a good life of growth always requires commitment courage discernment honesty and hard work from a post originally published in january of 2016 tweet posted by cynthia kunsman tuesday july 4 2023 a pause for respite and recollection i fully intended to delve right back into writing about bruce ware s infamous 2008 sermon at denton bible church when i returned from a short break away from home with my husband we left for it a few hours after i put the previous post online so very focused on the many things yet to say about it all and why it s still important had it not been for the little getaway i d likely write every day but a remarkable thing happened we drove to the lower florida keys where i found a most affordable place to stay on a docked houseboat it was beautiful there and felt very private it was so nice to have a kitchen but the best thing was the outdoor deck that opened up onto the water it also looked out over a patch of many mangroves the water inches from where we sat inside in the coolness of air conditoning we could still enjoy the view through the patio doors while seated snugly on the sofa on the first night my husband and i awakened in the still of the night as we usually do and have done so for most of our 33 years together we usually spend at least twenty minutes in the middle of most nights talking about obscure and fascinating things like the nerd geeks that we are and then we go back to sleep on the good nights we jokingly call it our liguis obscurus sitting out on the deck in the middle of the night inches away from the still watching the calm water filled us with awe wonder and gratitude to share such beauty though we didn t see any dolphins or manatees swim by it was still amazing to think they might even with the lights from the marina and the many boats i could still see the stars in the clear sky most of the world slept and we sat and watched the stars in the sky circling over us it always makes me think of the genesis creation account and i imagine that i can sense the spirit of god hovering over the surface of the deep though it was still that night the surface of the water still seemed to emanate the energy of life i felt a new and different sense of being kept by god who neither slumbers nor sleeps we were awake to witness it and drink it in we then stayed two nights in a nice hotel in a different town on the southern side of the keys looking out on a little bay like area facing the straights of florida though there was incidental light there too i awakened early on our last night there and watched jupiter rise over the eastern sky i could hear the hum of the air conditioner while out on the beautiful balcony while the world and my husband slept i regretted not bringing a scope that might have allowed me to see jupiter s moons because it was shining so brightly with an orange glint when it first made its debut i watched the lights on buildings on the other side of the inlet glisten and scintillate on the water like the stars did in the inky sky i was held i was kept i felt peaceful held above the water and under the heavens safe in god s holy presence as i enjoyed a moment of awe watching jupiter shine so brightly as she migrated up over the horizon and across the sky on the first day of summer i wasn t ready to leave that place of holiness when i returned and i haven t wanted to think about violence deception or cruelty i needed time to remember that amidst it all and even in our trials we are kept and held by god my name is inscribed on his palm my times are in his hands and i am held by him i ve also thought lately that people like bruce ware and his message are passing away like all of us i tend to fear with urgency to spare christian women from the harm that some suffer in the gender war when i see little change tim keller died only a few weeks ago time slips into the future us with it while our times rest in his hands this present world is passing away and a new time will come as we pass out of this life there will be new sermons and new victories there will be new still nights of awe and some with new terror new arrows different from these today will fly by day yet we are kept and held and borne up as god i m not yet done bathing in and exhaling after much needed rest in peace and joy i needed to remember so that tomorrow i will not forget tweet posted by cynthia kunsman sunday june 18 2023 following bruce ware s primrose path to domestic abuse part iii cbmw and bruce ware are no different than shiny happy people we ve considered when gender role evangelist bruce ware relied on cruelty to win ideological debates all s fair in christian love and culture war these days right some of that i understand in light of the dominating milieu that cbmw created to help them win their war we ve also considered some possible negative progressions and consequences that stem from his definition of women as the indirect image of god tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman saturday june 17 2023 following bruce ware s primrose path to domestic abuse part ii turing violence against women into god s gender justice read part i here wife beating became the last straw issue that drove me out of the shinyhappypeople church shpc i d once attended i had no idea who gothard was when we joined but i knew when we left over time i would learn that the ideology demanded that wives obediently submit with a quiet and gentle spirit to any maltreatment their husbands dished out the same went for sex too whatever whenever he wanted all marital discord be assigned to the wife as the root cause twife beating always be considered a breach of duty or neglect on the part of the wife wives just let love cover her husband s sin against her so that her properly yielded submission could magically convict cure rehabilitate her husband that s the wonder working power of submission if you get it right if you didn t get results you weren t doing it right husbands were never held accountable because if a wife does her job right sex and submission and supper the bible per bill gothard guarantees the system to work tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman following bruce ware s primrose path to domestic abuse part i ideas that fed those shiny happy people when the reporter peter smith contacted me to ask questions about my relationships with bruce ware and russell moore and my thoughts about them i told him that i had no reason to believe that either of them had any clue about who i was earlier that year i d earned the badge of honor through a dishonest public denouncement for criticizing their teachings in a lecture earlier in 2008 he assured me that both men knew exactly who i was sharing deeply personal insults about me that were too derogatory for him to repeat he was sure that one of them knew me in real life because of the nature of his comments i assured him i d only ever reviewed their teachings and had never met either man tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman labels shinyhappypeople abuse domestic cbmw gothard thursday june 15 2023 concerning shiny happy people two weeks later i started watching the amazon docuseries about the duggar family entitled shiny happy people two weeks ago today i could not get through the second episode in one sitting wept and had to come bad to it the next day i then spent the better part of the next two days bursting into tears multiple times and i could barely function because of it tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman labels shinyhappypeople abuse domestic gothard second generation adults monday april 3 2023 mess with the bull and you ll get the horns the dominating behavioral context of cbmw complementarianism patriarchy is about power on the 15 th anniversary of my cancelling thirty years ago i joined a quiverfull movement church without even knowing that there was such a thing because it seemed like a regular evangelical church young evangelical women today face even more pressure to conform to quiverfull standards than i did and i get frustrated that people think it s all about babies the lifestyle undoubtedly involves children but it focuses on ways of controlling people and circumstances i grieve today because i d hoped to be a better agent of more potent meaningful change tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman complicated forgiveness colliding with organizations that cancel you on the fifteenth anniversary of my cancelling a companion post to mess with the bulls and you ll get the horns the dominating behavioral context of cbmw i remember my exit counselor talking to me after a month to consider that many of the leaders in cults like the one i d left are trapped and bound in the system more deeply than i ever was i bristled at the suggestion at the time but in time it would help me get past the trauma and see my former leaders with compassion read more on this much misunderstood topic here tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman thursday march 16 2023 might social justice look like this i believe that god gave me the most precious and powerful gifts of kindness life liberty and love because they were so freely given to me i want to share that bounty and blessing with others we are fallible creatures in an unfair world and i want to comfort others with the same comfort that god showed to me through so many people christian and otherwise there is plenty of god s great love to go around for all of us tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman labels social justice monday march 13 2023 another non theobro christian scholar on social justice when i read the new 2022 frankfurt declaration last week i could not help but think back to this essay i read almost three years ago as i noted in an earlier post i am not a student of the areas of study that concern themselves with critical race theory so i am grateful that kelly hamren agreed to allow me to repost her commentary here she was homeschooled and went on to eventually become a graduate student at liberty university after completing her studies she served for eleven years in the english department at liberty moving from instructor to assistant professor she later earned a phd in literature and criticism from indiana university of pennsylvania tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman labels frankfurt declaration social justice theobros sunday march 12 2023 the piety of the theobros and the bully pulpit of 2022 frankfurt declaration a few days ago i took notice of a new term used to describe today s alpha males of calvinism theobros they re a special breed of new calvinist who spends a lot of time on twitter telling women men and the rest of us lesser life forms that we aren t the right kind of christian as if they are the new gnostics sometimes i feel betrayed because the late rc sproul sr s work helped me profoundly on my thirty three year long journey out of the cruel madness of word of faith little did i know that he was a rare example of loving grace and compassion amongst the larger group of new calvinists in both the media and in churches tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman labels frankfurt declaration social justice theobros saturday march 11 2023 the equivocation problem with social justice that the theobros make worse featuring rosato s harriet tubman mural most regular people understand the term social justice in terms of common vernacular in the us through the simple meaning of the words themselves in society especially in america our government aspires to grant each citizen rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness we ve spent our whole history working to make those liberties equally available to all her citizens to most people most christians included social justice means just that it is the aspiration to see all people in society treated fairly and justly unless someone s taken particular classes in college or read specific literature that offers a different definition most people understand these simple words in only that context tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman labels frankfurt declaration social justice theobros friday march 10 2023 answering scot mcknight s question what made josh butler s tgc article different this week i listened to two podcasts about the controversy that ensued concerning josh butler s book excerpt that appeared on the gospel coalition tgc website on march 1 a friend gave me a link to the preventing grace podcast claiming that they expressed some of the same ideas that i did asking that people would extend mercy to the author while i did not find butler s material to be that difficult in light of other teachings i became quite triggered by the hosts straw man mischaracterizations of butler s critics along with their claims that his writing was beautiful apparently we prudish small minded people who cry misogyny at every turn only look for material to use to destroy those with a different view the following day i listened to a podcast that posed questions i d already been thinking about because of my thoughts from the previous day tweet click here to continue reading posted by cynthia kunsman labels evangelical smut gender theobros older posts home subscribe to posts atom watchman fellowship s spiritual abuse profile click on the graphic for more info search this blog the best way to find content on undermuchgrace com links to important topics concerning 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