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This is a guest post by Christy Hemphill from BioLogos about some of the wrong ways that complementarians utilize/sexualize the household code in Ephesians 5. Ephesians 5 is a hot topic at the moment, thanks to the controversy over a book excerpt posted and then removed from The Gospel Coalition website on March 1. As a woman who spent four decades either in or adjacent to soft complementarian spaces, I have seen Ephesians 5:22-33 referenced more than any other passage to try to teach me things the Bible doesn’t really say about men, women and marriage.

Source: Cottonbro/PexelsListen to the audio version here: It happens to all of us— nearly every parent has a moment when they say or do something and wonder “Am I turning into my mother/father?!?” Particularly in times of stress or overwhelm, it is very common to default to parenting in the same way your parents did. For some parents— those who don't want to repeat the mistakes of their own parents, this experience is beyond frustrating and they may feel desperate for any way to break this generational cycle.

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Hey, hopeful romantic! You haven’t heard from me for a few weeks because I’ve been on vacation in Europe. My boyfriend and I attended a wedding in Poland, and we’re lucky enough to be able to extend our trip into more venturing. But now I’m back, and I want to talk about a question I always get: how can someone become more emotionally available? Let’s talk about it! If you missed the newsletter where I wrote about how to tell if you’re emotionally unavailable, you can read it here.

I often hear agency talked about as if it’s an inherent trait: Either someone has it or they don’t -- in which case, too bad, they’re doomed to a life in the minor leagues. This hasn’t been my experience. Over the years, as I’ve gradually grown dumber relative to my peers through a combination of aging and making smarter friends, one of the main ways I’ve compensated has been through dialing up my agency, which I think of as something like “manifest determination to make things happen.

Imagine you tank the UK economy, deny you did so (even though EVERYONE WAS THERE) and are allowed to just pretend it never happened. Imagine you incite a riot to overthrow US democracy and people still want you as president. Imagine you buy one of the most effective and influential social-media platforms in the world and turn it into a racist, misogynistic, homophobic and violent dumpster-fire that has real-world consequences for democracy – and yet people still treat you as a genius.

I love to sleep in, so every late morning I wake up to updates from a group text where my friends share their NYT Connections scores. I generally do pretty well on Connections, though sometimes I do miss a couple guesses and end up with a “Phew!” score. It’s commonplace to see people complaining about the daily game, crafted by Wyna Liu, because of the hard to figure out categories for the purple row (usually the hardest to figure out).

Sir Roger Scruton famously said “Put usefulness first, and you lose it. Put beauty first, and what you do will be useful forever. It turns out, nothing is more useful than the useless.” Which is so obviously true that for us modern people it comes across as so paradoxical as to border on parody. So let me nail this to my mast before continuing with the details: If you want something to last a thousand years it has to be beautiful.

Hey there! I’m Srebalaji. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to level up your game in Git. Recently, there are many suggestions about renaming the default branch master to some other name. This was mainly due to the master-slave metaphor that some people are talking about. There is evidence that states it was intended to mention master-copy or master recording. And it is not intended to master-slave.