This is just a note to let you guys know I’m still alive and kicking. A little while back I said that I would not be closing the blog as I moved into full-time pastoral service. But now it has been almost a month since I’ve written anything. My neglect has not been intentional, I’ve just been busy. Hopefully as I continue to adjust to my schedule I will again be able to make time for some blogging.

I am working with my church to get a church website up. Once that is done there will be a place for people to find my sermons and such as well as a brief devotional that goes with our weekly mailouts. The work for all of that will probably take a little while, however, so I don’t know when all of that will be available.

Piper has made public his views on the issue in a blog entry entitled Why a Woman Shouldn’t Run for Vice President, but Wise People May Still Vote for Her. Two quotes from the entry:

Therefore, I am not able to say that God only speaks to the role of men and women in home and church. If our roles are rooted in the way God created us as male and female, then these differences shape the way we live everywhere and all the time.

…a person with my view may very well vote for a woman to be President if the man running against her holds views and espouses policies that may, as far as we can see, do more harm to more people than we think would be done by electing a woman President and thus exalting a flawed pattern of womanhood. In my view, defending abortion is far worse sin for a man than serving as Vice President is for a woman.