ClobberBlog | Mormonism, Evangelical Christianity

• I never, ever want to hear another quote from an early church father on women again, especially not Tertullian or Epiphanius.
• If Acts of Paul and Thecla isn’t true, it should be.
• I have a lot to learn about balancing graduate school and work and parenting.
• I wish this story from the Acts of Philip was in the Bible:

When I heard this, I hastened to leave, and going out, I saw at the gate a man and a woman, and the great dog called Cerberus with three mouths was tied to the gate with fiery chains. He was devouring the man and the woman and held their liver in his paws. And they, half-dead, were crying out: “Have mercy on us! Help!” But no one helped them. So I went to pull the dog away, but Michael told me: “Leave them, because they also blasphemed against the male presbyters (presbyteroi), female presbyters (presbytides), eunuchs, deacons, deaconesses (diakonissai), and virgins, by false accusations of impurity and adultery, and once they had done this, they encountered me, Michael, as well as Raphael and Uriel, and we gave them as feed to this dog until the great day of judgment.