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Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

Marg Mowczko notes the 'them' in Exodus 15:21 is masculine — Miriam is singing to men, not just women.

Egalitarian pushback on the scope of Miriam's audience

Exodus 15:21 Miriam Marg Mowczko Exodus 15:21
Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

Women worship leaders: depends on whether the role becomes pastoral

Mike addresses women leading worship music.

worship leading pastoral worship music ministry
Mike Winger idea 2018-01-31

The papyri are pagan Egyptian funerary texts — specifically the 'Book of Breathings' — belonging to a man named Hor

What Egyptologists actually found the papyri to contain

Book of Abraham Joseph Smith Papyri Book of Breathings
Mike Winger idea 2018-10-24

Q&A: What makes a practice 'pagan' — the distinction between historical connection and current practice

Viewer question: is it wrong for Christians to practice pagan holidays?

Christmas Origins argument Paganism
Mike Winger idea 2018-11-28

Philostratus records four possible accounts of what happened to Apollonius at the end of his life: (1) no one saw him die because he deliberately sent Damus away, (2) he died in Ephesus tended by two maidservants, (3) he walked into the temple of Athena at Lindus and disappeared, (4) he walked into a Cretan temple at night, the dogs fawned on him, he loosened his bonds, and a chorus of maidens sang 'hasten to heaven.' None of these accounts is a death and resurrection.

resurrection ascension apologetics
Mike Winger idea 2019-05-08

Worship songs with questionable original contexts may be acceptable in personal use but congregational use requires sensitivity to the consciences of all present

Response to question about whether it is okay to sing a song that in its original context is questionable but which people would interpret as worship to God

conscience stumbling block worship music
Mike Winger idea 2019-06-19

Mythicists must composite multiple figures (Dionysus, Horus, Asclepius, Apollonius, Hercules) to approximate Jesus — historians reject this method

Exposing the composite methodology of Jesus-myth parallels

Apollonius of Tyana Jesus mythicism historicity of Jesus