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Mar 3 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Thank you, Rich.

Another endorser has retracted their endorsement of Josh's book.

He admits he endorsed it without reading the whole thing (quite a common practice) and he apologizes for that, and asks forgiveness, committing to doing better in the future.

I appreciate this.
The other retraction: @dennaepierre . I will add others as they come in.

@dennaepierre Here is @dennaepierre 's official statement:
We are still waiting to hear from:
Juli Slattery
@johnmarkcomer
@alberttate
@Jenpmichel

Do they stand behind Josh Butler's book which called male ejaculation an act of self-giving to women? And framed the problem with prostitution women SELLING sex, rather than men BUYING it?

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Mar 5
Today, @TGC announced that @butlerjosh, who wrote THAT article & book, won't be speaking at TGC2023 & is no longer a Keller Center fellow, claiming the book was published because they didn't have "better review systems." Have they misdiagnosed the problem?
thegospelcoalition.org/article/sex-wo…
I'm glad they apologized and asked for forgiveness. However, to ensure that this doesn't happen again we need to figure out why such an offensive & harmful work could be published in the first place. Is it simply because, as they state, their "review systems" weren't adequate?
That insinuates either that not enough people looked at the book (and if more people did it wouldn't have been published); or that the wrong people looked at the book (and if the right ones did they'd be okay).

Does this explanation hold water?
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Mar 5
Brett McCracken, in reviewing the movie Women Talking, says that, while it is good that the women escaped abuse, and while the movie does show them still believing, the movie is still suspect because the women embrace a "new religion."

Can I tell you about that "new religion"?
It is summed up perfectly by a woman who has been abused by her husband and raped by the men in her religious community.
After the women agree that they want a religion focused on love, not on abuse and control, she says she wants:

1. My children to be safe
2. To be steadfast in my faith
3. To think.

McCracken is concerned that this is a "new religion".
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Mar 4
This week, Twitter blew up because Josh Butler, who works at Tim Keller's brand new Center for Cultural Apologetics, wrote a horrible article about sex that was roundly criticized.

I believe the timing of Tim Keller's tweet here, in that context, is problematic and concerning.
When someone who is associated with a Center that bears your name writes a book that equates the Holy Spirit with semen and presents a man's climax as something sacrificial he does for his wife--and then the internet reacts in horror--the right posture is to apologize.
Instead, Keller is warning people against being quarrelsome.

However, that is not the only takeaway from this passage. Just six verses before the ones Keller quoted, Paul mentions Hymenaeus and Philetus by name as false teachers.
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Mar 3
Right now, @TGC is asking all of us to read the first chapter of Beautiful Union, rather than just the excerpt, so we get a fuller picture.

@butlerjosh , I'm asking you to put an end to this. If people start reading the rest, it will turn out even worse for you. Image
@TGC @butlerjosh There are so many things wrong with the rest too, including framing the problem with prostitution as SELLING sex rather than BUYING sex, again centering on men.
@TGC @butlerjosh You DO NOT want this conversation to continue over the weekend. You have a lot of introspection to do, and I'd be happy to have a conversation. But for your own sake, please ask them to take this down. Stop the madness. Admit you have learning to do.
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Mar 3
I believe that Josh Butler's book A Beautiful Union, which was excerpted by The Gospel Coalition yesterday, should be pulled. It is not a healthy view of sex. It is not a healthy view of God. It is not a healthy book.

However, I feel very deeply for Butler.
When I read the excerpts, I did not feel like he was a danger to women in the same way that I do when I read other problematic Christian marriage/sex books. He seems like a good guy who loves God, but who didn't see where his metaphors went too far & his perspective skewed.
He seems to be in such a male-dominated bubble that he didn't see how problematic it was to present sex as something which is so male centered that a man's orgasm is considered to be his sacrificial gift.

However--that wasn't his job to see.
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Mar 2
I'd like to address how I'm quoted in the first chapter of Josh Butler's book Beautiful Union--where the TGC article that caused a ruckus was taken from.

Though he quotes me talking about "the theology of the clitoris", it appears he misses the whole point of what I was saying. Image
The point, in the larger context of the quote he pulled, is that women's bodies are not necessarily designed for maximum pleasure from intercourse alone, because the clitoris is outside the vagina (though the clitoral roots travel up the vaginal wall).
While many women can & do orgasm through intercourse, most women in our study found other routes to orgasm more reliable. And this is how our bodies were made! For women to feel pleasure, men need to do things to bring us pleasure. Quick intercourse alone won't cut it (for most).
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