This issue encourages all of us to keep considering how culturally bound our readings of Scripture may be and whether they are in actuality quenching the movement of the Holy Spirit or empowering the full body of Christ.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Editor's Reflections
  by WILLIAM DAVID SPENCER 
• Does the New Testament Name Only Men as Local Church Officers?
  by PHILIP B. PAYNE
• A Historian Looks at 1 Timothy 2:11–14
  by J. G. BROWN  
• The Orthodox Doctrine of the Trinity
  by KEVIN GILES
• BOOK REVIEW: Gayle Haggard’s Why I Stayed
  by ARBUTUS LICKTI SIDER 
• BOOK REVIEW: Caroline Simon’s Bringing Sex into Focus: The Quest for Sexual Integrity
  by MEGAN K. DeFRANZA 
• BOOK REVIEW: Marie Noël Keller’s Prisca and Aquila: Paul’s Co-workers in Christ Jesus and Joan Cecelia Campbell’s Phoebe: Patron and Emissary
  by   BEULAH WOOD
• POEM: "Prisca and Aquila"
  by WILLIAM DAVID SPENCER