New Warhorn Media post by Tim Bayly:
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Pastor @tbbayly thank you for this article. Truly helpful. Actually the timing could not have been more perfect.
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ā¦the captain is always demonstrating the quality of his leadership by whether he honors and responds with equanimity to subordinatesā appeal of his decisionsā¦Captains who are insecure in their authority respond in a brittle way to subordinates who approach them prefacing their second-guessing with some sort of respectful verbal deferenceā¦Such captains see authority and submission in black and white and shut down their subordinateās helpfulness.
Thanks for this, Tim. The ability to respond with equanimity to subordinatesā appeals of my decisions is something Iām bad at and am working on. By Godās grace it can be and is being developed. An analog signal in a digital mindā¦
Love,
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This is something you should make more of. āThe heresies that men leave are hated mostā (John Donne, via C.S. Lewis).
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And in our day the distinction must be made between a reformed feminist and a Reformed Feminist. 
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I am a coder. It is part of my work. Whenever you hear that from an IT person or a programmer or coder, it is pride. There is almost always ambiguity. Hard āguaranteesā or āproofsā are close to impossible if the code should do anything useful. This is mostly introduced by side-effects from lower layers, like the operating system, processor or peripherals. Notice that I havenāt mentioned networking yet. Or cryptography. Or symmetric multiprocessing (multiple cores).
I want to confirm your point, even the technical world isnāt what coders say it is.
Next time a coder tells you that just tell them this: God made the best code (the world was created and is sustained by his Word being executed). Sin corrupted it. Imagine your code being changed at runtime at random points in random ways. Thatās not even ambiguity, itās chaos.
This reminded me of movies that portray the same situation, like āHunt for Red Octoberā and āCrimson Tideā. I think that they teach valuable lessons in leadership even in the side characters like Scott Glenn in Red October.
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When I was in college studying computer science, part of the reason is because computers seemed much more predictable than people to me. When I realized how insane computers were I decided I might as well work with people. 
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Itās ironic that a woman so concerned with submission and headship would take it upon herself to rebuke the pastor. At least she could have pushed her husband to talk to you instead.
Our church faced a similar situation some years back when a woman constantly pushed from behind the scenes to have our pastor and the womanās Bible study teach that women should never do any work outside the home except out of dire financial necessity. Despite all her professed commitments to biblical submission, I suppose you wonāt be surprised to hear that this woman wore the pants at home. Our pastor pointed this out to her, but it fell on deaf ears.
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āEvery truth is accompanied by two equal and opposite errorsā.
Captains who are insecure in their authority respond in a brittle way to subordinates who approach them prefacing their second-guessing with some sort of respectful verbal deference such as āpermission to speak freely, sir?ā
I supervise a number of people in my office (a mix of civilian and military) and Iāll brag a little bit that I donāt have this problem. People like working for me. But the reason I donāt have this problem isnāt because Iām inherently so great; itās because I failed a lot and remember it. I remember what it was like to be dressed down for screwing up. I also put in years working for a few choice individuals who arrived to adulthood with all their high-school insecurities intact. I remember what a cruddy experience that was; it was like rolling the dice with an alcoholic parent.
Similarly I screwed up a lot in my marriage. That was harder to admit. Itās hard to look at your life and say āIām not very good at things.ā But by the grace (and only that) of the Holy Spirit I can look at my life and say yeah, Iām not very good at stuff. Iām not very good at loving or patience or listening or planning or working effectively. But thatās the awesome paradox; itās after being driven to that point of despairing honesty that the Holy Spirit showed me Christ, and in a way I canāt explain, imbued me with His life. Obviously everything isnāt resolved at once, but it puts it all on a completely new trajectory.
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āthey tend to be engineers or coders who are quite limited in their ability to understand nuanceā
My friend, nuance can be overrated. A case could probably be made that nuance has given us Revoice (and host of other nuanced issues rotting the Church.)
The proper use of ānuanceā is an issue that is ratherā¦ Nuanced. 
Yes, ānuanceā is often used as a cover for cowardice on issues that really are plain. But the improper use of something doesnāt invalidate itās proper use.
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Yep, but as Zak saysā¦
And for the issues that are really plain I am thankful for the technical people who scratch their head at the nuance, scratch their head and say, āSay, what?ā
God has placed all the parts of the body, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.
And for this, I am glad.
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