Why?

Genesis 1:27Genesis 2:24Ephesians 5:21-33Colossians 3:18Titus 2:51 Timothy 2:9-151 Peter 3:5
These verses above are generally the most referenced passages involving gender roles in the church. Feel free to add passages that you think are relevant.
For some of us, the issue of gender roles involves studying Greek, which is often helpful and sheds light on many [...]

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How can we improve?

My dream for this blog was that it could be a safe place where all opinions about the roles of women and men in the home and church could be expressed safely, without the negativity of dialog stoppers, such as sarcasm, ridicule, insults, questioning of competency to speak, etc.
We’ve had some helpful posts and good [...]

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Separate but Equal

First, I would like to recommend Mike Aubrey’s blog for tight academic argumentation in the egalitarian domain. There is a good discussion here about how complementarians are trying to fill some logical gaps. This is something that egalitarians are very familiar with as we work through first one passage and then another and return to [...]

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My Egalitarian Summary

Well, I finally finished my (first draft of a) summary on what I believe the Bible teaches about women. It’s kind of long so I put it in my own blog Here. I did try to be brief but I don’t think I could have written less without leaving out something important. As it is, [...]

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Majoring in Submission

The Constructive Curmudgeon (Doug Groothuis) blogged today on Majoring in Submission. It’s timely to link to his post given the discussion on submission we have been having here on the Complegalitarian blog. Doug points out that a World On the Web (WoW) article left out a critical part of what his wife, Rebecca, had submitted [...]

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Schaeffer on Utopianism

What if just for one split second we were to imagine that there was an authority – submission relationship in the garden as Challies believes. Let’s do away with 1 Cor. 7 and think of what it would be like if there was only one will in the garden – the man’s. Because after all [...]

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Uncharted Waters

I’ve offered to draw up a chart comparing complementarianism and egalitarianism from the perspective of hermeneutics. In other words, I want to use the chart to examine the hermeneutic of each side by seeing how consistently they approach scripture on any given topic. For example, does a side interpret scriptures on women with the same [...]

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Challies on Submission cont.

Tim Challies published his views on submission. This is my response.

1. The order of creation is fish, birds, animals, man, woman. Quotes in the NT do not always reflect the semantic content of the OT. See Eph. 4:8.

2. Adam may represent the human race. No one submits to Adam.
3. Hagar names God in Gen. [...]

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Tim Challies on submission

Yesterday Tim Challies blogged on The Source of Submission. Egalitarians will not agree with him, but it is important to understand what he is saying. In particular, Tim believes that submission of a wife to her husband was ordained by God before Adam and Eve sinned:
the fact that women are to submit to their husbands [...]

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The Labels We Use

Have you ever noticed how much we depend on labels when dealing with differing viewpoints, and how much those labels tend to take on a life of their own? In many cases, we may choose to describe our own position with a label which we see as completely positive and to which no-one could conceivably [...]

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